**Procurement Team Lead (Planner Buyer)**:
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Leads a functional work team of Buyers, Procurement Specialists, and/or Analysts to deliver accurate and timely procurement activities like transactional purchasing, e-sourcing, data management, and reporting. Ensures execution in accordance with company and Procurement team instructions and procedures.
**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.
- Coaches and mentors, the functional work team.
- Ensures that the team has appropriate skills and competencies to coordinate the Procurement activities.
- Executes the implementation, operation, maintenance, and performance of Supply Chain systems.
- Secures full utilization of SAP Ariba platform according to relevant procedure, both related to sharing of supplier information and to finding existing high performing suppliers to ABB.
- Investigates problems, finds root causes and recommends improvement to existing and planned Procurement processes.
- 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 Procurement guidelines (knowledge management, functional training, etc.).
- Responsible for coordinating Procurement talent management and succession planning within assigned area.
**Your background**:
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial or Mechatronic Engineering, International Trade, International Business or related or related.
- Data analysis. Knowledge of Forecast and Inventory Classification.
- Experience in Operation and Development of MRP - SAP.
- Proficient in Excel.
- Nice to have previous experience in Import and export operation, production planning and Warehouse management.
- 5 years of experience in similar positions. At least 1 year as leadership.
- Availability to travel.
- Intermediate - advanced English level.
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