VP of Operations North America - Motion (MONM)

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This position reports to

Global Operations Manager

Your role and responsibilities

Regional business leader responsible for overseeing and optimizing all operational aspects within the North American region. This role focuses on driving strategic alignment, fostering customer-centric operations, and achieving operational excellence and performance to create business growth opportunities while ensuring seamless coordination across all supporting functions. The work model for the role is: Onsite #LI-Onsite You will be mainly accountable for: • Executing a customer-focused operations strategy and delivering financial and non-financial targets for manufacturing operations (e.g., safety, quality, delivery, inventory, productivity). • Ensuring a sustainable and effective value-chain, from supplier to customer and from order to delivery (products, projects, and service). • Developing and continuously improving business processes and procedures to enhance overall customer satisfaction for the area under the scope. • Conducting operational risk management to validate and improve reliability and effectiveness of business operations. • Responsible for on-time/on-margin project execution and delivering project EBIT for operations while delivering COGS savings and all other financial performance KPIs and defines and delivers the rolling fore-casts for CapEx and OpEx expenses.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's Degree (preferably in Engineering or Business) with minimum 15 years of experience in an industrial manufacturing environment (preferable with electric motor manufacturing).
• Global business acumen with a proven record in execution of defined strategic initiatives
• Strong Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SAP, WorkDay, IoT experience - preferred
• Lean Six Sigma or PMP Certifications - preferred
• Willingness to travel up to 30% (both domestic & international)
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

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