Global Strategic Category Manager – Sourcing & Negotiation

Hitachi Energy Ltd.; la Maneja; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking an experienced Senior Sourcing/Procurement professional to lead strategic supply chain initiatives in Spain. You will align category strategies with stakeholders, manage supplier relationships, and drive cost, quality, and delivery improvements.

The role requires extensive SCM experience, strong negotiation and analytical skills, and ability to travel up to 50%. Fluency in English is essential, with additional language skills a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, SCM, or related field.
• 14+ years in Supply Chain Management, preferably in Category Management or Strategic Sourcing in multinational companies.
• Strong understanding of procurement principles and best practices.
• Proven ability to develop and execute procurement strategies.
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills.
• CIPS or ISM CPSM certification is an advantage.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to transform data into short and long-term plans.
• Fluent in English, with other languages being an advantage.
• Flexibility to travel up to 25~50%.

Responsibilities

• Align the strategy with key stakeholders and communicate regularly.
• Analyze commodity spend, market dynamics, and price developments.
• Compare spend cost development versus market development on a total cost of ownership basis.
• As a spend owner, assess, define, adjust, and improve the HBU category strategy and plan using CIPS methodology, aligning with business needs and Hitachi Energy procedures and regulations.
• Execute and deliver on agreed strategy deployment actions, following up with responsible functions and other stakeholders.
• Align and deliver on HBU category targets for KPIs, focusing on cost, quality, and timely delivery.
• Regularly report on financial and supply performance.
• Regularly review the balance of demand versus supply for critical materials, taking measures to secure supply and anticipate changes or new requirements.
• Promote emerging market sourcing activities where they bring additional value.
• Mandate the Supply Quality Development team in resolving supplier issues and hot topics.
• Collect detailed factory requirements.
• Run tender/order-specific RFx and negotiations as applicable.
• Negotiate spend for selected suppliers, allocate volume, and sign and monitor contracts, frame agreements, and service level agreements (SLAs).
• Provide input on price trends to BU Commodity Managers for commodity guidelines and HBU sales bidding processes.
• Distribute market allocation, pricing, lead times, MOQ (if applicable), and Terms Conditions information to factories and relevant responsible persons, controlling its usage in local ERP systems.
• Improve tender and project material costing on demand or where appropriate.
• Promote cost breakdown analysis, should costing, and regular benchmarks.
• Approve contracts and purchase orders as per applicable CAT/LAT.

Skills

Negotiation

Communication

Analytical skills

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or related field

Job description

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking an experienced Senior Sourcing/Procurement professional to lead strategic supply chain initiatives in Spain. You will align category strategies with stakeholders, manage supplier relationships, and drive cost, quality, and delivery improvements.

The role requires extensive SCM experience, strong negotiation and analytical skills, and ability to travel up to 50%. Fluency in English is essential, with additional language skills a plus.