Procurement Senior Professional

The opportunity

As a senior professional in Procurement, you will play a pivotal role in shaping supplier strategy, driving operational excellence, and ensuring alignment with global and local business objectives. You will lead initiatives that enhance supplier performance, optimize cost structures, and ensure compliance with corporate standards and sustainability goals.

How you ll make an impact

• Lead the identification and onboarding of new suppliers in collaboration with category management, Supplier Quality, and Engineering teams.

• Drive supplier qualification processes to ensure alignment with business needs and long-term strategic goals.

• Spearhead negotiations with key suppliers to establish robust agreements. Regularly review and renew pricing structures, terms, and conditions, providing strategic recommendations to senior management. Adapt global contractual frameworks to meet regional and project-specific requirements.

• Oversee comprehensive bid analysis to determine optimal value propositions.

• Provide strategic market insights to bid and proposal teams, enabling competitive positioning and informed decision-making.

• Monitor and evaluate supplier performance across quality, delivery, cost, and sustainability metrics. Lead resolution of performance issues and implement corrective actions. Develop and maintain supplier scorecards and risk mitigation strategies.

• Ensure seamless execution of supply chain activities in alignment with ERP systems, SOPs, and project requirements. Drive continuous improvement in procurement processes and ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations.

• Champion the use of digital platforms such as Pro-Supply for supplier relationship management. Ensure data accuracy and timely updates in accordance with global procedures.

• 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.

• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Your background:

• Technical degree in any fields, mechanical / electrical preferrable.

• 3 to 5 years of experience.

• hands on working expertise and knowledge of SAP, Ariba, Celonis Tool and Microsoft Office tools /Package.

• Computer skills, analytical & creative mind. Presentation skills with attention to details.

• Business skills, decision-making and problem-solving skills.

• Time management and organization skills.

• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.