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Location: Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Overview
At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.
This position reports to the Global Planning & Fulfillment Manager and contributes to the Measurement & Analytics Instrumentation Business Line globally. In this role, you will support the development of the planning and fulfillment related processes, skills and tools with a specific focus on demand planning and inventory management processes.
You will help improve business line performance by providing overall sales and operations inventory control and support to improve customer on-time delivery while reducing net working capital and inventory costs. You will generate demand plans and finished goods rationalization in close coordination with relevant functions, facilitate the creation of supply plans, measure, report, and drive improvement of demand planning accuracy and inventory alignment to plans. You’ll also design and implement processes to streamline the end‑to‑end planning and execution of customer orders in collaboration with sales and manufacturing units.
Key Responsibilities
* Continuously improve the Sales and the Operations Inventory Control practices in concert with cross‑functional peers in Value Streams and Supply Chain.
* Design, deploy, and lead an inventory management governance across the Business Line to properly monitor and support inventory optimization by all units.
* Coach and lead the deployment of inventory management best practices globally in line with division/business line objectives.
* Support optimal suppliers capacity planning and execution by providing process guidance and facilitating material demand forecasting provision.
* Support on‑time delivery improvement and manufacturing lead time reduction by assuring optimal inventory levels are available.
* Guide and coordinate the cross‑functional interaction within sales, operations, product lines aimed at continuous creation/review of demand plans. Consolidate and analyze all data pertinent to demand/supply/financial planning to provide a solid basis for SOP decision‑making.
* Support the enhancement and deployment of demand planning processes as part of business line sales & operations planning.
* Support the creation of supply plans to support demand fulfillment and drive the optimization of inventory levels aligned with demand plan.
* Work with factories teams to ensure the local materials procurement plans and capacity plans are aligned with product sales demand.
* Collaborate with local teams to assure material planning strategies and methods are aligned and coherent with market requirements and company targets.
Key Requirements
* Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain management, business or related disciplines.
* 10+ years of experience and track record in operations planning and supply chain management in global complex companies, preferably in industrial automation, automotive, and aerospace.
* Strong cross‑functional team collaboration skills.
* Proven experience in planning, managing, and tracking improvement activities.
* Advanced knowledge of SAP ERP operations modules.
* Highly proactive and results‑driven attitude, strategic approach to decision‑making in a global perspective.
* Experience in a highly international and multi‑cultural environment.
* Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
* Availability to travel is required.
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