Category Specialist

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Your role and responsibilities

Category Specialist for Metal fabrication will develop, plan, and implement procurement strategy focused on optimizing costs, quality, delivery, and resilient supply. Ensure execution in accordance with company procurement and supply base management instructions and procedures. Expert of market intelligence, metal fabrication, material tech and cost model. Manage frame agreement. Leading and manage cross projects within product lines.

The work model for the role is: onsite

This role is contributing to the Distribution Solutions division in China.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Leveraging the Continuous Improvement Process Sourcing process for implementing effective sourcing strategies in line with business strategy and ensuring that the supply base/suppliers have the capability and capacity to meet current and future business requirements.
• Negotiate agreements with main suppliers, and periodically renew price lists, and terms and conditions. Ensuring identification, investigation, and selection of appropriate suppliers (focusing on quality, delivery, cost, and sustainability) in accordance with company policies.
• Develop and optimize cost models for fabricated parts. Be accountable for the category budget and deliver against annual cost-saving targets. Track and report savings and avoidance. Act as the central point of communication and alignment for all product lines involved in the metal fabrication category. Build consensus for the category strategy.
• Establish and enforce procurement policies, procedures, and workflows specific to the metal fabrication category. Spend and demand analysis, analyze historical spending and forecast future demand to identify consolidation and leveraging opportunities. Market analysis and continuously monitor the metals market, index price global trade policies. Prepare and release index price guide, and prepare hedging strategy

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor of Engineering, material, or other related. +5 years of experience in Sourcing/Procurement/Supply chain for Metal
• Rich technical knowledge: Strong understanding of metal fabrication processes (machining, welding, stamping, bending, surface treatment), materials type (steel, copper, stainless), solid understanding of drawing requirements
• Leading complex and key supplier negotiation, cost and financial analysis and contract management. Index material analytic skill and basic hedging knowledge
• Leadership: Proven ability to lead without direct authority, influence stakeholders, and manage a team.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to see the big picture and translate it into a action projects list, long-term plan.
• Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical and root-cause analysis skills to resolve complex supply, quality, and cost issues.
• Extensive knowledge of working in sourcing, supply chain and/or purchasing. Advanced English Skill. Good at communication, careful, patient, with good customer service awareness

What's in it for you?

We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence. You’ll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that’s tailored to your goals. Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger. 

Benefits

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More about us
ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

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