**Procurement & Logistics Specialist**:
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This role involves heading up a team of procurement and logistics specialists, implementing effective sourcing strategies to ensure that suppliers have the capability and capacity to meet current and future business requirements.
You will drive excellence in the execution of purchasing and logistics strategies that aid the business by optimizing costs, quality and reliability of suppliers and supplied products.
**This position reports to**:
Procurement & Logistics Manager
**Your responsibilities**:
- Manages execution and tracking of procurement activities within the team, while ensuring quality of delivery service at improved transactional cost.
- Ensures buyers minimize risk regarding quality and financial exposure by buying in accordance with quality and commercial procedures and in accordance with Company guidelines.
- Proposes improvements to Standard Operating Procedures wherever opportunities for optimization are detected.
- Coaching and mentoring Coaches and mentors the functional work team.
Ensures that the team has appropriate skills and competencies to coordinate the PL activities.
- Executes the implementation, operation, maintenance and performance of Supply Chain systems within the GBS Procurement Center.
Secures full utilization of Pro-Supply global supplier relationship management platform according to relevant procedure, both related to sharing of supplier information and to finding existing high performing suppliers to ABB.
- Problem solving Investigates problems, finds root causes and recommends improvement to existing and planned PL processes.
- People leadership and development Ensures (with HR Manager support) that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed.
Guides, motivates and develops direct and indirect subordinates within HR policies and Group Procurement & Logistics excellence guidelines (knowledge management, functional training, etc.).
Responsible for coordinating PL talent management and succession planning within assigned area.
**Your background**:
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, International Business, Administration or related.
- Demonstrated experience working with enterprise resource planning and standard operating procedures
- Knowledge of SAP and Excel.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, with a collaborative, solution-focused approach.
- 1-2 years of experience in SAP and Supply Chain.
- English Advanced Level.
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