Procurement Experienced Professional

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

HITACHI ENERGY INDIA LIMITED in Gurgaon, Haryana, India invites experienced procurement professionals to join our global sourcing team. You will support strategic sourcing initiatives, drive RFQs and RFPs for BRM and project execution, and ensure alignment with budget, quality, and lead time targets.

Collaborate with project teams and with the global SCM group to optimize supplier performance, update project costs, manage contracts in SAP Ariba, and uphold Hitachi Energy standards and regulatory

Qualifications

• Engineering degree required.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English is required.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic sourcing activities, drive RFQs, RFPs for BRM and project execution, aiming to meet budget, quality and lead time defined in the strategy.
• Control timely responses from suppliers and meet internal demands and schedules.
• Update costs for project execution, against budget targets, in BRM protocol.
• Ensure suppliers comply with laws, regulations, standards, certificates and directives Hitachi Energy requires.
• Upload and maintain standard agreements / frame agreements and Contracts in SAP Ariba.

Skills

English language proficiency

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY INDIA LIMITED

Profession (Job Category): Customer Service & Contact Center Operations

Job Schedule: Full time

Remote: No

Job Description: The opportunity 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 that procurement activities are in accordance with the HVDC Business Strategies and with corporate purchasing policies and procedures. Category Specialists are expected to engage in projects and execute strategies defined during the Tendering phase

How you’ll make an impact

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. 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.

Care for the 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 CMs to engage in contracts updates and amendments. Ensure that our suppliers comply with the laws, regulations, standards, certificates and directives that Hitachi Energy requires from their suppliers.

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.

Issues 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 and to ensure that the goods and material are procured, produced and delivered on budget, on time and with quality to our project sites worldwide.

Key role interacting 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, escalation and communicate it timely.

Establishes clear and transparent communication internally, externally, and between different divisions, business units and functions and supports the implementation of SCM activities and initiative Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background

Candidate should have a degree in Engineering with min 5 years of relevant work experience Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.

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