Global Sourcing Specialist for HVDC Projects

6 days ago


Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden Hitachi Vantara Corporation Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a Global Sourcing Specialist to join our HVDC Control and Protection team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for supporting strategic sourcing initiatives, collaborating with the global category manager and handling activities requiring agility to transform category strategies into actions.

In this role, you will work closely with the Project team and other internal stakeholders, engaging in projects and executing strategies defined during the Tendering phase. Your primary responsibilities will include supporting strategic sourcing activities, aligned with the category manager, driving RFQs, RFPs for project execution, and issuing quotation comparison/equalization maps to support purchasing decisions.

You will also be responsible for updating costs for project execution against budget targets, controlling supplier response times to meet internal demands and schedules, maintaining good relationships with suppliers, and supporting category-related actions on supplier qualification and audits, as well as recovery of supplier-caused claim values.

Responsibilities

  • Support strategic sourcing activities, aligned with the category manager; drive RFQs, RFPs for project execution.
  • Issue quotation comparison/equalization maps to support purchasing decisions; update costs for project execution against budget targets.
  • Control supplier response times and meet internal demands and schedules.
  • Maintain good relationships with suppliers, ensuring they comply with laws, regulations, standards, certificates, and directives required by Hitachi Energy.
  • Support category-related actions on supplier qualification and audits, as well as recovery of supplier-caused claim values, matching claims with reported non-conformities related to Supplier Quality.


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