Local Division Manager Energy Industries

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position reports to:

Business Manager - Commercial&Operations

ABB Energy Industries is enabling safe, smart and sustainable projects and operations for businesses across the oil, gas, chemicals, life sciences, power generation and water sectors. Driving integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify industry, we connect our people and technology to help our customers adapt and succeed. With over 50 years domain expertise, we continue to innovate and reshape traditional approaches across the energy sector with our technologies designed to improve operational efficiency, reduce risk, reduce energy consumption and waste.

In this role, you will lead the Process Automation – Energy Industries Division located in Hydra, Algiers, Algeria, managing a $20M business unit with around 50 employees. You will be the local strategic and operational leader of this local Division, reporting to Local Division Manager of the Italian Cluster of Energy Industries who is located in Italy. Your focus will be on driving profitable growth and delivering strong operational performance across all aspects of this Local Division. Your leadership will contribute to enhancing forecasting, planning, and financial controlling tools, ensuring the business is aligned with ABB's commitment to smart, safe, and sustainable energy solutions. By driving operational efficiency and adapting innovative digital technologies, you will help position the Energy Industries Division as a key player in the region's energy transition.

The work model for the role is: #hybrid #hybrid-Li

If you are extroverted, curious and action driven by nature. That curiosity helps you get to know our world better. You know how to convince and can enthusiastically take others into your story. A wait-and-see attitude does not suit you at all, because you like to take the initiative yourself. You can empathize with the customer and with your team and are bold enough to get their demands to the surface in order to take the appropriate actions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading the execution of regional and global division strategy while providing local inputs and insights, with a focus on innovation, Service, and Digital
• Prioritizing and implementing business plans to drive profitability and growth in alignment with strategic objectives
• Collaborating proactively with the HUB team and other Local Divisions to contribute to HUB-wide results and shared targets
• Ensuring strong financial management and delivering against all major KPIs, including Orders, Order Gross Profit, Revenue, OpEBITA, Cash, and NWC
• Developing the Automation market locally while expanding the drives, motors, and electrical business
• Building a strong local team by engaging, inspiring, and motivating employees through transparent and open leadership
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with new and existing customers to ensure long-term satisfaction and business continuity
• Driving operational excellence across all offerings and processes to enhance productivity, quality, and cost optimization
• Applying shared development models with decentralized engineering centers to improve project delivery and scalability
• Reviewing organizational effectiveness, performing competence assessments, and continuously upgrading team skills in line with business needs and ABB values
• Living ABB's core values of safety and integrity, which means ensuring a safe working environment and caring for your team and the integrity of your business

Qualifications:

• You proven track record in business development, strategic planning, and driving improvements in the Automation Solutions market
• You have more than 5 years of relevant managerial experience -preferably with Profit & Loss responsibility- in Automation Solutions for markets such as Water, Power Generation, Chemical & Refining and with solid knowledge of these markets
• You possess proven leadership experience as a manager of managers, with full profit and loss responsibility
• You are strongly focused on customer needs, results, and quality, with proficient experience in sales and marketing
• You have a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or Business Administration
• You have strong communication, influencing, coaching, and leadership skills, with a multicultural and people-oriented approach
• You are fluent in English, and speak French and Arabic as native languages

What's in it for you?
You'll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

Be part of something bigger. This is where progress is powered, teams initiate action, and we move the world forward together.

Run What Runs the World.

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