Jobs at ABB

Your role and responsibilities

• In this role, you will have the opportunity to provide comprehensive legal advice and support to ABB's operations in a specific country, through your expertise in corporate law, compliance, contract negotiation, and risk management.
• Each day, you will be responsible for mitigating legal risks, ensuring corporate governance, and driving business growth while maintaining compliance with local laws and regulations. You will also showcase your expertise by providing L&I advice to ABB management and acting as an advisor to the business stakeholders.
• The work model for the role is: hybrid
• This role is contributing to the Automation Energy Industries and Legal & Integrity in South Africa and SSA region. Main stakeholders are Country Holding Officer in South Africa, Country Holding Officer for SSA, Cluster Lead Counsel for IMEA and SCE, Local Division Manager for Energy Industries Division in South Africa.

You will be mainly accountable for:

Corporate Governance and Fiduciary tasks:

• Lead end-to-end Legal & Integrity responsibilities for South Africa and SSA legal entities, including governance, compliance, corporate secretarial work, and regulatory filings, ensuring robust corporate fiduciary compliance and adherence to ABB governance standards for South Africa and other relevant SSA legal entities and branches (including Mozambique, Angola, Uganda) and supporting legal entity liquidation processes (e.g. Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, DRC)
• Acting as a trusted advisor to the Country Holding Officer and senior leaders on governance, subsidiary corporate transactions, compliance, risk, and strategic legal matters, providing pragmatic legal support on corporate and commercial transactions
• Ensuring adherence to applicable laws, highest integrity values, and frameworks, including competition law, labor law, B-BBEE, data privacy (POPIA), cybersecurity, anti-money laundering regulations and sanctions, export controls and trade compliance
• Managing external legal advisors, maximizing in-house support and minimizing external legal cost

Commercial Contracts & Projects:

• Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial contracts including EPC, service agreements service, technology and supply contracts
• Support project tendering, execution and claims management activities, ensuring appropriate contractual risk allocation aligned with ABB policies and business objectives
• Provide clear, pragmatic legal advice that support strategic decision‑making and risk‑balanced business growth

Litigation & Disputes:

• Manage disputes and claims arising from project execution, contracts, and business operations

Integrity:

• Promote a culture of compliance, integrity and responsible risk-taking
• Identify and assess integrity risks related to corporate activities and business opportunities and transactions, implementing appropriate mitigation measures
• Deliver legal and integrity trainings and support internal investigations and integrity-related matters where required

Strategic Projects:

• Support M&A, restructuring, and localization initiatives, ensuring compliance with local regulatory requirements

Our team dynamics

• You will join a dynamic, talented, high performing team, where you will be able to thrive.

Qualifications for the role

• You have a Law degree and are admitted to practice law in South Africa
• You have a significant post-qualification experience in corporate and commercial law, ideally with exposure to compliance matters, industrial projects, and energy sector
• You have a strong understanding of South African regulatory environment
• You are familiar with governance, compliance and integrity frameworks in a multinational environment
• You are used to working in high paced and changing environment

What’s in it for you?

• We want you to bring your full self to work on your ideas, your energy, your ambition.
• You’ll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter.
• Here, your work creates an impact you can see and feel, every day. 

Benefits

• From well-being to retirement, ABB offers benefits that support every stage of your career.

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Your role and responsibilities

• In this role, you will have the opportunity to developing and deploying global customer operations strategy and processes. Each day, you will implement global processes, best practices, and solutions within a global/regional/local Sales unit to meet and exceed customers’ expectations. You will also showcase your expertise by being accountable for end of line metrics and proactively leading, developing, and coaching the Customer Operations team.
• The work model for the role is: Onsite
• This role is contributing to the Electrification Smart Power & Smart Buildings business area in South Africa / South Africa OC Countries.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Focusing on the delivery performance, time to book lead time, customer cases closing lead time, percentage of digital vs. manual orders, one order-one delivery, percentage of clean orders, and Net Promoter Score.
• Ensuring the deployment of order entry and management processes: customers master data and pricing management, orders acknowledgment, orders changes, delivery notes generation, credit limit administration, and implementation of best practices.
• Implementing pre-order booking routine control checks, identifies and classifying the root causes for pre-order bookings, and taking preventive actions.
• Leading the local implementation of the customer’s cases management program.

Qualifications for the role

• You are immersed in working with Customers, Factories and latest tools and systems such SAP, Power Bi, AI etc and the Similar Industry in South African Sub Sahara market
• You have 8 years of experience in relevant field of customer operations/logistics
• Highly adept in SAP, Excel, Power BI, AI tools
• You are passionate about around team management, customer relations, meeting deadline and innovating solutions
• Degree in Business , Logistics, Supply Chain
• You are at ease communicating to internal and external stakeholders covering sales, marketing, factories , peers, customers

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Your role and responsibilities

• In this role, you will have the opportunity to implement product marketing strategies in line with global product strategy in assigned area to meet business objectives.
• Each day, you will implement marketing activities and support Sales organization in driving sales and services for respective products. You will also showcase your expertise by driving sales efficiency by providing appropriate product knowledge information and training.
• The work model for the role is: Onsite

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Implements the product marketing strategy in the assigned area/segment, including defining and communicating product value propositions and product positioning in accordance with the global product marketing strategy.
• Achieves product marketing targets and budgets by overseeing progress regularly and defining and implementing improvement plans as needed.
• Focuses on achievement of orders and drives continuous improvement in the Net Promoter Score (NPS).
• Executes annual marketing plan in collaboration with relevant division and/or product groups.
• Develops business plans focused on driving business development for a defined market.
• Coordinates market analyses with the Sales team and defines appropriate forecasts and plans related to product marketing.
• Evaluates and shares customer research, market conditions, and competitor data.
• Oversees the sales execution for assigned products by providing relevant materials and guidance to the Sales team(s).
• Drives sales efficiency by providing appropriate product knowledge information and training (both technical and sales) to each salesperson.
• Ensure products are competitively priced and that required margin targets are achieved and maintained 
• Ensure internal and external training with customers are conducted on a regular basis

​​​​​​​Qualifications for the role

• BTech/ BEng Electrical Engineering
• 2 to 5 years relevant experience
• Experienced in industrial digital communication protocols

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• In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to business objectives through the development and deployment of innovative and effective marketing communications activities in line with global and local communication strategies, standards, and guidelines.
• Each day, you will be responsible for developing the marketing communication strategy and maintaining the positive image of the company and its brand and value proposition in the minds of the customers. 
• You will also showcase your expertise by ensuring relevant marketing communication strategy and plans align with global marketing, corporate, and country communications strategies and guidelines.
• The work model for the role is: Onsite
• This role is contributing to the Electrification's Smart Building and Smart Power divisions in Southern Africa.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Selecting relevant marketing communications tools, adapting, translating, and implementing, as required, to support sales initiatives and achieve the company’s objectives in the local business.
• Adapting and developing promotional activities using events, fairs, online communication campaigns, print media, and other communications vehicles to promote products, systems, and services across the lifecycle.
• Stimulating lead generation through advertising, sponsorship, and other promotional activities.
• Ensuring sound communication across multiple and appropriate trade media in line with the ABB communications framework to extend the company’s visibility.
• Responsible for creating, planning, and implementing the marketing (and communications) strategies for the assigned area in accordance with the business area/division marketing and sales strategy and budget.

Qualifications for the role

• You are engaged in working with relevant tools and methodologies and all relevant markets
• Ability to demonstrate your experience in / Have established skills / advanced skills / You have at least 5 to 10 years of experience in Communications and Marketing
• Marketing/communications degree
• You are at ease communicating in English