Global Head of Product Engineering and Quality, Motion Drive Products (multiple locations)

Overview Join ABB Motion as the head of global Product Engineering & Quality, leading end-to-end product performance, reliability, and compliance across the lifecycle. You will steer the strategy and roadmap, building a high-performing, cross-border organization that enables growth and customer success. Work with R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Product Management, and Sales to translate insights into improvements and scalable processes. Drive governance, talent development, and cross-functional collaboration to advance engineering and quality excellence. Help propel ABB’s mission of energy efficiency and sustainable customer outcomes.

Responsabilità

Define and execute the global Product Engineering & Quality strategy, roadmap, operating model and organizational agenda. Own end-to-end product engineering, quality, and portfolio performance, ensuring availability, reliability, compliance, competitiveness, and continuous improvement. Lead and develop the global Product Engineering and Quality function, strengthening governance, capabilities, talent development, succession planning, and high-performance culture. Drive engineering and quality excellence through processes, technologies, standardization, scalability, and resolution of complex product and customer challenges. Foster cross-functional collaboration and resource optimization, partnering with R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Product Management, and Sales; manage budgets, investments, manufacturing support, and capacity planning.

Requisiti fondamentali

Bachelor’s or higher degree in Engineering, Business Administration or related field 12–15+ years of progressive leadership experience in engineering, quality, R&D, product management or related field Proven leadership of complex, global organizations with broad accountability for product portfolios, engineering, quality, reliability and customer outcomes Strategic and business acumen; ability to translate business strategy into functional strategy, priorities, investments and capability development Understanding of product engineering, quality management and product lifecycle; connect technical excellence with business value Strong customer orientation and ability to translate insights into product and quality improvements Proven track record in organizational transformation and global capability development (talent, succession, organizational development) Financial, stakeholder and people leadership skills; experience managing resources across cultures and geographies Strong communication, influencing and cross-cultural collaboration skills; fluent written and spoken English strong communication cross-cultural collaboration leadership product engineering quality management product lifecycle