Supply Chain Specialist-HVDC
Hitachi
Gurgaon, Haryana, IndiaremotePosted 6 months ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience required.
- Engineering degree required.
- Fluency in spoken and written English required.
- Role supports global sourcing initiatives in collaboration with global category managers.
- Involves strategic sourcing, RFQs/RFPs, and delivering savings and efficiencies.
- Works within ONE Hitachi Energy team across global SCM, engineering, and project stakeholders.
Role overview
The opportunity involves supporting global sourcing initiatives in collaboration with the global category manager, handling agile activities that translate category strategies into actions, and working with project teams and internal stakeholders to ensure optimal business outcomes while adhering to HVDC Business Strategies and corporate purchasing policies.
Responsibilities
- Support global sourcing initiatives, under collaboration with global category manager.
- Handle activities that require agility to transform category strategies into actions.
- Work collaboratively with Project team and other internal stakeholders to ensure optimal business outcomes.
- Ensure procurement activities are in accordance with the HVDC Business Strategies and corporate purchasing policies and procedures.
- Engage in projects and execute strategies defined during the Tendering phase.
- Support strategic sourcing activities, in close alignment with the category manager; drive RFQs, RFPs for BRM and project execution, aiming to meet budget, quality and lead time defined in the strategy.
- Control appropriate time response from suppliers and meet internal demands and schedules.
- Run benchmark studies whenever required for specific sourcing initiatives.
- Support the implementation and management of a category strategy, delivering savings and efficiencies to the business.
- Ensure that results of negotiations, quotations and proposals are aligned with strategy / project requirements - meet budget targets and pursue saving targets.
- Issue proper quotation comparison / equalization map to support purchasing decision.
- Input information Pro-procure. Update costs for project execution, against budget targets, in BRM protocol.
- Support the development and maintenance of the category supply base, focusing on total cost, quality, lead time and capacity, to meet supply planning towards project deliveries.
- Maintain relationships with suppliers to ensure HVDC receives best value for money and continuous improvement over the life of contracts in specific categories of spend.
- Upload and maintain valid standard agreements / frame agreements and contracts in SAP Ariba.
- Monitor expiration dates and inform Category Managers to engage in contract updates and amendments.
- Ensure that suppliers comply with the laws, regulations, standards, certificates and directives required by Hitachi Energy.
- Support category related actions on qualification and audits process, as well as re-cover of supplier‑caused claim values, matching claims with reported OPQs related to Supplier Quality.
- Run regular supplier evaluations after deliveries, share supplier scorecards and reports to Category Managers and SCM leaders; initiate improvement projects when required.
- Issue the Purchase Request (RFP), initiate purchase orders (PO) process to CSS according to the BRM Protocol; support, when needed, collecting Order Acknowledgments from suppliers.
- Foster collaboration as ONE Hitachi Energy team; work together with global SCM team of category managers, transactional buyers, logistic planners and supplier quality engineers to ensure goods and material are procured, produced and delivered on budget, on time and with quality to project sites worldwide.
- Interact with stakeholders in project execution, i.e., Engineering, project management and global SCM organization; coordinate, collaborate and support the Business in SCM related topics.
- Request, seek, escalate and communicate in a timely manner; establish clear and transparent communication internally, externally, and between divisions, business units and functions; support implementation of SCM activities and initiatives.
- Live Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
Requirements
- Degree in Engineering.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience.
- Proficiency in both spoken and written English.
Additional details
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