SCM Digital Solution Manager

The Opportunity:

We are excited to offer an opportunity for a skilled Digital Solutions Project Manager to join our dynamic Supply Chain Management (SCM) team at Hitachi Energy. You are passioned about new technologies, interested in digitalization, keen to work in a global environment, then you might be the right match to develop the future SCM application landscape at Hitachi Energy.

This is not just a job; it's a chance to be part of a vibrant and collaborative team. In this role you will guide and support the SCM organization to lay out the digitalization strategy and roadmap which supports the organizations to achieve their desired goals. Within the role you build the bridge between the business and IT, to ensure the streamlined global SCM application landscape. Your goal is to identify synergies, drive improvements and ensure the tracking of progress and support the budgeting process.

You will join a well-structured global Group Function SCM team, which daily collaborates with our 5 global Business Units, global SCM functions and other departments. As a SCM Digital Solution Project Manager your main counterparts are the business process owners and our IT department. In this role you directly report to the Head SCM Digital Solution of Hitachi Energy.

We are seeking a highly experienced Supply Chain Manager with a passion for tools and applications and solid understanding of SCM end-to-end processes. The ideal candidate has strong project management skills, the ability to drive multiple simultaneous activities in parallel and attention to detail.

• Ensure the streamlined and aligned strategy for the Hitachi Energy SCM application landscape
• Develop the digital roadmap of the SCM applications landscape jointly with the Business Process Owner and act as the business interface towards the IT
• Advise the SCM leadership and Process Owner teams in tool & applications
• Initiate, support and execute improvement projects with internal and external service provider
• Support the budget process by planning budget needs and tracking actual costs (where applicable)
• Establish best practices sharing and communication on the activities across the Functions and Businesses
• Support Business Process Owners in developing a training strategy and support the execution
• Ensure first level support (business NOT technical) in day-to-day issue resolution on tools and applications, deduct improvements proposals and actions jointly with the process owners

• Superior knowledge in SCM processes & applications
• Several years of experience in Supply Chain Management (operative and strategic)
• Excellent project management skills, Self-initiative, strong ownership and responsibility
• Logic thinking and strong analytical skills with framework to process complicated issues
• Outgoing personality with good communication skills and strong teamwork spirit
• Fluent in English