Strategy Manager - Motion Business Area

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Global Head of Strategy and Business Intelligence, Motion

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At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

As part of our strategic growth agenda, we are hiring a new Strategy Manager for our Motion Business Area.

This role is open globally, with preferred locations near our main Motion hubs in Switzerland, Spain, Germany, and Italy. The work model is hybrid .

The targeted start date for this role is set for November 1st, 2026.

This role aims at strengthening our Motion Business Area’s strategy capability by driving strategic analyses, projects, and narratives that inform senior leadership decision-making. It is designed for a strategy professional who can operate with autonomy, lead strategic workstreams end to end, and translate insights into clear, compelling, and leadership-ready outputs.

The role will collaborate closely with the Motion Leadership Team, Divisions, and key Business Area functions such as M&A, Ventures, Finance, and Sustainability. It will contribute both to core strategy processes and to forward-looking strategic topics, including new growth areas and long-term opportunities.

This role reports to our global Head of Strategy & Business Intelligence, Motion.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic studies, deep dives & projects

• Support strategic studies and deep dives, either as standalone projects such as long-term market or technology opportunities, or in close collaboration with Divisions.
• Structure and deliver strategic projects by defining scope, driving execution with limited supervision, and supporting topics from ideation through analysis to leadership readout and follow-up.

External market & growth opportunity screening

• Screen external markets, technologies, and competitive dynamics to inform Motion’s strategic priorities, in close collaboration with the Business Intelligence team.
• Identify and assess new growth opportunities, including Horizon 3 topics, emerging sectors, geographies, and business models.
• Synthesize external insights into clear implications for Motion’s strategy and portfolio.

Strategic deliverables & leadership narratives

• Support strategic deliverables for Motion by shaping clear, insight-driven narratives for the Motion Leadership Team, internal stakeholders, and selected external audiences.
• Translate analyses into concise, strategic, and decision-oriented presentations.
• Ensure a high standard of storyline, logic, and messaging across all strategy-related outputs.

M&A and portfolio support (strategy perspective)

• Support M&A and portfolio topics from a strategic perspective, primarily at the Motion Business Area level.
• Contribute to commercial and strategic assessments for Motion-led deals, including market attractiveness, strategic fit, and value creation logic.
• Prepare strategy-focused materials for internal reviews and decision forums.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in relevant fields
• Several years of experience in strategy, management consulting, corporate development, business intelligence, or a related strategic role
• Strong strategic thinking & synthesis: Ability to frame problems, structure analyses, and articulate clear strategic implications
• Independent content creation: Proven ability to build high‑quality presentations and strategic documents with minimal coaching; Excellent PowerPoint and report‑writing skills; able to simplify complex topics into Leadership‑ready material
• Communication & storytelling: Able to consolidate diverse viewpoints and challenge assumptions constructively
• Cross‑functional collaboration: Experience working effectively in decentralized organization with multitude of stakeholders to align data, insights, and strategic narratives
• Proactive mindset & ownership: Demonstrates initiative, curiosity, and a strong sense of accountability; Pushes topics forward and delivers on commitments, even under time pressure
• Agility & resilience: Able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in a dynamic, senior‑stakeholder environment
• M&A exposure: Prior exposure to portfolio topics and strategy‑led deal support is a plus
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

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This opportunity is open to candidates in multiple countries, with the final work location determined based on the selected candidate. As compensation may vary by location, we are committed to being transparent throughout the hiring process and will share details of the salary range, variable compensation and benefits package with candidates who progress to the first interview stage for a location in the European Union, covered by the EU Pay Transparency Directive.

The final offer will be tailored based on your role location, experience, skills and qualifications, internal market positioning and alignment with ABB internal standards.

ABB Motion, a global leader in motors and drives, is at the core of accelerating a more productive and sustainable future. We innovate and push the boundaries of technology to contribute to energy efficient, decarbonizing and circular solutions for customers, industries and societies. With our digitally enabled drives, motors and services we support our customers and partners to achieve better performance, safety and reliability. To help the world’s industries outrun – leaner and cleaner, we deliver motor-driven solutions for a wide range of applications in all industrial segments. Building on over 140 years of domain expertise in electric powertrains, our more than 22,000 employees across 100 countries learn and improve every day. go.abb/motion

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