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— Project Fusion – Refreshed job architecture for a future- proof business Adapting our job architecture to reflect the dynamics of the ABB transformation and direction

we have an up-to-date job catalog and that employ- ees are correctly assigned to the jobs they perform.

With ABB Way and the evolution of our business opera- tions, new jobs are emerging in ABB, while others be- come obsolete. Every employee should have an up-to- date job that determines main attributes and core skills and informs their career path. It’s time to review the existing job architecture of ABB and refresh it, adapting to the current business requirements and preparing for the future. The first stage of this process is already underway! What is a job architecture and why is it important? All jobs in ABB belong to one company-wide job archi- tecture, where jobs are grouped into job families and job family groups, and described by job profiles to cre- ate a consistent organizational blueprint. The job archi- tecture is a key element to design career paths, com- pensation structures and performance management, enabling our employees to plan and drive their careers in line with the Open Job Market. From a system standpoint, job architecture serves as a foundation for globally consistent HR processes, and supports our future transition to the new global HR system, Workday.

The process had several steps:

1. Job structure review – this was the starting point. Job Family Group owners from all Business Areas reviewed the existing job structure, defined a new one for the future and updated the job catalog.

2. Job-to-job mapping – existing jobs were mapped to the future ones defined in the new job catalog.

3. Job-to-employee mapping – in this phase, HRBPs assigned employees to the correct future jobs. Job descriptions were reviewed and updated as well. As an outcome of these activities, the number of job family groups was reduced from 21 to 17, with some new groups created, e.g. Digital, while Contin- uous Improvement, Manufacturing, Procurement & Logistics, Planning and Fulfillment and Quality were merged into one group called Operations. We set- tled on 86 job families, which host approximately 530 cleaned-up and updated jobs. You can learn more here.

What is the job architecture review? Job architecture review was initiated to ensure that