ABB – Global Recruits Global Service IS Supply Integration Manager for APA / Beijing

ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 140,000 people.

Job description

Leads effective delivery of Run service integration activities across all towers and relevant country level IS service support teams for a defined set of service offerings and competencies.
Leads a global team of Tower Integration Experts operating across the global technology towers, to coordinate operational service integration activities.

Tasks
1. Service Ownership
Be accountable for the delivery of one or more defined IS Infrastructure Service Offerings for the run part of their lifecycle. Closely cooperate with consumer facing global service delivery and technology operations teams in order to mutually:
– define the content of the service portfolio in scope of the specified service offering
– Consult and influence the strategic development of Infrastructure services in scope

Within Global Infrastructure Systems (IS) provide a point of contact for a composite and cohesive end to end service offering.

2. Cross Tower Infrastructure Services and Solutions
For a defined service offering to ABBs business units and Application Management Teams deliver agreed service quality, performance and continuous improvement to ensure end-to-end delivery of ABB global IS service requirements across all towers. Hereby liaise with tower leads to drive and assist with quality assurance and eventually conduct research into infrastructure-related issues.
Contribute to proposal evaluations in order to identify potential future problem areas and make the appropriate recommendations.

3. IS Service Operations
Ensure effective interfaces between corporate IS teams which are managed by tower leads and require coordination from a business perspective.
Identify potential for improvement from an end-to-end IS Infrastructure service perspective and facilitate optimization initiatives in the relevant parts of Global Services Delivery (GSD) and Global Technology Operations (GTO).

4. Process Disciplines
Ensure Supply Integration Experts adhere to the globally defined process standards for their particular service offering with regards to the SIAM capability disciplines of
– Cross Tower Incident Control (reactive) including Major Incident Management,
– cross tower problem control (proactive / reactive),
– IS Run cross tower change coordination,
– Apply IS Run release and deployment management practices to the service offering if applicable to ensure a smooth transfer of service ownership from Infrastructure build or acquisition teams,
– Create service improvement plans and coordinate their execution,
– Multi Supplier Integration performance management including the analysis of trends compared to baselines, targets, OLAs and benchmarks and
– Infrastructure service management incl. a profound understanding of service composition and taxonomy
in order to ensure integrated delivery of IS services. Review and analyze existing process effectiveness and efficiency, and then develop strategies and concrete actions for improving or leveraging these processes across the technology towers. Provide qualified feedback about process improvement suggestions which are based on service improvement requirements via the head of SIAM into the IS process and tools department.

5. IS Standards
Proactively suggest process target optimization for supply integration experts and tower personnel; In order to continually seek to improve the services that IS delivers to the ABB business set targets for improvements in service quality and resource utilization.
Ensure compliance with ABB IS enterprise architecture standards and any other applicable ABB Group Directives and ABB Group Guidelines.
Drive a standardized way of working across IS Delivery Centers and between IS GTO Tower Managers.

6. Stakeholder Management
Clarify the goals, commitments, and attainment of infrastructure services to both the providers of information technology and the business. Hereby manage direct relationships with Global IS Tower teams, Global IS End User Services (EUS) Team, Global IS Vendor Managers and GSD.
Be profound in interacting with Application teams gaining a deep understanding what application utilizes infrastructure services in what way.
Be responsible for management of organizational change to drive IS strategy execution and to ensure service excellence at all times.
Ensure collaboration with analysts, designers, and technology tower management during the testing of new solutions and services before go life.

7. HR
Ensure (with SIAM lead and HR support) that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Manage the staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, evaluation, and disciplinary actions. Guide, motivate and develop Supply Integration Experts as direct subordinates within HR policies (including personal performance management, total rewards and career development).

8. Governance
Adhere to process framework and defined governance model. Actively suggest improvement for both on a continual basis. Help implement IT policies and procedures from the CIO office in a consistent manner across technology towers.
Where necessary, provide guidance to junior members of the team.
Act as point of escalation and arbitration for competencies defined in point (4).

Requirements
University degree in the field of computer science, information systems or business administration.

At least 10 years of experience working in IT solution or service integration.

Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

Cross Tower relationship management skills:
Strong understanding of end-user needs and requirements.
Ability to facilitate between consumer facing Global Service Delivery and Technology oriented Global Towers.
Excellent understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
Ability to communicate ideas and solutions in both technical and user-friendly language.

Personal Skills
Strong customer-service orientation
Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
Tolerance for ambiguity
Stress resistance
Networked thinking
Decision making ability
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Excellent listening and interpersonal skills
Highly self-motivated and directed
Keen attention to detail
Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks
Proficient in the English language with ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

Additional information
The preferred location for this position is to be based within the Information System Delivery Center (ISDC) in Beijing, China.

Interested in being part of our global and integrated multi supplier IT organization? If so, we look forward to receiving your full application (motivation letter, CV, diplomas, references) via our online careers tool.

In case of further questions please feel free to contact our recruitment team at +48 22 22 39758.

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