Category Specialist Sweden

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This Position reports to:

Regional Procurement Leader (IM&S),IA Eu

Your role and responsibilities

As the Process Automation Regional Category Specialist (Sweden), you are responsible for developing the executing a pipeline of high value strategic initiatives in the country. Based on your deep subject matter expertise in the area of procurement, you are proactively identifying opportunities to deliver the overall Category performance, savings targets, and manage the local tools. The job role requires actively engaging and partnering with senior Business stakeholders, Operations and Business Procurement/Finance.

Thanks to your strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills, you ensure stakeholder alignment and support to deliver exceptional value through the implementation of Category Strategies and initiatives. You further establish effective working relationships with local and regional procurement to ensure alignment and the full realization of the benefits of the Category Strategy.

Main Accountabilities

The objective of this position is to leverage the purchasing power of ABB on a global and regional level and to achieve the set performance targets for the country:

• Accountable for the creation and application of a Business-aligned long-term Strategy for Sweden in collaboration with the EMEA Category Managers and the development of an annual pipeline of strategic category initiatives.
• Working in close collaboration with the sites on the continuous improvement of our Integrated Supply Chain Solutions program and the related RACI/business process to translate them into clear, practical guidance for key Procurement and functional colleagues in the EL sites.
• Understanding business priorities and challenges and ensuring successful realization of the Country Strategy by building strong partnerships across all stakeholders. Also being able to act with diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Ensuring a robust approach to supplier management, establishing value creation targets and reporting of supplier performance, developing innovation programs, managing supplier risks and conducting regular business reviews.
• Proactively driving/supporting demand management to reduce our overall external spend with third parties and create a true EBITDA impact – e.g. the implementation of vending machines or implementation of modern tool crib design.
• Support the roll out of catalogues and to ensure a high level of hands-free ordering and a reduction of tactical sourcing to the minimum in the countries using SAP Ariba or alternative ERP solutions.
• Ensuring full control on supplier and material master data to allow for sourcing automation and running RfQs/eAuctions in SAP Ariba.
• Ensuring full control on all the local tools.

Qualifications for the role

• University degree, with business or engineering degree preferable.
• 5+ years of in-depth strategic and/or operational procurement experience or equivalent extensive experience working in the category 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.
• Proven financial and business acumen and capability in negotiation, change management and stakeholder management.
• Business level fluency in English and Swedish.
• Strong result-orientation.

More about us

ABB Process Automation Procurement & Logistics is a key function that delivers value to ABB by leveraging market knowledge, subject matter expertise and business insights in the procurement of goods and services and the management of ABB Process Automation's third party spend. Through collaboration with our external suppliers and internal business partners, the Indirect Materials & Services team of the Process Automation Procurement & Logistics organization helps writing the future of safe, smart and sustainable Process Automation.

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