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Full-time
bachelor degree
Posted 13d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
Develop and implement sourcing strategies for trade transportation logistics to deliver cost savings and operational improvements. Manage the supplier base and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure compliance, efficiency, and sustainability.
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree in supply chain or a related field with 3-5 years of procurement experience. Proficiency in SAP Ariba, Excel, and English communication skills are essential.
Full job description
At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.
This position reports to:
Category Manager
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Your role and responsibilities
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Live ABB’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
Categories in focus are trade transportation logistics.
To develop, plan and implement sourcing strategy, and drive sourcing initiatives in order to deliver savings to target within trade transportation logistics categories.
Lead the development and execution of long-term trade transportation logistics category and sourcing strategies for ABB drives CN.
Partner closely with business stakeholders to align priorities, understand challenges, and ensure successful implementation of trade transportation logistics strategies.
Manage a wide supplier base, and develop it to fit to requirements of cost reduction, efficiency, quality, delivery and sustainability in accordance with company guidelines.
Negotiate agreements based on corporate contractual framework with suppliers, and periodically renew price lists, terms and conditions.
Work with 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 function to drive cost reductions and harmonize best practices.
Ensure robust supplier management: performance tracking, innovation programs, risk mitigation and regular business reviews.
Monitor procurement transactions to ensure accurate coding, documentation, and approval flows.
LICENSE TO OPERATE / CORE VALUES
Ensure all staff (under scope) understand ABB’s core values and group safety and integrity standards and act accordingly.
Implements and ensures compliance with the ABB code of conduct, global and local standards, tools, policies, and processes in their assigned area.
Ensures adherence to all internal and statutory regulations and policies pertaining to the teams in scope.
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
Promotes and enables 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.
Ensures that their own area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled, and directed.
Builds effective, competent, and high-performing teams.
Qualifications for the role
Bachelor's degree or above, with a preference for supply chain related majors
3-5 years of work experience, preferably with at least 3 years of supply chain procurement experience
Experience in industrial control/electrical/mechanical industries is preferred
Proficient in SAP Ariba and Excel, with a preference for familiar with Power BI
Fluent in English reading and writing, able to communicate orally
Have good communication and coordination skills
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.
Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. That's why we welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.
Ready to make an impact?
Apply today or visit https://www.abb.com to learn more about the impact of our solutions across the globe.
Helping industries outrun with our leading technologies in electrification and automation. go.abb/outrun
Industry
Automation Machinery Manufacturing
Company size
10,001+ employees
Headquarters
Zurich, ZH
LinkedIn followers
4,392,212
Total funding
$549M
ABB is a technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. The company’s solutions connect engineering know-how and software to optimize how things are manufactured, moved, powered and operated. Building on over 140 years of excellence, ABB’s more than 110,000 employees are committed to driving innovations that accelerate industrial transformation. www.abb.com
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