Hub Category Manager (Hub Led Categories)

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Lead, for the assigned spend, a short and medium-term compliant, resilient and sustainable sourcing strategy to meet targets on total cost of ownership and supply performance. Negotiate contracts and service level agreements in line with factory expectations in order to deliver price, lead time and Terms & Conditions information and control its usage in the local ERP systems. Define and mandate Supply Quality and Development team on Supplier Management activities. Collaborate with factories and BU/GPG/HUB stakeholders to support bidding, design to value (DtV) and R&D activities. Initiate projects to cut total cost of ownership and/or to mitigate risks. Take the ultimate accountability and approval authority, and review and assure the quality of the team’s operation in accordance with PG, BU, and HUB regulations and procedures.



Your responsibilities

• Analyze commodity spend, analyze market dynamics and price developments;
• Compare spend cost development vs market development on total cost of ownership base;
• As a spend owner assess, define, adjust and improve a HUB category strategy and plan
• (using CIPS methodology) in line with business needs and the PG procedures and regulations;
• Align on the strategy with key stakeholders and communicate on a regular base;
• Execute and deliver on agreed strategy deployment actions and follow-up on responsible
• functions and other stakeholders;
• Align and deliver on the HUB category targets for KPIs with focus on cost, quality and timely delivery;
• Regularly report on financial performance and supply performance;
• Regularly review the balance of demand vs supply for critical materials. Take measuresto secure supply vs demand and anticipate related to changes or non-repetitive/new re-quirements;
• Promote emerging market sourcing activities where it brings additional value;
• Mandate Supply Quality & Development team in their undertaking for supplier issue res-olution/hot topics;
• Collect detailed factory requirements;
• Run tender/order specific RFx and negotiations where applicable;
• Negotiate spend for selected suppliers. Allocate volume. Sign and monitor Contracts, Frame agreements and Service Level Agreements (SLA);
• Provide input on price trend to BU Commodity Managers for the commodity guideline and to HUB sales bidding processes;
• Distribute market allocation, pricing, lead times, MOQ (If applicable) and Terms & Condi-tions information to factories Factory SCM and/or relevant responsible person and con-trol its usage in the local ERP systems;
• Improve on tender and project material costing on demand or where appropriate;
• Promote cost breakdown analysis, should costing and run regular benchmarks;
• Have contracts approved and approve PO as per applicable CAT/LAT;
• Oversee the supplier relationship with regular review contract execution, supply perfor-mance, improvement activities and future. For suppliers in the HUB assign supplier ac-count owner for the majority of the spend;
• Lead supplier qualification for the ones in scope, perform risk assessment. Plan and as-sign audits to Supply Quality & Development Engineer;
• Based on performance data, evaluate, define and monitor improvement measures for selected suppliers;
• Organize or ask for resources accordingly;
• Act as resolution owner on escalated topics as mapped in escalation matrix;
• Identify and address performance hot spots and escalate adequately with corrective and preventive measures;
• Manage claims in order to maximize compensation to Hitachi Energy;
• Research and scouting of new supplier with other function (i.e. SQ, Engineering);
• Work closely with other functions to initiate, promote and support projects execution inorder to bring value on total cost of ownership, risk mitigation, quality, cash, lead time,material availability;
• Implementation of material cost cutting and risk mitigation projects, preferably using Dy-namic Evolution methodology;
• Execute on forward sourcing. Namely activities for R&D, DTV, New Product Introduction,product cost improvement project. Support technology transfer projects, footprintchanges and other agreed improvement measures;
• Propose and perform make vs buystudies and run SCM implementation;
• Living core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues, and the business.

Your background

• Degree in engineering;
• 5-10 years of experience;
• Sound knowledge of Transformers will be a plus;
• Fluency in English;
• Strong written and spoken communication skills;
• Flexibility, proactivity and open-minded;
• Project focused;
• Available for transfers.

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Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future. We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible and secure whilst balancing social, environmental and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ around 38,000 people in 90 countries and generate business volumes of approximately $10 billion USD. www.hitachienergy.com