Job Description
Director of Materials Management, ELIP CA
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. At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences.
Come and join ABB Installation Products Division, the number one manufacturer of electrification products in North America with a 125-year history of providing innovation and customer focused solutions for connecting and protecting electrical systems, as well as a unique differentiated medium voltage offering. Our products are used all around you, every day – orbiting the earth, working on Mars, on the fastest trains we ride, in the fastest cars of the world, crossing oceans, in factories producing your food, in the tallest buildings of the world, in the most modern hotels and in the walls of your home. ABB Installation Products Division, formerly Thomas & Betts, is a global leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of products used to manage the connection, protection, and distribution of electrical power in industrial, construction and utility applications. With a portfolio of more than 200,000 products marketed under more than 35 premium brand names, ABB Installation Products Division offerings are found wherever electricity is used. In this role, you will design and deploy strategies, best practices, and solutions for the Planning and Fulfillment function. Develops Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), inventory management, resource allocation, and short-term planning processes while optimizing businesses' net working capital. Working at ABB means having access to a complete benefit package, a group pension plan as well as growth opportunities within the company.
Your responsibilities
- Develop, communicate, and implement planning and fulfillment strategies aligned with the business strategy.
- Implement the deployment and improvement of S&OP and inventory management best practice processes across all ELIP CA sites in line with the business area/division strategy.
- Develop and lead end-to-end process optimization to reduce overall end-to-end lead times, inventory, including Sales In Excess (SIE) of invoicing, and customer on-time delivery, improving fulfillment and value chain visibility.
- Identify opportunities where Planning and Fulfillment can contribute value to other functions and look for processes within other functions that can improve the performance of Planning and Fulfillment.
- Provide coaching, ensure the local organizations get trained on process(es) and systems and support them in defining the specific local process(es).
- Ensure that the S&OP blueprint is defined within the division and ensure the S&OP is implemented.
- Ensure that S&OP meets the required standard and that a maturity improvement plan is implemented.
- Coach and lead the deployment of inventory management best practices globally.
- Living ABB’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues, and the business.
Your background
- Bachelor’s degree in operations management, or other relevant field of study, combined with 10 years' experience in a manufacturing environment and in a similar role.
- Team management skills.
- Experience with ERP systems.
- Analytical and methodical approach, problem-solving skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize.
- Collaborative, solution-oriented approach, with strong oral and written communication skills in both French and English. French is required. English is also required to communicate with customers outside Quebec on a regular basis.
Benefits
More about us
We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the 8th year in a row, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada’s top employers by Forbes Magazine. Also named as Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People, Canada’s Greenest Employers and in 2021 Best Candidate Experience Award (CandE Award), ABB's culture and commitment are to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and supported. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage applicants to self-identify in the application process. ABB's Military Reservist Policy offers Canada's Reserve Force members the flexibility to undergo military training and activities while maintaining job security, seniority, pay, benefits, and privileges as ABB employees, including up to 15 paid working days per year for training, as well as extended leave for operations both in Canada and abroad, ensuring seamless career integration with our nation's defense forces. #LI-Hybrid