Business Manager - Connected Care

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This role sits within ABB's Robotics business, a leading global robotics company. We're entering an exciting new chapter as we’ve announced the plan for SoftBank Group to acquire ABB Robotics. SoftBank is a globally recognized technology group and investor/operator focused on AI, robotics, and next-generation computing. By joining us now, you’ll be part of a pioneering team shaping the future of robotics—working alongside world-class experts in a fast-moving, innovation-driven environment.

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Mission Statement:

To lead the profitable growth of ABB Robotics' Connected Care business in the China market—encompassing services, software, and digital solutions—by driving a cohesive commercial and operational strategy. This role is accountable for overseeing all sales and marketing activities, as well as managing day-to-day service operations, to deliver high-quality offerings that maximize customer equipment performance, uptime, and lifecycle value. The leader will accelerate business expansion through deeper installed-base penetration and a robust go-to-market strategy, including digital market places, leveraging a competitive value proposition anchored in digital connectivity and data-driven services

Main Accountabilities and Duties:

• Implements the global and local business strategy and ensures business development in the area of responsibility.
• Develops proactive strategies/initiatives to increase business profits, customer satisfaction and operational effectiveness, and managing resources and competences.
• Ensures profitable business growth through development of performance targets and leads the Connected Care unit to achieve targets.
• Evaluates the market opportunities and decides appropriate commercial activities on service portfolio to capture the opportunities.
• Drives productivity, delivery performance and cost optimization.
• Delivers operational/project targets (e.g. OTD, lead time, quality, ease of doing business, etc.) to improve net promoter score (NPS).
• Develops a customer centric and continuous improvement culture. Improves service technology, competence, field engineering tools and capabilities, business processes and procedures in line with the business strategy.
• Drives installed-base penetration and lifecycle value growth by developing data-driven strategies to identify upsell/cross-sell opportunities, leveraging equipment performance data, usage analytics, and customer insights to proactively tailor Connected Care offerings (services, software, and digital solutions).
• Drives the business growth in tight collaboration with peers from local business lines and global Connected Care management team.
• Ensures Health, Safety and Integrity as a license to operate with adequate processes and controls and sharing functional best practices and lessons learned across the organization.
• With support from HR, constantly drives people and organization development nurturing talents, engaging and motivating teams within a collaborative environment.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with 10+ years of experience in the automation industry, 8+ years of experience in leadership role
• Sound financial business understanding, experience in P&L responsibilities
• Demonstrated leadership and experience in managing large industrial equipment installed base
• Commercially savvy in Annual Recuring Revenue (ARR) based business and digital solutions
• Exposure to Physical AI is a plus
• Proven and strong communication, influencing, stakeholder management and change management skills
• Fluency in both Chinese and English, and ability to work in a multi-cultural environment

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