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ABB

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This Position reports to:

Purchasing Manager


 

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to purchase materials according to required technical specifications, price, delivery schedule, and terms. Each day, you will ensure purchasing activities align with corporate purchasing policies and procedures. You will also showcase your expertise by identifying new suppliers in cooperation with the relevant category team.

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

This role is contributing to the Electrification business in Distribution Solution division at Nashik, India.

You will be mainly accountable for:

  • Initiating Purchase Orders in the system, according to the purchase requisitions and in alignment with standard procedures, and confirming delivery with suppliers, monitoring, and tracking supplier performance to PO requirements.
  • Negotiating agreements with main suppliers, and periodically renews price lists and terms and conditions.
  • Recommending frame agreements to management and executing upon approval.
  • Analyzing and evaluating bids to determine the optimal value.


Qualifications for the role

  • Degree in Electrical engineering (should be full-time)
  • Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in Purchase/Procurement, preferably in the switchgear manufacturing industry.
  • Experience in procurement of electrical commodities such as MCBs, auxiliary relays, contactors, meters, relays, CTs, PTs, Ethernet switches/converters, etc.
  • Hands-on experience in SAP PO creation, supplier follow-up, and ensuring material availability as per the manufacturing plan.
  • Knowledge of procurement, purchase, inventory management, inventory reduction, material management, PPC, and inventory analysis.
  • Knowledge of LV or MV Switchgear products and related components.


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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How we score this

Buyer at ABB scores 38 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it AI Level 1 of 4 (Little AI) on this board. The level measures how much of the work is AI, not seniority.

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