Global IS Strategy Lead

Job Overview

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Global IS Department Manager for Strategy, Governance & Portfolio Management

As Global IS Strategy Lead, you will drive the strategic direction and execution of ABB’s entire Information Systems organization across all business units, geographies, and service models. This is a senior, enterprise-level strategic role reporting to the Global Department Manager for Strategy, Governance and Portfolio Management.

You will operate as a senior individual contributor, working through IT leadership, architects, portfolio managers, and business partners to shape and embed strategy across the organization. Your mandate is to build a refreshed strategy framework and define clear roadmaps with actionable target states – transforming strategy from a document into a living, operational guide that connects daily execution to business outcomes.

You engage with the CIO, IT leadership, business unit leaders, and senior business stakeholders. Your success depends on pragmatic thinking, strong stakeholder management, and an ability to simplify complex environments into clear, compelling direction.

The work model for the role is: #Li-hybrid

• Develop and lead the refresh of ABB’s IT strategy framework, ensuring it reflects current business priorities, technology trends, and operational reality; make it simple, actionable, and genuinely useful to decision-makers
• Support leadership in defining comprehensive IT roadmaps with clear target states, milestones, and success metrics that translate strategy into tangible initiatives and guide portfolio prioritization
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with key business units, business leaders, and IT stakeholders to ensure strategy is co‑created, understood, and aligned with business needs
• Support IT Leadership and the CIO in translating strategy into portfolio decisions, providing analysis and recommendations that connect strategic intent to project selection and resource allocation
• Establish strategy governance and communication processes that ensure strategy remains visible, accessible, and embedded into how ABB’s IT organization operates daily
• Align, and refine ABB’s IT operating model in partnership with IT Leadership and governance teams, ensuring the organizational structure, decision rights, roles, and processes effectively support and enable the defined IT strategy; communicate and explain the operating model to ensure clarity and adoption across the global IT community
• Lead strategy and architecture alignment work, collaborating with IT architects, infrastructure, applications, and support teams to ensure strategic direction informs technical decisions and capability roadmaps
• Drive stakeholder engagement and change leadership to support adoption of refreshed strategy; ensure clarity and buy‑in across the global IT community
• Monitor and assess strategy execution against defined target states and KPIs; provide leadership with regular updates on progress, risks, and opportunities for course correction
• Simplify and demystify complex IT and business landscapes, translating technical and organizational complexity into clear strategic narratives that resonate with both technical and business audiences
• Build strategic foresight by staying informed of emerging technologies, market trends, and business transformations that may impact IT strategy and organizational priorities

• Strategic Thinker with Pragmatic Execution – You are visionary enough to shape the future direction of IT, but pragmatic enough to ensure strategy is actionable, simple, and drives real business value. You avoid “strategy for strategy’s sake.”
• Deep Understanding of Complex Corporate IT Environments – You have substantial experience navigating large, multi‑faceted IT organizations with diverse stakeholders,…