Procurement Experienced Professional

Hitachi Energy; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in India is seeking a Category Specialist to drive strategic sourcing activities and implement category strategies for project execution. You will collaborate with global category managers, manage RFQs/RFPs, and ensure supplier alignment with budget, quality, and lead time.

The role emphasizes supplier evaluation, negotiations, and contract maintenance. The position requires an Engineering degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience, with strong English-language proficiency

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering with minimum 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Proficiency in both spoken and written English is required.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic sourcing with category manager; drive RFQs and RFPs for BRM and projects to meet budget, quality, and lead time.
• Ensure timely supplier responses and meet internal schedules; run benchmarks for sourcing initiatives.
• Support the implementation and management of a category strategy, delivering savings and efficiencies.
• Ensure negotiations, quotations and proposals align with strategy/project requirements and target budgets.
• Provide quotation comparison maps to support purchasing decisions; input information and update costs per BRM protocol.
• Develop and maintain the category supply base focusing on total cost, quality, lead time and capacity.
• Maintain supplier relationships to ensure best value and continuous improvement across contracts.
• Upload and maintain standard/frame agreements and contracts in SAP Ariba; monitor expiration dates.
• Ensure supplier compliance with laws, regulations, standards and directives required by Hitachi Energy.
• Support qualification and audits; address supplier quality claims and related actions.
• Run supplier evaluations post-delivery; share scorecards with Category Managers and SCM leaders.
• Issue purchase requests and POs per BRM protocol; collect Order Acknowledgments as needed.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration as ONE Hitachi Energy to ensure on-budget, on-time delivery for project sites worldwide.
• Engage with Engineering, project management and global SCM; coordinate and support SCM topics.
• Ensure timely, clear communication across divisions and functions; support SCM initiatives.

Skills

Strategic Sourcing

RFQ/RFP Process

Supplier Relationship Management

Contract Management

SAP Ariba

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

SAP Ariba

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 youll 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, expand 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 Energys 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.