Business Operations Strategy & Planning Specialist Professional

HITACHI ENERGY CZECH REPUBLIC S.R.O.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Vantara seeks a seasoned operations and procurement leader to join the GSX organization. You will own end-to-end purchasing, supply chain management, and financial planning, partnering with cross-functional teams and external suppliers to optimize costs and delivery.

You will build dashboards, report on P&L variances, and automate recurring reports, helping senior leaders see where we are against plan. ERP experience with Oracle/NetSuite/SAP is required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in business operations, supply chain, procurement, or operations finance.
• Procurement and supply chain: hands-on sourcing, supplier negotiation, purchase orders, contract administration, and inventory and asset planning from order to delivery.
• Financial acumen: P&L, AOP budgeting, and forecasting, including explaining variances and margin impact.
• ERP proficiency: working knowledge of Oracle (or NetSuite, SAP, or equivalent) for orders, purchasing, inventory, assets, and revenue, and reconciling it to finance reporting.
• Reporting and analytics: you build dashboards leaders actually use, with a BI tool (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or equivalent) at a builder level.
• Communication and judgment: you explain findings to senior leaders, work with limited oversight, and build structure where the environment is still evolving.
• Salesforce CRM reporting, and solution-level (attached or drag revenue) reporting that depends on CRM tagging.
• Leading ERP, WMS, OMS, or reporting-platform implementations from requirements through go-live.
• Automating recurring reporting through integrations (API–EDI) or scripting (Python or R).
• Familiarity with Jira or other project managemen.

Responsibilities

• Run purchasing end to end with the purchasing team: requisitions, quotes, supplier selection, price and terms negotiation, order processing, and contract administration.
• Manage supplier performance on price, quality, and delivery, and build long-term agreements with strategic suppliers and partners.
• Track assets and equipment from receipt to retirement, and plan equipment needs against demand, lead times, and budget.
• Coordinate demand, inventory, fulfillment, and delivery across teams so equipment and materials are available when programs need them, and flag constraints early.
• Keep orders, shipments, and asset records accurate in the ERP (Oracle or equivalent), and reconcile them to finance and CRM data so the numbers tie.
• Own the annual operating plan (AOP) budget and forecast: build forecasting models, allocate resources, and track spend against plan.
• Understand the P&L: explain variances, cost to serve, and margin impact, and recommend changes.
• Identify and prioritize operational improvements using industry and competitive trends and internal data, then build the plan and drive it with limited oversight.
• Build revenue and margin dashboards leaders actually use: product-level performance, margin by channel and partner, and trends against plan.
• Build solution-level reporting that shows direct revenue plus attached (drag) revenue, using solution identifiers in Salesforce, and work with Sales Operations to close data quality gaps.
• Prepare the data and narrative for monthly business reviews, with KPI scorecards that show at a glance what is on plan, at risk, or needs action.
• Automate recurring reports so the monthly package needs minimal manual effort, and respond to ad hoc leadership requests within agreed service levels.
• Partner with program managers to connect program schedules to purchasing, supply, and budget decisions.

Skills

Operations leadership

Procurement & supply chain

Finance & P&L understanding

ERP systems (Oracle/NetSuite/SAP)

BI dashboards (Power BI/Tableau/Looker

Salesforce CRM reporting

Go-live and implementations

Automation & scripting (Python/R)

Jira / project management

Tools

Oracle ERP

NetSuite

SAP

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

Job description

Function

Product

Our Company

We're Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world's innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks - can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you've seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you've seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we're laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We're looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Job description

The Role

This role sits at the center of one of Hitachi Vantara's most cross-functional organizations. You will join the Operations & PMO team within the Global Solutions & Experience (GSX) organization - a group at the intersection of product management, Engineering Operations, OEM and alliance partnerships, and solution delivery. Our organization brings technology solutions to market alongside Hitachi storage.

This role reports to the Manager of Operations & PMO and partners closely with other vertical teams within the GSX group and other business partners across Hitachi Vantara.

What You Will Be Doing

You will be on the business side of operations for a global solutions organization: what we purchase, what it costs, where it is, and what it returns. The role combines purchasing, supply chain, and financial planning with the reporting leaders use to run the business. You will also be driving process improvement and documentation with the team, finding a simpler, faster, and more efficient way to operate with the team and with internal and external business partners.

Purchasing Team: Hardware and Software

• Run purchasing end to end with the purchasing team: requisitions, quotes, supplier selection, price and terms negotiation, order processing, and contract administration
• Manage supplier performance on price, quality, and delivery, and build long-term agreements with strategic suppliers and partners
• Track assets and equipment from receipt to retirement, and plan equipment needs against demand, lead times, and budget

Own the supply chain end to end

• Coordinate demand, inventory, fulfillment, and delivery across teams so equipment and materials are available when programs need them, and flag constraints early
• Keep orders, shipments, and asset records accurate in the ERP (Oracle or equivalent), and reconcile them to finance and CRM data so the numbers tie

Plan and manage the financials

• Own the annual operating plan (AOP) budget and forecast: build forecasting models, allocate resources, and track spend against plan
• Understand the P&L: explain variances, cost to serve, and margin impact, and recommend changes
• Identify and prioritize operational improvements using industry and competitive trends and internal data, then build the plan and drive it with limited oversight

Build revenue and margin visibility

• Build revenue and margin dashboards leaders actually use: product-level performance, margin by channel and partner, and trends against plan
• Build solution-level reporting that shows direct revenue plus attached (drag) revenue, using solution identifiers in Salesforce, and work with Sales Operations to close data quality gaps

Support leadership reporting and business reviews

• Prepare the data and narrative for monthly business reviews, with KPI scorecards that show at a glance what is on plan, at risk, or needs action
• Automate recurring reports so the monthly package needs minimal manual effort, and respond to ad hoc leadership requests within agreed service levels
• Partner with program managers to connect program schedules to purchasing, supply, and budget decisions

What You Will Bring

• 10+ years in business operations, supply chain, procurement, or operations finance
• Procurement and supply chain: hands-on sourcing, supplier negotiation, purchase orders, contract administration, and inventory and asset planning from order to delivery
• Financial acumen: P&L, AOP budgeting, and forecasting, including explaining variances and margin impact
• ERP proficiency: working knowledge of Oracle (or NetSuite, SAP, or equivalent) for orders, purchasing, inventory, assets, and revenue, and reconciling it to finance reporting
• Reporting and analytics: you build dashboards leaders actually use, with a BI tool (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or equivalent) at a builder level
• Communication and judgment: you explain findings to senior leaders, work with limited oversight, and build structure where the environment is still evolving
• Salesforce CRM reporting, and solution-level (attached or drag revenue) reporting that depends on CRM tagging
• Leading ERP, WMS, OMS, or reporting-platform implementations from requirements through go-live
• Automating recurring reporting through integrations (API&xdash;EDI) or scripting (Python or R)
• Familiarity with Jira or other project managemen