Solution Owner- SAP Manufacturing & Supply Chain at ABB

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This position reports to:

IS Manager

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Your role and responsibilities

Within our Motion Drive Products (MODP) division, we are looking for a Solution Owner to own and drive global Manufacturing & Digital supply chain landscape, covering SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM/MES), and future connected functions enabling integrated factory and supply chain operations.

In this role, you will be accountable for end‑to‑end platform/solution ownership — ensuring stability, reliability, performance, and continuous improvement across manufacturing, and logistics execution processes used in MODP and MOHP, Drives sites. This is a high‑impact role shaping digital manufacturing and logistics capabilities.

The position will be located in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki, Finland.

This role is contributing to the Motion Drive Products (MODP) & Motion High Power, Drives (MOHP) globally with main stakeholders in operations teams, IS and application teams.

The work model for the role is: hybrid

You will be mainly accountable for:

Platform Ownership & Governance:

• Own the global lifecycle, roadmap, and governance of SAP DM (MES) and related supply chain and logistics execution platforms

• Act as the single accountable owner in global MES and supply chain governance forums

• Ensure compliance with ABB IT, cybersecurity, integration, and data standards

• Align MODP/MOHP architecture with Motion-wide standards in collaboration with architects and application managers

Technical & Operational Leadership:

• Ensure stable and resilient operations across all MODP and MOHP manufacturing sites

• Drive end-to-end integration reliability with SAP ECC/S4, shopfloor, OT/IoT, edge, and cloud platforms

• Lead regular reviews of risk management, disaster recovery, and business continuity with IT teams, application managers, and service providers

Service Management & Vendor Oversight:

• Define, monitor, and optimize SLAs, KPIs, and operational performance

• Manage global AMS vendors, SAP partners, and support teams

• Provide escalation support for critical production incidents

• Ensure supplier quality, consistency, and alignment with ABB Motion standards

• Coordinate incident management, issue resolution, and continuous improvement with external partners

Deployment, Adoption & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure operational readiness for new site deployments.

• Own Change, Release, and Deployment Management, including risk assessment, CAB participation, release planning, cutover, and post‑implementation reviews.

• Capture operational insights to continuously improve system reliability and business outcomes.

Qualifications for the role

• Extensive experience with MES platforms, preferably SAP, and manufacturing operations

• Deep knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, with a focus on manufacturing and digital supply chain capabilities

• Demonstrated history of managing global enterprise applications, integrations, and cloud/edge architectures

• Experience leading AMS models, and multi‑site operations

• Ability to manage mission‑critical, high‑availability systems in complex manufacturing environments

• Fluent communication skills with various stakeholders and multinational teams

• You are fluent in English, both written and spoken

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial IT, or similar discipline

More about us

ABB Drive Products serves the industries and infrastructure segments with world-class drives and programmable logic controllers (PLC). With its products, global scale and local presence, the Division helps customers to improve energy efficiency, productivity and safety.

Our culture and benefits reflect our values: courage, care, curiosity and collaboration. The most appreciated benefits according to our personnel are at the moment e.g. annual performance bonus, employee share acquisition program, continuous learning opportunities, and wellbeing and family benefits. We have a hybrid working model.

For more information contact IS Manager Jukka Itkonen +358 50 3326781

Interested in joining the crew? Apply for the position by May 17, 2026. We look forward to receiving your application.

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