SCM Team Lead Power Transformers

The Opportunity

Organization

How you’ll make an impact

• Ensure adequate staffing, succession planning and talent management in your area of responsibility.
• Ensure that your team is properly trained, skilled and directed.
• Establish factory budgets, KPI targets and adjust resources accordingly.
• Mentor, coach and develop your team and team members.
  

Sourcing Strategy

• Set spend and cost reduction budget for your factories in coordination with HUB SCM and category managers.
• Plan and implement sourcing strategies in your factories in coordination with category managers.
• Set conditions for your Factory Supply Chain Managers in terms of implementation and execution of the strategies to help them deliver their targets.
  

Processes

• Ensure defined SCM processes are implemented and followed throughout the value chain.
• Define material assumptions during sales bid and approve costing in “must win” opportunities.
• Accountable for prices and terms & conditions definition and control throughout the value
• chain (from sales bid to ERP master data and oversees invoices control rules (tolerances, etc.). Monitor accuracy and drive corrective actions.
• Report on KPI´s for business and processes performance. Enforce compliance to company rules. Support your team on escalation when necessary.
• Promote improvements using benchmark, Design to Value (DtV), cost breakdown, “should costing” and problem-solving techniques.
  

Supplier Management

• Accountable for supplier performance for the spend under your direct responsibility.
• Oversee HUB Supplier Quality & Development activities connected to your factories.
• Act as third level escalation of recurring/critical non-conformity and claims resolution.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
  

Your background

• Degree in Electrical / Mechanical Engineering
• 12+ years of relevant experience in supply chain management or operation management.
• Experience from transformer or automotive industry is a plus.
• Proven skills in negotiation and contract management.
• Knowledge in manufacturing electrical steel, cores, insulation kits, insulation boards, bushings, tap changers and other transformer accessories.
• Experience in leading and working in cross-cultural teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the disciplines: finance, supply chain, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, production management or similar.
• Good understanding in ISO standards, UN´s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, EcoVadis, REACH, RoHS, FMEA, PPAP and Conflict Minerals.