ABB Global Trade Operations Excellence Manager (BA Electrification) - (flexible location)

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This position reports to

Electrification Business Area Trade Manager

Your role and responsibilities

Are you passionate about trade and operational excellence? Join us as a Global Trade Operations Excellence Manager, where you will play a key role in supporting the Electrification Business Area to enhance global trade processes and compliance standards. In this role, your primary focus will be on supporting business functions in streamlining trade processes, collaborating with cross-functional teams, enhancing operational maturity, and ensuring compliance with global customs, export control, and sanctions standards. You are driven to uncover opportunities for cost savings and efficiency, while maintaining a customer-focused mindset that directly contributes to business value. With a proactive approach, you will ensure trade compliance not only protects the organization but also drives and accelerates business growth. This role you will focus on developing, improving and where possible automation of solutions that address international trade-related processes, such as: - Classification of items for customs and export control purposes - Product screening - Customs clearance operations - Country of Origin Management, incl preferential origin The Global Trade Excellence Manager is expected to have functional knowledge, high level of problem solving and analytical skills, ability to drive change and lead with a vision for improvement You enjoy driving change in a complex business environment. This role involves working with global teams across the entire internal value chain and to develop best-in-class trade compliance practices, supporting operational excellence, ensuring regulatory compliance, and providing expert guidance. The work model for the role is: hybrid ; #LI-Hybrid You will act as the point of contact for business functions globally, working with stakeholders across Supply Chain, Sales, Operations, R&D and the global/local Trade community. You will report to the Electrification Business Area Trade Manager. The ideal candidate is based in Europe. Business travel will be required occasionally (up to 20%). You will be mainly accountable for: • Analysis and mapping of current practices, using lean management tools like value stream mapping • Process Improvement: Identify areas for improvement, gain business support, and empower cross-functional teams to streamline processes and improve operational excellence and execution. • Change Management and Stakeholder Engagement: Foster a culture of continuous improvement by promoting innovation, collaboration, and accountability at all levels. • Measure Performance: Establish KPIs and metrics to measure progress, track results, and drive accountability for operational excellence initiatives. • Risk Management: Identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in operational processes and develop mitigation strategies to minimize impact on business operations. • Implementation of Automation Solutions and Best Practices: Research and implement new automation technologies, promote best practices, and support process standardization globally to ensure consistency and excellence in execution and drive a culture of continuous improvement. You will join an exciting environment with various cross-functional activities with substantial visibility and overview, working on interesting projects around innovation and having autonomy and empowerment for decision-making.

Qualifications for the role

• Minimum 10 years of overall work experience in Logistics/Supply Chain Management with 3-5 years of focused experience in Trade Compliance.
• University degree in International Trade, Supply Chain / Logistics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Expertise and proven experience in global trade, including: customs management, FTAs, and duty-saving programs, trade automation and other digital tools are highly desirable, export controls and sanctions concepts, with an emphasis on U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and U.S. sanctions programs.
• Proven track record of successfully driving operational excellence initiatives and delivering measurable results, with preference for green belt or black belt certification and project management expertise.
• Able to work in a complex business environment, with strong ability to analyze complex problems, identify root causes, and develop and implement data-driven solutions on an operational level
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, ability to coordinate, influence and lead without authority.

More about us

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