Procurement Business Partner - Indirect Material and Services at ABB

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You will be working as Procurement Business Partner - Indirect Material and Services and will be the part of Process Automation business area for IA - Lead Country management division based in Longmeadow, South Africa. In this role you will be reporting Marco Talassio and will be responsible to actively engaging and partnering with senior Business stakeholders, Finance, HR, Operations and Procurement for the Country staff and from the key PA sites in South Africa and establish effective working relationships with local and regional procurement to ensure alignment and the full realization of the benefits of the identified opportunities and improvement initiatives

Your responsibilities

• Creating and applying of a business-aligned long-term category and sourcing strategy for the country in scope, developing of an annual pipeline of strategic category initiatives leading to Y-o-Y relevant savings (CR & CA) and closely collaborating within the eco-system of procurement professionals located in EMEA to drive results such as cost reduction in a proactive and strongly result-oriented manner
• Understanding business priorities and challenges and ensuring successful realization of the category strategies by building strong partnerships across geographically dispersed stakeholders and engaging with local procurement and being able to interact with diverse cultural backgrounds
• Proactively driving/supporting demand management to reduce our overall external spend with third parties and for positive impact on bottom line – e.g. total workforce management, energy efficiency, utility bill management or implementation of vendor machines in the production sites (Integrated Supply Chain Solutions)
• Working closely with suppliers and local procurement and other relevant functions on the implementation and further improvement of 3rd party risk management solutions such as data privacy or overall supplier qualification programs
• Ensuring a robust approach to supplier management, establishing value creation targets and reporting of supplier performance, developing innovation programs, managing supplier risk and conducting regular business reviews
• Supporting the roll out of digital procurement tools such as Ariba guided-buying, Fieldglass, punch-out catalogues and the Amazon Business marketplace to ensure a high level of hands-free ordering and a reduction of tactical sourcing to the minimum in the countries using SAP Ariba

Your background

• Bachelor’s Degree- Business or engineering degree
• Minimum 10 years of in-depth strategic procurement experience or equivalent extensive experience working in the categories for which the role is intended to support, excellent communication and project management skills with an ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams and deliver complex strategic initiatives, in a truly global, fluid, interactive environment
• Fluency in English language is mandatory
   

Benefits

• Retirement plan

More about us

Our Process Automation business offers a range of solutions for process and hybrid industries, including our industry-specific integrated automation, electrification and digital solutions, control technologies, software and advanced services, as well as measurement & analytics, marine and turbocharging offerings. Process Automation is #2 in the market globally.

Based on its deep domain knowledge, experience and expertise in delivering world-class automation products, systems and solutions, a wide area of complimenting digital and collaborative solutions across applications and sectors, the Process Automation business helps customers remain competitive, improving their ROI and running safe and productive operations