Category Specialist

Reporting to:
Category Manager
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.