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ABB

Electrification, automation, and robotics solutions

Director – International Business Transformation & Strategy Execution

Business OperationsUpdated on Nov 6
Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of progressive experience in business transformation, strategy execution, operating-model design, commercial excellence, enterprise program leadership, or management consulting.
  • A bachelor's or master's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Strategy, Operations, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
  • Experience in an internal strategy, transformation, business excellence, or consulting role.
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional transformation across multiple geographies or business units.
  • Proven ability to align senior stakeholders and functions behind a shared agenda without relying on direct authority.
  • Experience translating strategy into executable roadmaps, governance, operating mechanisms, and measurable outcomes.
  • Strong business acumen and ability to connect transformation to customer value, growth, margin, cash, productivity, and organizational capability.
  • Executive communication, facilitation, and synthesis skills.
  • Ability to constructively challenge established practices and navigate ambiguity with pace and judgment.
  • Familiarity with international commercial models, customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning environments, and end-to-end customer processes.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive the NEMA International transformation roadmap aligned with the Stabilize-Optimize-Scale journey, translating strategy into prioritized initiatives with clear outcomes, milestones, and success measures while maintaining visibility of progress and risks to leadership.
  • Act as senior integrator between NEMA International and Global Business Lines, establishing governance mechanisms and cross-functional commitments that align product, portfolio, and investment priorities with international market requirements while escalating critical dependencies that constrain growth.
  • Lead resolution of systemic barriers at the interfaces between International Sales, Global Operations, IT, Finance, HR, and other supporting functions, converting fragmented issues into prioritized root-cause initiatives with clear accountability and measurable outcomes.
  • Serve as custodian of the NEMA International target operating model, ensuring organizational accountabilities, governance, processes, technology, and capabilities evolve coherently to enable profitable international growth, from stabilization through optimization and scale, while designing the organization for future growth and acquisitions.
  • Lead an executive-level International Transformation Office that manages the transformation portfolio, governance cadence, dependency view, and risk escalation, mobilizing cross-functional workstreams and intervening to resolve ownership gaps, resource constraints, or delayed decisions.
  • Lead adoption of the new international organization and ways of working through change leadership, stakeholder engagement, and capability building, while establishing a continuous improvement framework that connects frontline issues to structural business improvements and embeds continuous improvement into leadership accountability.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in an industrial, manufacturing, electromechanical, or business-to-business technology environment.
  • A recognized transformation, change management, Lean, Six Sigma, or program-management certification.

About the Company

ABB

Electrification, automation, and robotics solutions

ABB provides electrification and automation technologies for industry and infrastructure. Its products include smart building systems, electric vehicle charging, robotics, motors and drives, and factory automation software, delivered as integrated hardware and software that manage energy and automate tasks. ABB differentiates itself with a long history in power and automation, a broad global footprint, and a focused portfolio around electrification, motion, process automation, and robotics, complemented by digital services. Its goal is to help customers use energy more efficiently and work more productively, enabling sustainable and resource-efficient operations and transportation.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Zurich, Switzerland
Founded
2007

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