About this Category Manager role at ABB
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This position reports to:
Procurement Manager__
In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop, plan, and implement procurement strategy focused on optimizing costs, quality, delivery, and reliability of suppliers and supplied products for an assigned category or group of categories. Each day, you will ensure execution in accordance with company, procurement, and supply base management instructions and procedures. You will also showcase your expertise by recommending frame agreements to management and executing upon approval.
The work model for the role is: onsite
You will be mainly accountable for:
- For global category sourcing parts, can provide professional advice to global category manager for strategy making/optimizing, implements effective sourcing strategies in line with global sourcing strategy ensuring that the supply base/suppliers have the capability and capacity to meet current and future business requirements. Ensures all relevant parties understand strategies and execute processes accordingly.
- For local Iron casting sourcing parts, make sourcing strategy independently, evaluate and develop the supply base. Introduce new suppliers as appropriate to meet the current and future needs of the business
- Identifying, tracking and implementing cost saving actions to meet the productivity targets for the category, establish a casting cost model with knowhow of casting should cost
- Serving as the hub for new project introduction in the supply chain, bridging cross-departmental collaboration with the supply chain department, completing internal project planning / tracking / implementation, and ensuring that project cost / delivery / quality requirements are met.
Qualifications for the role
- You are immersed in Excel, PPT, Power BI and Python skill will be plus, and the Iron casting market
- You have 5~10 years of experience in Iron Casting, better in electric Motor industrial.
(OPTIONAL: working as project sourcing manager with project procurement experience. - Highly adept in the machining/mechanical category & industry would be preferred
- Excellent communication, cooperation and influencing skills when working with different senior level roles internally and externally with different suppliers
- Continuous improvement mindset with a business-driven and fact base on approach towards suppliers with a focus on building long-term relationship
- Fluent English in both speaking and writing
- Ability to handle complexity and work under pressure, travel sometimes at short notice,structured thinking, result oriented.
More about us
The IEC Low Voltage Division is a technology leader delivering a full range of energy-efficient low voltage motors, including ultra-efficient solutions such as IE5 SynRM (synchronous reluctance motors). Through a global footprint, domain expertise and rugged designs, the Division provides reliable technology that improves efficiency and productivity even in the most demanding applications.
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