SCM Specialist

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc.; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy India Limited is seeking a Procurement Category Specialist to support global sourcing initiatives and collaborate with category managers. The role involves driving RFQs/RFPs, aligning procurement activities with HVDC strategies and ensuring supplier performance meets budget and quality targets.

The ideal candidate holds an Engineering degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience and is proficient in English, both spoken and written.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in both spoken and written English.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic sourcing activities in collaboration with the category manager.
• Drive RFQs and RFPs for BRM and project execution.
• Coordinate with project teams and internal stakeholders to meet budget, quality and lead time targets.
• Maintain supplier relationships and ensure compliance with purchasing policies and procedures.
• Manage supplier evaluations and provide scorecards to SCM leadership.

Skills

English language

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India Job ID: R0093451 Date Posted: 2026-04-29 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. 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, escalat 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. Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines. 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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