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Regional General Manager-Digital, Americas

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Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC
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Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC
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Lead the Americas' digital business focusing on profitable growth, overseeing operations, ensuring quality in production, and enhancing technology.
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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

This Position reports to:

BL Manager Digital
 

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead a global or local business. Each day, you will assume responsibility for end-to end business activities including operations, portfolio and commercial. You will also showcase your expertise by ensuring profitable business growth in these areas.
 

The work model for the role is: hybrid, based in Montreal, Canada.
This role is contributing to the Process Industries Digital business in Americas (covering both North and South America). Main stakeholders are Business Lines, Sales, Operations and Finance.
Your Role: Own the Challenge 

  • Ensuring profitable business growth by implementing the operating unit’s business strategy, with responsibility for Profit and Loss, performance targets and improvement actions

  • Overseeing production facilities within the operating unit to ensure targets are achieved and high-quality products, services, and processes are delivered

  • Improving manufacturing technology and competence in line with strategy

  • Driving marketing and sales, through the implementation of new functional processes and tools, to maximize sales efficiency and effectiveness

What it takes to run what runs the world 

  • You are highly skilled in industrial digital software and the mining and minerals, pulp, paper & fibre and metals & power conversion markets

  • You have 15 years of experience in the industrial advanced software space working as commercial and operations leader with industrial software solutions and relevant customers

  • Possess an enhanced knowledge in Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Advanced Process Control, Asset Performance Management, Energy Management as well as latest AI/ML, GenAI and cloud/edge technologies

  • You demonstrate innovation in collaboration and team leadership

  • Proven experience in industrial software/engineering/process technologies

  • You are at ease communicating in English; Portuguese and/or Spanish will be an advantage

  • You hold a valid right-to-work visa in Canada

  • Travel up to 30% will be required for the role

Why ABB?

We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence. You’ll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that’s tailored to your goals. Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger.

We look forward to receiving your application, kindly leave your application by 15 September 2025. For more information, please contact Sanjit Shewale, [email protected].

  

ABB values the dedication, commitment, and expertise of our employees. As an Employment Equity Employer, we believe in an inclusive and diverse workforce. We are committed to ensuring that our policies and practices align with the Employment Equity Program, aiming for a workforce that is truly representative of the four designated groups:

  • Women

  • Indigenous peoples

  • Members of visible minorities

  • Persons with disabilities

ABB is dedicated to providing reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities and encourages candidates to self-identify during the application process.

Top Skills

Advanced Process Control
AI
Asset Performance Management
Cloud
Edge Technologies
Energy Management
Machine Learning
Manufacturing Execution Systems

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