Thomas Schmid

- Cont. review the Legal Entity / Branch Office landscape & take action to optimize group interest - Resp. for deployment of country legal entity step plans, review delays & mitigation plans to enable deployment on time & on budget. - Lead Exit countries liquidation exec. & local staff where ABB decided to exit business. - Country Holding Officer & member of the board in various countries - Dev. best practices among countries, share, drive standardization and consistency of the step plans deployment

- AMEA PMO to supervise & support the deployment of countries legal entity step plans (merge, liquidate & sell), review delays and related mitigation plans to enable deployment on time and on budget - First point of contact for all questions to Gr. Funct. TAX, LEGAL, TREASURY and the BAs - Lead Exit countries liquidation of LE & BoAs where decided to exit incl. supervision of 3rd parties & gov. authorities - Responsible for LEM Stakeholder meetings - Responsible for the quarterly PBI reporting to ABB's Exec

-Discretionary spend: Project approach developed, analysis executed, Cat. Managers & Bus leaders engaged to run exercise as proposed. Countries informed & related documents developed for country review, conf. of pot. cost cutting initiatives followed by execution -Implemented new >100kUSD PO ERP approval workflow in all countries -Implemented new Global Governance & Assurance framework: Set-up the project structure, engaged all function stakeholders to successfully complete & publish new regulations on-time

- Responsible for implementation of ABB’s group SCM strategy, processes and tools for business unit measurement products - Design and implement sourcing plans to reach Division / BU / Region targets - Supply risk management and supply base optimization - Implement category management and ensure sustainable supply chains for the global operations - SCM process optimization, best practice sharing

- CTL Contracted Services, spend resp.: >1BUSD - Lead and coordinate global sourcing strategies and activities - Lead and coach 8 Region and Global CTL’s - Define and implement CS BPR Project with introd. of a VMS in various countries - Create and implement standardized GTC’s for ABB globally - Lead global SAS /SCM cooperation enhancing the P2P process - Develop and promote new comm. concept for ext. Service Providers supporting local business org. - Negotiate and set-up global Supplier agreements.