Head of Enterprise Platforms

ABB; Sesto San Giovanni; Híbrido; EUR 120 000 - 170 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

ABB Robotics seeks a Business Transformation Manager to lead enterprise platform strategy and governance, aligning ERP and S/4HANA initiatives with ABB Robotics' target operating model.

You will drive the business side of SAP S/4HANA transformation, ensure business objectives guide technology decisions, and partner with IS and business leaders to realize value. The role is Europe-based with a hybrid working model and significant cross-functional impact.

Qualificações

• Experience leading enterprise platform or ERP transformations in global organizations.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of enterprise business processes and data.

Responsabilidades

• Define and own the enterprise platform strategy, roadmap, and governance in alignment with ABB Robotics' strategy and operating model.
• Lead business ownership of ERP/S/4HANA and other strategic platforms, ensuring requirements are integrated before solutions are defined.
• Drive standardization to enable scalable enterprise solutions and reduce customization.
• Align stakeholders across Business Lines, Functions, and IS to drive enterprise-wide decisions and outcomes.
• Ensure business readiness, change adoption, and realization of productivity and scalability benefits from platform transformations.
• Manage platform dependencies across roadmaps and future growth initiatives to maintain alignment with long-term strategy.
• Lead and develop the Platforms team across a network of stakeholders and partners.

Conhecimentos

Enterprise platform leadership

Stakeholder management

ERP transformation

Change management

Strategic thinking

Formação académica

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business/Engineering/Technology

Ferramentas

SAP S/4HANA

ERP platforms

Descrição da oferta de emprego

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

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.

This Position Reports To

Business Transformation Manager

In this role, you will provide business leadership for ABB Robotics' strategic enterprise platforms, ensuring they enable and accelerate the company's strategy and target operating model. Working at the intersection of business transformation, processes, data, operating model, and technology, you will drive platform strategy, implementation, adoption, and value realization in close partnership with IS and business leaders.

A primary focus of the role will be leading the business side of the SAP S/4HANA transformation, ensuring technology decisions are guided by business objectives, process standardization, and long-term value creation. While technology architecture and delivery remain within IS accountabilities, you will represent the enterprise business perspective, ensuring strategic platforms support and accelerate ABB Robotics' target operating model and transformation agenda.

The location of the role is within Europe.

Working model is hybrid

Your Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise platform strategy: Define and drive the business vision, roadmap, and governance for strategic enterprise platforms in alignment with ABB Robotics' strategy and target operating model.
• Lead business ownership of ERP/S/4HANA and other strategic platforms: Ensure business requirements, processes, data, and operating model implications are fully integrated before technology solutions are defined.
• Drive standardization and simplification: Challenge unnecessary customization, legacy requirements, and process complexity to enable scalable enterprise solutions.
• Align stakeholders across the organization: Bring together Business Lines, Functions, Process Excellence, Data, and IS teams to drive enterprise-wide decisions and outcomes.
• Ensure business adoption and value realization: Lead business readiness, change adoption, and realization of the productivity, efficiency, and scalability benefits delivered through platform transformations.
• Manage enterprise platform dependencies and scalability: Own and actively manage dependencies across strategic platform roadmaps, the broader business transformation portfolio, future non-organic growth initiatives, and existing business requirements, ensuring platforms remain scalable and aligned with ABB Robotics' long-term strategy.
• Lead and develop the Platforms team: Provide leadership across a broad network of business and technology stakeholders, implementation partners, and transformation teams to ensure successful delivery.

Your Background

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Technology, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience leading enterprise platform, ERP, or business transformation initiatives in complex global organizations.
• Proven track record of delivering large-scale business-led ERP transformations; experience with SAP S/4HANA is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of enterprise business processes, data, operating models, and their interaction with technology platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional transformations spanning business and technology, while balancing strategic objectives and operational requirements.
• Strong commercial, financial, and business acumen, combined with the ability to evaluate trade-offs and drive enterprise-wide decisions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience working with senior executives and achieving alignment without direct authority.

We value people from different backgrounds.