Cary, NC

T&E Regional Front Office Lead

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T&E Regional Front Office Lead will represent the T&E organization across ABB Business Areas in the region and you are the face to the customer, being the contact point for any T&E related matter.

This position reports to

Travel & Expenses Manager

Your responsibilities

• Collect business needs and internally connect with T&E teams to develop the proper solutions
• Handle questions related to T&E performance from the Business and Country Management and propose improvements internal and externally
• Support on establishing Performance and KPI Measurement Systems and reporting
• Applying T&E guidelines, best practices, standards, and trainings in the geography
• Supporting the implementation of T&E in the country
• Ensure consistency and alignment between business lines in the region on policy and process implementation and compliance
• Track changes and develop expertise on legal and statutory requirements in relation to T&E to make sure policies and processes are compliant
• Acting as point of contact for Policy Owners, Internal Control, and Internal Audit within the country
• Acting as escalation point for the business, countries and T&E Audit team for complex escalations as well as helping to reach an agreement
• Tracking T&E program compliance and raising non-compliance with focus on non-travel-related spends discovered during audit or analytics
• Keeping the Business and Country Management informed about SLA, KPI and user satisfaction surveys
• Work in collaboration with all T&E teams to close gaps for ABB Businesses and deliver the expected service quality
• Acting according to ABB’s code of ethics, OHS guidelines and other compliance requirements

Your background

• Bachelor degree and 6+ years of related experience required.
• People management and leadership experience required.
• Travel up to 30% required.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a global matrix organization including managing people globally and regionally highly preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management experience and the ability to interact with different levels of the stakeholder high preferred.
• Advanced communication skills including fluency in English (required) and other languages preferred.
• Strong customer focus and problem solving skills along with the ability to liaise with operational teams, translating complex problems into actionable operational action highly preferred.
• Candidates must have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the USA

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Accident insurance
• Wellbeing program

More about us

ABB Drive Products is a technology leader serving industries, infrastructure and machine builders with world-class drives and softstarters. With our products, global scale and local presence, we help our customers to improve energy efficiency, productivity and safety. Our people and culture are the foundation of our success. We all together make the difference for our customers every day.

We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.

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