**Procurement Team Leader - Indirect material**:**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.
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**:This role involves heading up a team of procurement specialists in NEMA Motors, 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 strategies that aid the business by optimizing costs, quality and reliability of suppliers and supplied products.
**This position reports to**:Production Engineering Manager**Your responsibilities**:- Utilizing the Pro-Supply global supplier relationship management platform, disseminating supplier information and finding existing high-performing suppliers to ABB.- Heading the planning and tracking of procurement activities, cost, budgets, emerging country spending and savings forecasts.- Performs complex buying strategies to purchase and arrange timely deliveries of supplies and materials.- Resolves complex delivery, quality or other related problems with purchases and invoices.- Negotiates prices, terms and quality requirements; prepares requests for quotes and assists in the development of new supply sources; evaluates market conditions.- Overseeing buying activities to ensure that buyers minimize risk by buying in accordance with procedures and ABB guidelines.- Monitoring internal and supplier performance, quality and development actions while resolving issues related to costs, quality and delivery.
**Your background**:- Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering or related.- 5+ years of leadership experience in a procurement area.
If it was with Indirect materials is a plus.- Analysis, budget management and negotiation skills.- Integrity and following of policies, procedures, etc.- Demonstrated experience working with enterprise resource planning and standard operating procedures.- Negotiation and team worker skills.- A previous Customer Services experience is a plus.- A collaborative, solution-focused approach and strong written and spoken communication skills.- Fluent English.
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