Division Automation Manager - Process Industries

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As Division Automation Manager - Process Industries, you’ll lead the charge in shaping the future of automation - driving strategic growth, innovation, and transformation across all business lines.

Core responsibilities:

Strategic Alignment & Target Setting

• Coordinate market and competitive analysis efforts, in collaboration with Strategic Marketing, PCP, and Strategy

• Develop and maintain an automation strategy in coordination with all Business Lines and aligned with divisional and corporate goals

• Develop and maintain a mid-segment product strategy

• Define clear automation targets per business line

• Build and maintain global dashboards to monitor KPIs across the division

Technology & Innovation

• Identify growth potential resulting from introduction of new technology (AV) and reflect in targets

• Steer automation technology development to enhance competitiveness of our solutions across differentiated market segments

• Keep alignment between Business Line/Division automation product roadmaps and PCP roadmaps in terms of content and timing

• Prepare the organization for a timely introduction of new technologies

Organizational Design & Efficiency

• Establish clear mandates, reporting lines, and decision-making structures

• Lead a global, core automation growth team to support and coordinate with Business Lines to effectively position automation in the appropriate industry verticals

Project Management & Lifecycle Excellence

• Strengthen project management capabilities within automation, being the link between Business Line needs and PCP

• Implement robust lifecycle management practices for automation solutions

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Ensure strong alignment with PCP, Digital, B&R, and GPB

• Develop and coordinate cross-functional and cross-Business Line initiatives to support automation growth (e.g. installed base management, ASM growth, modernization plans, etc.)

• Evaluate new opportunities and manage customer lifecycle risks

Change Management & Vision Execution

• Lead the transformation toward the Automation Vision

• Implement structured change management programs to support adoption

Talent Development & Sustainability

• Build a sustainable structure that does not rely solely on legacy knowledge

• Enhance automation capabilities through competence mapping and training

• Build an effective, capable, and high-performing organization

Key requirements:

To be successful in this role, you bring around 15 years of experience in a similar capacity with deep expertise in automation. Your educational background is rooted in electrical or automation engineering. You have demonstrated strength in business strategy, collaboration, market intelligence, and developing effective go-to-market approaches. You are experienced in driving customer success and ensuring regulatory and legal compliance. You know how to define and deliver on performance targets, enable sales organizations, and accelerate business development and adoption.

You are also highly skilled in change management and channel sales, and you understand how to manage operations and projects at a global scale. Your ability to work across functions and business lines while leading complex initiatives positions you as a trusted driver of transformation within a global industrial organization.

If you're passionate about shaping automation strategy on a global scale and thrive in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment, we want to hear from you.

While we are open to candidates from various locations, for optimal collaboration, we ideally seek someone located near an ABB Process Automation site.

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