SCM Engineer - IT procurement

Linxon; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Life Insurance

Career Progression

Job summary

Linxon in Chennai, India, is seeking an SCM Engineer to help verify and analyze Linxon's prequalified vendors globally, identifying risks and keeping the vendor list updated after prequalification. You will collaborate with procurement and ERP teams to onboard suppliers in SAP Ariba, conduct risk checks, manage vendor data, and support RFQ processes to ensure timely PO placement.

The role requires 5–10+ years in IT procurement, fluency in English, and a strong understanding of licensing models

Qualifications

• Engineering graduate with 5–10+ years of IT procurement, vendor onboarding and procurement experience.
• Experience with IT hardware, software licensing models, SaaS and IT services.
• Exposure to ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, or similar).
• Strong knowledge of SAP Ariba system.
• Excellent negotiation and vendor management skills.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Onboard suppliers in SAP Ariba portal and initiate supplier requests.
• Verify prequalification documents provided during onboarding.
• Analyze vendor risk using SAP Ariba.
• Update and maintain vendor list and ensure onboarding before placing PO.
• Check mandatory documents uploaded by suppliers periodically.
• Launch RFQ and receive offers from vendors before deadlines.

Skills

IT procurement

Vendor onboarding

Vendor management

SAP Ariba

English fluency

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

SAP Ariba

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: SCM Engineer

Job Location: Chennai, India

Join Us!

We combine AtkinsR alis project management expertise and Hitachi Energy s deep technological knowledge to create a company dedicated to substations - we are Linxon!

This role sits within our Supply Chain Management team. The purpose of the role is to provide a continuous verification and analysis of the complete Linxon prequalified vendors globally, identifying potential risks and keeping Linxon vendor list updated after the prequalification process has been successfully completed.

What will you do

• Vendor Onboarding process in SAP Ariba Portal by initiating supplier request.
• Verification of prequalification documents provided by the suppliers during onboarding process.
• Analyze and perform Vendor Risk assessment check in SAP Ariba.
• Updating and Maintaining Complete Vendor List and to ensure completion of Vendor onboarding process before placing PO.
• Perform Periodic Check on mandatory documents uploaded by Supplier during onboarding process.
• Launching RFQ and receiving offer from Vendor before deadline in SAP Ariba Portal.

Experience and Education Required

• Minimum Engineering Graduate in engineering or equivalent qualification and applicable experience of 5 to 10 + years of experience in IT procurement, supply chain, Vendor onboarding and procurement.
• Experience with IT hardware, software licensing models, SaaS, and IT services
• Exposure to ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, or similar)
• Procurement of IT related items, Applications, cloud services, software licenses and IT software experience are required.
• Good knowledge of SAP Ariba system.
• Good knowledge in electrical Equipment s.
• Strong understanding of IT products, services, and licensing models
• Excellent negotiation and vendor management skills
• Fluent in English

What we offer

• 20 days Privilege Leave, 13 days Emergency leave and 14 Public holidays per year.
• Medical Insurance, Life Insurance and Career Progression
• When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently at Linxon - we encourage applications from people of all races, ages, genders, religions, sexual orientations and more - so whoever you are, we hope you ll see things our way, too.

About Linxon

Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.

We combine AtkinsR alis project management expertise and Hitachi Energy s deep technological knowledge to create a company dedicated to substations - we are Linxon.

Linxon s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.

As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy, and transportation.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.

Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular

At Linxon, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.