Procurement Experienced Professional

Hitachi Vantara Corporation; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in India is seeking a Category Specialist with 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing and procurement. You will support RFQs/RFPs and collaborate with global category managers to implement category strategies across project deliveries.

Role focuses on ensuring on-time, on-budget procurement outcomes, supplier management, and adherence to corporate purchasing policies. Strong English communication is essential for success in this global environment.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in English (spoken and written) required.
• Engineering degree with at least 5 years of relevant work experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive RFQs and RFPs for BRM and project execution to meet budget, quality and lead times.
• Coordinate with global category managers and project teams to implement category strategies.
• Ensure compliance with Hitachi Energy purchasing policies and BRM protocols.
• Monitor supplier performance, negotiate savings and improvements, and manage contract life cycles.
• Support supplier qualifications, audits, and scorecards to drive continuous improvement.

Skills

English proficiency

Education

Engineering degree (B.E./B.Tech or equivalent)

Job description

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.
• Support on the development and maintenance of the category supply base, with focus on total cost, quality, lead time and capacity, to meet supply planning towards project deliveries.
• 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 in a timely manner. 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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