Procurement Team Leader

**Procurement Team Leader**:
**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.**:
In this role you can lead 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. Ensure execution in accordance with Company and Procurement instructions and procedures.

**This position reports to**:
Procurement Manager

**Your responsibilities**:

- Expedit, colocation and confirmation of purchase orders.
- 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.

**Your background**:

- Bachelor´s Degree in Administration, Business Engineering, International Trade or related.
- Five years of experience working in Purchasing.
- Experience in inventory execution.
- Material control & analysis (Kanban, Consumables).
- Excellent negotiation and comunication skills, Organization, Autonomus, Hands On, Team collaboration.
- Advanced English skills.
- Availability to travel.

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