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At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

ABB Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division's technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division's portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world's largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division's ABB Ability™ Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps organizations save energy and reduce CO2 emissions.

Your Role and Responsibilities

This Position reports to: Purchasing Manager

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In this role, you'll help run what runs the world by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact, as you will be accountable for:

• Analyzing purchasing data, market trends, and supplier metrics to identify cost-saving opportunities and support strategic decision-making
• Developing and maintaining dashboards and reports to track KPIs, forecast demand, and optimize inventory levels
• Initiating Purchase Orders in the system, according to the purchase requisitions and in alignment with standard procedures, and confirming delivery with suppliers, monitoring, and tracking supplier performance to PO requirements
• Negotiating agreements with main suppliers, and periodically renews price lists and terms and conditions
• Recommending frame agreements to management and executing upon approval
• Verifying external capacity of all suppliers and approaching new ones on the market and analyzing and evaluating bids to determine the optimal value

You will have the opportunity to purchase materials according to required technical specifications, price, delivery schedule, and terms. Each day, you will ensure purchasing activities align with corporate purchasing policies and procedures. You will also showcase your expertise by supporting the identification of new suppliers in cooperation with the relevant category team.

Qualifications for the Role

• Degree in Mechanical or Management Engineering
• Interest in developing your career in product engineering, supply chain or purchasing area
• Knowledge in cost analysis and financial evaluation within procurement or supply chain functions
• Knowledge of SAP and Power BI are considered a plus
• Very Good knowledge of English (level B2) and Italian, written and spoken
• Good knowledge of MS Office (excel, access, word, ppt)
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to manage different tasks, good communication skills

Benefits

Locally, you can count on:

• Competitive compensation: Attractive salary packages and performance bonuses
• Corporate welfare: Access to a wide range of services and personal well-being support
• Career development: Structured career paths, individual development plans, opportunities for internal mobility, including international roles, technical and managerial training programs, mentoring and access to global learning platforms
• Flexibility and work-life balance: Flexible working hours, hybrid work options, and a strong focus on work-life integration
• Employee Support: Free services like psychological help, wellness coaching, and emotional support for employees and their families
• Parental Leave: At least 12 weeks of fully paid leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers, promoting DEI values
• Meal allowance: Access to canteen

Why ABB

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.

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.

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