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Global R&D Manager – Controls, B&R Automation

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This position reports to

R&D Department Lead

Your role and responsibilities

As the R&D Manager Controls, you are responsible for the organizational efficiency and to foster an inclusive and open-minded performance and learning culture for our team delivering market leading automation solutions in the field of PLCs, IOs, Functional Safety and Machine Vision. Your responsibilities: • Leading a multinational team that supports the strategic goals of the company • Creating an inspiring and efficient organization and working culture. • Ensuring a competitive competence mix and a continuous learning spirit. • Driving and enhancing our corporate R&D processes and interfaces following agile principles while respecting industry standards and regulatory requirements. • Identifying and managing synergies with other R&D teams across the company • Representing our department to internal and external stakeholders, including your peers in the organization, customers and other ABB entities. • Leading all HR processes within our team and being the sparring partner for our team leads.

Qualifications for the role

• Engineering degree, ideally in the field of electronics and/or software engineering
• Several years of relevant professional and leadership experience in a comparable management position.
• Fluent in English, German would be an additional asset
• Demonstrable track record of managing cross-functional teams, with a particular focus on hybrid hardware/software products
• Excellent communicator with a hands-on mentality and inclusive leadership style

More about us

At B&R – a member of the ABB Group, you can expect an exciting and challenging job with an individually tailored introductory training. You will work in agile teams where you have the opportunity to actively contribute and drive ideas forward. Our flexible work models (e.g. flextime, hybrid) offer you an optimal work-life balance. Our unique B&R spirit is characterized by appreciation, communication at eye level and an informal work culture. We offer you customized training and development programs as well as exciting development opportunities within the company. Numerous other B&R benefits (Parental Leave Program, Employee Assistance Program and many more) round off our offer. In order to comply with legal regulations, we refer to the minimum salary of the collective agreement of the electrical and electronics industry of € 5.657,48 gross/month. There is a clear willingness to overpay, depending on qualifications and experience. ABB's Machine Automation Division, also known to our customers as B&R, is an innovative automation company headquartered in Austria with additional offices around the world. B&R became part of ABB's Robotics & Discrete Automation division in 2017 and, together with the ABB Robotics division, employs more than 11,000 people at over 100 locations in more than 53 countries. As a leading global provider of automation solutions, B&R develops, produces and sells industrial electronics, software solutions and mechatronic solutions as well as technologies for machine and factory automation. Since 2020, B&R's automation portfolio has also included Codian brand delta robots. With its innovative solutions, B&R sets new standards and consistently exceeds its customers' expectations. We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. ABB Data Privacy Statement: https://new.abb.com/privacy-notice/candidate