Supply Chain Specialist-HVDC

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

Job summary

Hitachi Energy in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, is seeking a procurement professional to support global sourcing initiatives and execute category strategies. You will collaborate with project teams and internal stakeholders to ensure optimal business outcomes in alignment with corporate purchasing policies.

The role emphasizes driving RFQs/RFPs, supplier evaluations, and maintaining strong supplier relationships to achieve savings and on-time deliveries across categories, within a global SCM

Qualifications

• Engineering degree with minimum 5 years of relevant procurement experience.
• Fluent in English, both spoken and written.
• Experience in strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations and category management.

Responsibilities

• Drive RFQs, RFPs for BRM and project execution to meet budget, quality and lead time targets.
• Coordinate with project teams and internal stakeholders to align procurement activities with HVDC/Hitachi Energy strategies.
• Maintain supplier relationships to ensure best value, quality and on-time deliveries across categories.

Skills

Procurement

Category management

RFQ/RFP processes

Negotiation

SAP Ariba

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

SAP Ariba

BRM Protocol

Excel

Job description

Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Job Schedule: Full time

Remote: No

Job Description

The opportunity to support global sourcing initiatives, under collaboration with a global category manager. Handle activities that require agility to transform category strategies into actions. Work collaboratively with the project team and other internal stakeholders, to ensure optimal business outcomes. Ensure that procurement activities are in accordance with the HVDC Business Strategies and 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 and project requirements – meet budget targets.
• Pursue saving targets.
• Issue proper quotation comparison / equalization map to support purchasing decision.
• Input information under Pro‑procure. Update costs for project execution, against budget targets, in BRM protocol.
• Support the development and maintenance of the category supply base, focusing 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 contract updates and amendments.
• Ensure that suppliers comply with laws, regulations, standards, certificates and directives that Hitachi Energy requires.
• Support category related actions on qualification and audits process, as well as recover 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 and initiate improvement projects when required.
• Issue the Purchase Request (RFP) and initiate purchase orders (PO) process to CSS according to the BRM Protocol.
• Support collecting Order Acknowledgments from suppliers when needed.
• Foster collaboration as ONE Hitachi Energy team.
• Work with the global SCM team of category managers, transactional buyers, logistic planners and supplier quality engineers to procure, produce and deliver goods and materials on budget, on time and with quality to 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, and communicate in a timely manner.
• Establish clear and transparent communication internally, externally, and between divisions, business units and functions; support the implementation of SCM activities and initiatives.

Candidate background

Candidate should have a degree in Engineering with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience. Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required. Qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site as a result of your disability.

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