Category Manager

Category Manager

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As a Category Manager, you will play a vital role in the SCM organization within ABB Traction based in Västerås. The team is responsible for ensuring availability of materials, developing and implementing material strategies, supplier selection, supplier qualifications, and contract negotiations. Since each delivery is customer specific, you will also be involved in project specific procurements. Reporting to the Supply Chain Manager, you will be focused on improving our supply base, material cost and supplier performance

Your responsibilities

• You will be responsible for several material groups with the main task of ensuring materials for our production, improving the cost base, quality, delivery reliability and capacity
• You will create and implement supplier strategies in both the short and long term
• Develop our existing supplier base with a focus on cost, quality, lead times and capacity and onboard new suppliers
• An important part of your work will be to ensure that our suppliers comply with the laws, rules, standards, certificates, policies and directives that ABB requires
• As part of our SCM team, you will work in close collaboration with quality- and technology department and project managers
• You will have international contacts both internally within ABB and with our suppliers
• Business trips is part of the job

Your background

• We are looking for you who are driven by doing business, and creating and maintaining long-term relationships
• As a person, you are driven, result-oriented and take responsibility for independently carrying out your assignments
• Degree in engineering, economics or have equivalent work experience
• An interest in combining technical and commercial aspects
• If you have previous experience from strategic sourcing, it is a merit
• You have strong communication skills, and you speak and write English fluently

More about us

ABB Traction is a leader in traction technologies, driving innovation in rail and e-mobility. Our propulsion, auxiliary and energy storage solutions contribute to making transportation more sustainable, while saving energy every day. Our people and culture are the foundation of our success. We all together make the difference for our customers every day. Recruiting Manager, Per Pettersson, +46 725 55 82 51, will answer your questions on the position. Union representatives - Unionen: Ing-Marie B Lindgren-Turpeinen, +46 703 30 75 40, Sveriges ingenjörer: Håkan Sjöberg, +46 703 96 00 02, Ledarna: Lenny Larsson, +46 706 32 85 47. Please apply latest by the13th of October, 2023. We look forward to receiving your application (PDF documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. #LI-hybrid