ABB - Procurement Position

About ABB

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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.

Position Overview

Reports to: Procurement Manager

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of long-term IMS category and sourcing strategies in company level
• Work closely with business stakeholders to align priorities, understand challenges, and ensure successful implementation of IMS strategies
• Negotiate agreements based on corporate contractual framework with suppliers, and periodically renew price lists, terms and conditions
• Work for process improvements and system implementations, utilizing digital tools to make it easy to buy and always ensuring transparency and compliance
• Build and manage an annual pipeline of strategic initiatives that deliver year-on-year savings and operational improvements
• Collaborate with procurement teams and key users across functions to drive cost reductions and harmonize best practices
• Ensure robust supplier management: performance tracking, innovation programs, risk mitigation and regular business reviews
• Contribute to forecasting and budget planning by providing insights on purchasing trends and consumption patterns

License to Operate / Core Values

• Ensure all staff (under scope) understand ABB's core values and group safety and integrity standards and act accordingly
• Implement and ensure compliance with the ABB code of conduct, global and local standards, tools, policies, and processes in their assigned area
• Ensure adherence to all internal and statutory regulations and policies pertaining to the teams in scope
• Be accountable for the health and safety of all employees and contractors for the teams in scope, and continuous improvement in Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) processes and integrity performance

Collaboration / Leadership

• Promote and enable collaboration in the BL, across BLs, and teams to maximize results for ABB
• Manage relationships with stakeholders in their own area of responsibility and ensure alignment
• Ensure that your own area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled, and directed
• Build effective, competent, and high-performing teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above
• More than 5 years of procurement work experience
• Familiar with indirect procurement work in factories and have rich experience in manufacturing
• Rich supplier resources and strong negotiation skills
• Fluent in English reading and writing, able to communicate orally
• Team management experience preferred

Why ABB

We Care

At ABB, we care about our people and their stories. We create safe, fair, equitable and inclusive working environments in which our people can succeed and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or cultural, religious or social background. Diverse teams make us stronger. ABB is also committed to a high standard of integrity in everything we do.

We Grow

We help our people succeed and develop, and we empower them to create their own careers at ABB. Our benefits, reward and development programs encompass a wide array of offerings.

Working at ABB gives you the opportunity to contribute to a healthier and more prosperous world. Add to your story by joining a passionate team, focused on pushing the boundaries of technology to drive performance, shape new business models and find new ways of working that benefit our customers, partners and society. We want you to be proud of being part of ABB.

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