**Procurement & Logistic Specialist**:
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This role involves heading up a team of procurement and logistics specialists in the Electrical Business in Mexico, implementing effective sourcing strategies to ensure that suppliers have the capability and capacity to meet current and future business requirements. You will drive excellence in the execution of purchasing and logistics strategies that aid the business by optimizing costs, quality and reliability of suppliers and supplied products.
**This position reports to**:
Procurement Delivery Manager
**Your responsibilities**:
- Utilizing the Pro-Supply global supplier relationship management platform, disseminating supplier information and finding existing high-performing suppliers to ABB.
- Heading the planning and tracking of procurement activities, cost, budgets, emerging country spending and savings forecasts.
- Overseeing buying activities to ensure that buyers minimize risk by buying in accordance with procedures and ABB guidelines.
- Leveraging CIPS category teams locally, regionally and globally to ensure appropriate supplier selection.
- Monitoring internal and supplier performance, quality and development actions while resolving issues related to costs, quality and delivery.
- Ensuring (with help from HR) that the Procurement area is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed while guiding, motivating and developing less experienced colleagues in line with succession planning.
**Your background**:
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, International Business, Administration or Supply Chain Training.
- 3 years of experience in SAP and Supply Chain.
- Demonstrated experience working with enterprise resource planning and standard operating procedures.
- Knowledge of SAP and Excel.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, with a collaborative, solution-focused approach
- Advanced English.
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