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This Position reports to:
Business Manager - E2E

The Process Industries Division serves the mining, minerals processing, metals, cement, pulp and paper, battery manufacturing, and food and beverage, as well as their associated service industries. The Division brings deep industry domain expertise coupled with the ability to integrate both automation and electrical systems, increase productivity and reduce overall capital and operating costs for customers. For mining, metals and cement customers, solutions include specialized products and services, as well as total production systems. The Division designs, plans, engineers, supplies, installs and commissions integrated electrical and motion systems, including electric equipment, drives, motors, high power rectifiers and equipment for automation and supervisory control within a variety of areas including mineral handling, mining operations, aluminum smelting, hot and cold steel applications and cement production. The offering for the pulp and paper industries includes control systems, quality control systems, drive systems, on-line sensors, actuators and field instruments. Digitalization solutions, including collaborative operations and augmented reality, help improve plant and enterprise productivity, and reduce maintenance and energy costs.

In this role, you will be the local strategic and operational leader of Process Automation - Process Industries Division located in Sesto San Giovanni, Italy, a 20 MUSD unit with approximately 35 employees. Reporting to the Southern Europe and Africa cluster Business Manager Pulp & Paper of Process Industries, your focus will be on driving profitable growth and delivering strong operational performance across all aspects of Process Industries Business Lines operating in Italy.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the execution of the regional and/or global division strategy and providing local inputs and insights. Prioritizing and implementing business plans for driving profitability and growth, with an attitude to innovation and with focus on Service and Digital.

• Contribute to the Business Lines results by proactive collaboration with the Cluster, BL team and the other Local Divisions to achieve our common targets.

• Ensuring strong financial management and delivery of all targets* and ensuring the profit and loss margin of the Local Business Lines are achieved. (*Major KPIs: Orders, Orders gross profit, revenue, OpEBITA, cash & NWC)

• Evaluating market opportunities and identifying actions in collaboration with local sales and marketing team. Building a strong local team - engaging, inspiring and motivating employees to achieve or even stretch targets, through a transparent and open approach.

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with new and existing customers and ensuring ongoing customer satisfaction.

• Driving operational excellence across all projects/services and processes to improve productivity, quality and cost optimization, focused on delivering on targets while applying shared development models involving decentralized engineering centers or units. Living ABB's core values of safety and integrity, which means ensuring a safe working environment and caring for your team and the integrity of your business.

Qualifications

• You have more than 10 years of recent experience in Automation Solution business, preferably in industries such as Pulp & Paper and Metals with a solid knowledge of this business and related markets

• You have proven leadership experience, managing an organization or department of >15 MUSD Revenues and >20 Employees, with profit and loss responsibility.

• You are innovative around customer needs, results and quality, with proficient sales and marketing experience and/or operational and project management.

• You are passionate about people orientation, influencing, coaching and leadership with a multicultural approach.

• Master's degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, preferably in Automation & Control System. You are at ease communicating proficiency in Italian and fluent in English.

You are outgoing, open-minded, flexible, curious and action driven by nature. That curiosity helps you get to know our world better. You know how to convince and can enthusiastically take others into your story. A wait-and-see attitude does not suit you at all, because you like to take the initiative yourself. You can empathize with the customer and with your team and are bold enough to get their demands to the surface to take the appropriate actions. You thrive on working intimately with people, both customers and colleagues, and see the energy transition as an opportunity to establish the Process Industries Division as a key player in the market.

What's in it for you

As a member of the ABB Group, you can expect an exciting and challenging job with an individually tailored introductory training. You will work in agile teams where you have the opportunity to actively contribute and drive ideas forward. Our flexible work models offer you an optimal work-life balance. Our unique spirit is characterized by appreciation, communication at eye level and an informal work culture. We offer you customized training and development programs as well as exciting development opportunities within the company. Numerous other benefits (Parental Leave Program, Employee Assistance Program and many more) round off our offer.

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