Regional Sustainability Manager - Motion Business - MEA Region

Job Description

Regional Sustainability Manager, Motion Business, MEA RegionTake 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. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences At ABB, we embed sustainability in everything we do. ABBs 2030 sustainability strategy aims to address the worlds greatest challenges and contribute to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to which ABB Motion is strongly championing. In the current ABB operating model, Divisions are fully accountable for executing sustainability strategy and achieving goals set. The local Motion organizations - both at Regional and Country level - have the critical role to drive and promote sustainability awareness customers and local stakeholders, monitor and contribute to local sustainability trends, and internally support ABB divisions within the human rights due diligence process. You will be working as Regional Sustainability Manager, MEA Region, and will be part of Motion Business Area for system drives division based in either Dubai, UAE or Riyadh Saudi Arabia. In this role you will have a critical and important mission to establish the most suitable functions set-up to drive and implement sustainability in the region based on local market needs and opportunities. You will also need to develop and build networks in a professional way to get connected to the right sustainability stakeholders at customer base. Build a network with sustainability managers from key customers and transfer customers sustainability roadmap/activities into our country plans and provides feedback to our portfolio roadmap. Further you will be working in very close collaboration with sales teams / Local Sales Units (LSUs) across the region to assure that a tailored sustainability message is part of our value proposition to customers. Your responsibilities

• Leading integration of sustainability into business strategy for the region and LSUs (Local sales units) by setting priorities, initiatives, and resources, in alignment with ABB sustainability strategy and global motion sustainability function, applying in-depth sustainability knowledge to coach and advice business leaders (Regional Management Team & Country Motion Managers)
• Following local sustainability trends and flag / advice on any actions required, building, and maintaining the sustainability function within the region and LSUs, based on the needs of the local markets and in line with the broader motion sustainability governance setup, leading the regional sustainability agenda in alignment with the countries, collaborating with other Business Areas within the region as needed.
• Reviewing and further refining existing sustainability KPIs, adapting the KPI set for the region and setting targets, accordingly, ensuring targets and KPIs are clear and broken down to relevant business levels (Region, Country, Local division, Site) and followed up on regular basis, reporting on performance towards regional management team & country motion managers.
• Working closely with local motion managers to identify, defining, and following up the business sustainability plans and supporting the implementation in markets / countries where we operate, working closely with the right stakeholders locally, regionally and on global level to drive our sustainability agenda at all levels.
• Driving behavioral change to continuously improve sustainability culture and facilitating the sharing of best practices both internally among countries, and externally with peers, customers, and competitors, maintaining and further developing sustainability related competency through continued professional development opportunities.
• Engaging external and internal stakeholders (regulators, industry associations, universities, local communities, etc.) to raise awareness, gain commitment on regional sustainability efforts and position motion in local markets on sustainability, identifying in collaboration with other functions potential sustainability partnerships and business opportunities.
• String engagement with key customers and their right stakeholders on sustainability to outside-in view on how we need to strategically act to drive our suitability agenda in line with market and customer expectations.

Your background

• Bachelors degree - Electrical Engineering/Automation
• 10+ years of proven relevant experience, experience on sustainability-related topics (Energy Efficiency, decarbonization, green initiatives etc) is an advantage.
• Fluency in English language is mandatory, and Arabic is an advantage.

Benefits

• Retirement plan

More about usABB System Drives is a global supplier of high-power, high-performance drives, drive systems and packages for industrial processes and large infrastructure applications. With our industry leading technology and global support, we help our customers, partners and equipment manufacturers with asset reliability, performance improvement and energy efficiency in mission critical applications. Our people and culture are the foundation of our success. We all together make the difference for our customers every day. Work model: on site #LI-onsite

Keyskills :
Energy Efficiency green initiatives

About Company

ABB Ltd (German: ABB AG, French, Italian, Romansh: ABB SA),formerly ASEA Brown Boveri, is a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Västerås, Sweden, and Zürich, Switzerland.operating mainly in robotics, power, heavy electrical equipment, and automation technology areas. It is ranked 341st in the Fortune Global 500 list of 2018 and has been a global Fortune 500 company for 24 years.Until the sale of its Power Grids division in 2020, ABB was Switzerland's largest industrial employer.ABB is traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zürich, Nasdaq Stockholm and the New York Stock Exchange in the United States.