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EL Commercial Operations Manager

Your role and responsibilities

This role directs the commercial operations activities of EL Smart Power and Smart Building products in CN, tasked with setting and profitably achieving key targets, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Develops and deploys global commercial operations strategy and processes. Accountable to ensure operational performances, lead productivity and process improvements, and meet and exceed customer's service level expectations. Leads, develop, and coaches the related Commercial Operations team and the Commercial Operations Specialists.•\tExecutes the order entry to delivery process strategy for the designated scope (CN), implementing processes, best practices, and solutions to realize the complete process from order entry to delivery and after-sales support. Implements optimization plans to improve operational excellence and customer satisfaction, alongside the order entry-to-delivery and after-sales support processes. Ensures the achievement of established targets, through oversight and defining improvement actions, as needed.•\tFocuses on the achievement of forecasting accuracy, inventory turns of finished goods, customer request on-time delivery, one order-one delivery, lead time for stock and non-stock items, aging stock, wrong delivery/transportation damages, lead time for complaints resolution and closing, and percentage of digital versus manual orders.•\tEnsures the implementation of the integrated business planning process and tools in the sales operations units (regional distribution center and/or local sales distribution warehouse) to align the demand and availability of finished goods. Establishes, supports, and maintains inventory management processes, guidelines, and best practices across the region’s sales operations units. Ensures the finished goods inventory local governance processes are properly integrated with the supplying units. Implements processes optimization to reduce delivery lead time and optimize DIH.•\tEnsures visibility on excessive stock within the region’s sales operations units and other regions. Implements common processes and best practices for sales and operations planning and purchasing in sales operations units. Implements, supports, and maintains planning and fulfilment processes and guidelines across sales operations units. Ensures the accuracy of forecasting process to ABB supply units and external suppliers.•\tImplements common processes and best practices for logistic operations to effectively control the inbound, storage, picking, value addition, and outbound of products. Ensures special documentation required by customers and customs are properly and efficiently managed.•\tContinuously monitors the third party logistic contractors’ performances versus the contractual requirements and cost-efficiency targets. Supports the region’s sales operations units in defining the new third party logistic contracts and/or modification/renewal of the existing ones.•\tCoaches and trains the sales units in developing detailed gap analysis across the sales operations and customer support processes. Provides solution to reach expected service level at optimized inventory and costs, by utilizing the value chain and lean six-sigma assessment methods and tools. Sets up monthly operational review with Sales Operations team and customers support units.

Qualifications for the role

\t10+ years manufacturing/operations managerial experience in multinational companies.\tMultiple years of related Eletrification industry professional, engineering background is preferred.\tDemonstrated knowledge and experience in market Intelligence, strategy thinking, implementation, business process improvement, and operational excellence. 6 Sigma Green-belt cetification or above is prefered;\tExcellence leadership and collabration, strong problem solving skills and take responsibility to delivery result as committed.\tCustomer focus, meets expectations, internally and externally forms partnership\tChinese fluent

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