Category Specialist

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.

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