Machine Automation - Division Operations Manager

Your role and responsibilities

• The Global Operations Manager will transform and optimize the company's global operations. This strategic position involves developing and implementing operational strategies to fulfill organization targets, collaborating with the executive team to support business growth, and promoting operational excellence through continuous improvement initiatives. The role requires a consistent focus on efficient production, supply chain management, and collaborating with R&D to ensure cost-effective and innovative solutions.

• This position will be responsible for overseeing sourcing, production, logistics, quality, and compliance functions, ensuring seamless supply chain and production processes. This includes enhancing product and service quality to meet customer expectations, overseeing HSE, sustainability, and regulatory compliance, and leveraging technology to enable smart operations.

• The Global Operations Manager will also be responsible for financial oversight, cost transparency, and ensuring compliance with relevant laws and standards.

• Secure right global/regional footprint structures and capacity for growth, including “make or buy” decisions.

• The role also involves promoting a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, cultivating and attracting skilled team members, and optimizing cost structures and operational efficiency.

• The position holder will guide a large operations team, promoting collaboration across divisions and functions to facilitate steady progress. This person will manage stakeholder relationships, ensure organizational effectiveness, and oversee change management initiatives.

• Accountable to build an effective, capable and high-performing organization, including talent development, review organizational effectiveness, driving competence assessments and continuous skill-upgrades

Location: The target working location for this position is Eggelsberg, Austria, where the core team is based. Candidates located elsewhere in the European Union may be considered only if they are able to spend a significant amount of time working on-site at the Eggelsberg HQ. Regular physical presence at the headquarters is a key requirement for successful collaboration.

Our team dynamics

• 4 direct reporting functional organizations ( Planning, Sourcing, Factory, Projects) and a growing organization underneath.

• Position is a key player in the Division Management Team, reporting to the Division President of Machine Automation

Qualifications for the role

• The role requires a strategic thinker with advanced analytical skills, capable of crafting and formulating global operational strategies.

• Experience of managing a global operations organization, significant global projects- or programs within a well-established manufacturing or automation company.

• Experience from automotive or electronics industry is considered a beneficial qualification.

• Knowledge of managing an organization under transition focusing on operational excellence, process improvement, and globalization.

• Effective leadership and communication skills, capable of problem-solving and driving performance actions effectively, while inspiring a large team and guiding senior stakeholders.

• Experience in financial oversight, including budget management and cost transparency.

• Devotion to maintaining high-quality standards and ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

At B&R – the ABB Machine Automation Division and a member of the ABB Group, you can expect an exciting and challenging job with an individually tailored introductory training. You will work in agile teams where you have the opportunity to actively contribute and drive ideas forward. Our flexible work models (e.g. flextime, hybrid) offer you an optimal work-life balance.

Our unique B&R spirit is characterized by appreciation, communication at eye level and an informal work culture. We offer you customized training and development programs as well as exciting development opportunities within the company. Numerous other B&R benefits (Parental Leave Program, Employee Assistance Program and many more) round off our offer.

ABB's Machine Automation Division, also known to our customers as B&R, is an innovative automation company headquartered in Austria with additional offices around the world. B&R is part of the ABB Automation Business Area. As a leading global provider of automation solutions, B&R develops, produces and sells industrial electronics, software solutions and mechatronic solutions as well as technologies for machine and factory automation. Since 2020, B&R's automation portfolio has also included Codian brand delta robots. With its innovative solutions, B&R sets new standards and consistently exceeds its customers' expectations.

We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.