Hub Operations Director - Energy Industries

ABB Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.; Selangor; On-site; MYR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multinational corporation located in Malaysia is seeking a Hub Operations Director for its Energy Industries Division. The role requires defining and improving customer-focused operations strategies, managing a sustainable value chain, and leadership in operational excellence. Candidates should have at least 10 years of operation management experience in international settings and a degree in engineering or finance/business administration. The position offers various benefits including education support and performance incentives.

Benefits

Dental

Education support

Medical

Performance incentives

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in Operation management.
• Experience working in international environments and managing stakeholders.
• Excellent leadership and organizational abilities.

Responsibilities

• Define and improve customer-focused Operations strategy.
• Accountable for effective end-to-end value chain management.
• Establish governance mechanisms for major programs.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership skills

Data analysis

Negotiation skills

Change management

Communication skills

Education

Degree in engineering or finance/business administration

Job description

Hub Operations Director - Energy Industries

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 position reports to: Hub Division Manager, PAEN, Asia

Location: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Your role and responsibilities

• Responsible to define, align, drive, and continuously improve customer‑focused Operations strategy in alignment with regional business strategy.
• Accountable for a sustainable and effective end‑to‑end value chain, from supplier to customer and from order to delivery.
• Responsible for establishing effective operations planning processes for the regional organization and is accountable for achieving the desired outcomes.
• Accountable for defining safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and productivity targets for Operations.
• Responsible for defining project execution processes and assessing local project execution teams.
• Accountable for the effective deployment of the regional organization quality strategy. Responsible for quality assurance, quality control, and the implementation of an integrated quality management system across the regional organization.
• Accountable for the development and continuous improvement of business processes and procedures and of the overall customer satisfaction. Champions a culture of continuous improvement by deploying a set of continuous improvement competencies and promoting transparency to monitor progress within their own area of responsibility.
• Establishing governance mechanisms for major programs, to drive and ensure compliance for the regional organization.
• Establishing management process(es) that align installed capacity with customer demand and workload effectively.
• Accountable for operational risk management, validates and improves reliability and effectiveness of business operations.

Qualifications for the role

• Degree in an engineering discipline or finance/business administration.
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in Operation management for system delivery projects with multi‑scope, leadership experience managing project portfolios.
• Experience in working in international environments with different cultures and languages, and managing stakeholders of varying management levels.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, good at leading and developing people and change.
• A strong and good leader, developing processes and people. Good cultural understanding, collaborative approach with excellent communication skills, establishes good working relationships. Structured, results‑oriented, positive, proactive, takes ownership.
• Excellent leadership, organizational abilities, and the ability to translate business strategy into operational achievements.
• Proficient in managing organizational change, risk, and opportunities successfully.
• Outstanding data analysis, reporting, negotiation skills, and excellent written and oral communication. Strong people skills.

More about us

The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalise and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonise. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division’s goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of domain expertise delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimising waste for customers, from project start‑up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle.

Perks and benefits

Dental Education support Medical Performance Employee Incentive Program Scheme