Buyer

Executes material purchase requests, according to required technical specification, price, delivery schedule and terms. Ensure purchasing activities align with corporate purchasing policies and procedures under supervision.

Your Responsibilities:

• Supplier identification: Recommends / supports in Identifying new suppliers and coordinates with relevant category team. Follows the process to qualify new suppliers in cooperation with Supplier Quality and Engineering specialists.

• Negotiations: Supports in negotiating agreements with main suppliers, and periodically renews pricelists, terms and conditions and feeds back recommendations for appropriate actions.

• Contracts: Adapts corporate contractual framework to the local business needs. Recommends frame agreements to management, ensures approved contractual terms in execution.

• Bid analysis: Analyses and evaluates bids within the scope, in order to determine the optimal value.

• Sales support: Supports bid and proposal teams by providing relevant market information within the area of responsibility.

• Goods received: Tracks goods received to verify appropriate delivery and ensure invoice processing as per available guidelines.

• Supplier performance: Oversees supplier performance (on time delivery, quality, lead time), and recommends solutions / resolves performance issues within the scope.

• Orders: Initiates supply orders in the system, confirms delivery with suppliers, monitors and tracks supplier performance to purchase order requirements.

• Customer alignment: Aligns supplier orders with customer requirements (based on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)/project requirements) in terms of content, quality, delivery, sustainability and price.

• Process alignment: Conducts all Supply Chain activities for all goods and services in accordance with policies and procedures. Ensures Pro-Supply global supplier relationship management platform is kept updated as defined in Pro-Supply procedure within the scope of activities.

• Safety & Integrity: 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:

• Graduate or postgraduate degree in any fields.

• 1 to 3 years of experience.

• Basic Knowledge of SAP, Ariba, and Microsoft Package

• Computer Skills

• Presentation Skills

• Analytical & creative mind

• Attention to Details

• Business Skills.

• Decision-making and problem-solving skills.

• Communication skills.

• Time management and organization skills.

• Safety and integrity: Focus on safety working environment maintain personal safety, data, asset safety and work with complete integrity with zero violations.

• Customer focus and Quality: Be Customer focused and deliver results with quality.

• Collaboration and trust: Collaborate effectively within the team internally and externally.

• Innovation and Speed: Look at process improvements using lean six sigma concepts to drive productivity.

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