Local Business Line Manager

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This position reports to:

HUB Manager Europe LVS

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Your role and responsibilities
In this role, as Local Business Line Manager for Low Voltage Systems (LVS) you will be responsible for the Profit & Loss, operational performance, business growth and strategy implementation for the Local Business Line.

The work model for the role is: Onsite

This role is contributing to the Low Voltage Systems, Smart Power Division, Electrification Business Area in Brno/Blučina, Czechia.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Implement the Division and Global Business Line strategy in the LBL, ensure profitable business development, including profit and loss (P&L), in domestic and allocated markets.
• Participate in Local Business Line strategy development and deployment as per Global Business Line (GBL) strategy.
• Develop proactive strategies to increase customer satisfaction, business profits (EBITA) and operational effectiveness.
• Ensure achievement of established targets by overseeing progress and defining improvement actions as needed.
• Focus on achievement of operating cash flow, project on-time and on-cost, Requested On-Time Delivery (ROTD), improvement in project margin in execution, Transactional Net Promoter Score (TNPS), Productivity and cost reduction.
• Drive the relocation and start-up of the new ABB LVS factory in Blučina, Czech Republic, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal impact on operations, customers, and employees.
• Manage business growth by scaling production capacity, resources, and operational efficiency to support increasing market demand.
• Implement localization plan and develop Extended Workbench Partners (EWB).
• Execute business unit/business line quality strategy. Drive quality improvement through target setting, monitoring, and benchmarking to continuously improve processes.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with new and existing customers to ensure ongoing customer satisfaction. Ensure that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed.

Qualifications for the role

• Minimum 10 years of experience preferably in similar Industry, minimum 2 years managing P&L responsibility in a dynamic and complex environment.
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical Engineering or Manufacturing engineering.
• Ability and confidence to work in a multicultural environment.
• Experience in project business with end-to-end responsibility in execution of project business (i.e. engineering, project management, supply chain, manufacturing and quality)
• Strong leadership skills.
• Solid managerial experience that will let you manage relationship with internal and external stakeholders.
• Result oriented and setting high standards of quality in own work
• You are at ease communicating in English and have basic knowledge of Czech
  

Benefits
We also offer our employees the following benefits:

• 25 days of vacation 
• Shorter working hours – 7.5 hours per day 
• Company car for private purposes
• Contribution to the benefits portal (2-3% of monthly salary) 
• Opportunity for further career growth in the Czech Republic and worldwide 
• Opportunity for education – internal/external professional courses, language courses, and conferences 
• And other additional benefits

More about us

ABB Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division’s technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy
transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division’s portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world’s largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division’s ABB Ability™ Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps organizations save energy and reduce CO2 emission.

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