As a Country Managing Director based in Casablanca, Morocco you will be responsible with the support of the hub management for serving the divisions to achieve their goals. Driving the customer-focused collaboration and to enhancing demand order growth by helping ABB win cross-BU orders. Collaborating with the global and local business lines to develop targets for profitable growth in the countries that are in line with the Group and division strategies. Providing business-oriented, cost-efficient and high-quality shared services. Ensuring that all applicable legal, fiscal and internal control requirements are met. Acting as the key local spokesperson for ABB toward external local stakeholders such as the authorities, media, unions and academia. Supported by the group functions, you will be an active mandate to influence and support the divisions locally. The key role in making sure that the local efforts of the business lines are in line with strategy, executed effectively, coordinated on a group level, and integrated into ‘One ABB’.
Your main responsibilities in this role will include:
• Understanding the business know-how, market expertise, and standing in the community and are expected to actively support and help the divisions in the execution of their local activities. This involves everything from back-end operational issues to front-end sales and marketing.
•The Profit & Loss is within the business line, while not having the ultimate control on the divisional P&L, you will have some influence on top- and bottom-line success and shares the overall responsibility that local division budgets are met. Involving in the divisional budgeting processes.
•Running the Support Functions you will lead the centralized country HR, finance, legal, communication and similar functions.
•Deciding that some of the centralized resources may be dedicated to certain divisions in order to enable building up deeper know-how and relationship, but he will still be held responsible.
•All local group functions will report to you and you will directly interact with the ABB group functions and closely coordinate their local organization with group requirements, e.g. regarding the group initiatives on ‘One Simple ABB’, Sarbanes-Oxley, or ABB People Strategy.
• Responsible for the support functions and expected to run this cost center in a cost-efficient way and according to budget.
•Integration into One ABB , you will be responsible for coordination and integration of all local operations: from sales and after-sales service organizations, including group accounts and key accounts, to important operational decisions within local divisions.
• Creating an ABB culture in country organization.
• Legally liable person for ABB’s business in a given country. You and your board carry the ultimate risk as it concerns compliance to local laws and regulations.
• Acting as the key local spokesperson always, whenever someone of the local organization is required to represent ABB to the local authorities, unions, academia, press, investors, and similar constituencies, the task is with the country manager – or his specific delegate.
•Coordinating the local communication and PR activities in line with group standards and divisional requirements.
•Overall responsible for implementation of Group initiatives and policies in the country. And as leader of the team of local Group Function Managers, has primary responsibility to ensure compliance with Group directives and instructions and is ultimately responsible for timely and qualitative fulfillment of tasks and assignments mandated by the Group.
Requirements:
As the ideal candidate, you should have BSc. Degree in Business Administration or Commerce field plus Master of Business Administration from an international university with minimum 15 to 20 years of prior work experience in multinational companies and with local market knowledge. You should possess People management experience, leading, developing and motivating an organization of 20+ people with proficiency in spoken and written English and French languages are required.
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