**Associate Project Manager**:
**Take your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences.**:
Take your career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ, ability, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrate individual differences.
**This position reports to**:
Customer Support Manager
**Your responsibilities**:
- Primary customer contact for day-to-day operational aspects of project scope.Effectively communicate and negotiate change orders for margin enhancement.
- Manage and analyze project profitability, revenue, margin bill rates, and utilization.
- Coordinate/perform the order processing (from SPINE to SAP) and also into SAP Torque.
- Ensures a clear understanding of the project contractual requirements by the project team.
- Identify and suggest improvements to process and procedure.
- Provide and track monthly forecast (financials).
- Using ABB value pairs increase overall organization effectiveness.
- Lead the contract review of new projects and get the definition of the scope previously to the project initiation.
- Be the point of contact between the customers in the USA and the factories located abroad.
- Resolve invoice disputes by working with the respective functions, including the customer.
- Create and execute project work plans to meet changing client needs and requirements at various customer work sites.
- Coordinate directly with scheduling, operations, quality, and shipping to ensure that the orders are completed and shipped on time.
- Develop a Microsoft project schedule to track the execution of the projects with multiple milestones and complex execution.
- Monitoring several small projects with a value of around 15MUSD yearly, including products that are obsolete or out of the market.
- Ensure the project follows the best practices and company policies to lead to a successful close-out and on-time delivery.
**Your background**:
- University degree preferably in electrical/energy/mechanical engineering with experience in Electrical Distribution business is preferred.
- 3 years of experience in an engineering or project management position.
- Highly Analytical / Clear Thinker with Proven Project Management skills, including creative issue resolution.
- Proven leadership skills and ability to effectively manage a matrix team / organization.
- Strong organizational skills with high attention to detail and sense of urgency in dealing with tasks.
- Ability to interface and build strong relationships with customers and management at various levels.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including proficiency in English.
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