Senior Supply Chain Specialist

The opportunity:

Support the Factory SCM Manager in ensuring implementation and adherence to SCM strategies, processes and follow up in the factories to ensure material availability, delivery performance and cost competitiveness. Support management of assigned spend to establish resilient and sustainable sourcing strategies to meet targets on total cost of ownership, quality, and reliability of supplies. Collaborate with factory and HUB(Region) stakeholders to support the undertakings, project implementation, sales/tender bidding process. This position will be based in Bac Ninh, Vietnam.

How you'll make an impact:

• You will support the Factory SCM on assigned tasks, for assigned categories/spends, to assess, analyze supplier data/market information and define the category strategy in line with business needs and company procedures and regulatory requirements, execute and deliver agreed strategy deployment actions and follow-up on responsible functions and other stakeholders and regularly review the balance of demand vs supply for critical materials. Take measures to secure supply vs demand and anticipate related to changes or non-repetitive/new requirements.
• You will coordinate with key stakeholders to deliver the HUB category targets for KPIs with focus on cost, quality and timely delivery, coordinate with Supply Quality & Development team in their undertaking for new supplier development, supplier issue resolution/hot topic, support in liaison to the Planning & Fulfillment team in ERP data management under SCM responsibility: i.e. supplier contact details, allocation plan, prices, lead time, MOQ, Incoterms, payment terms, align with the strategy with key stakeholders and communicate on a regular basis.
• You will collect detailed factory requirements, run tender/order specific RFx and negotiations where applicable, negotiate spend on selected suppliers and allocate volume, sign and monitor Contracts, Frame agreements and Service Level Agreements, support for material price and Terms & Conditions control throughout the value chain (from tender, ERP master data and oversees invoices control rules (tolerances, etc.), measure gaps tender/actuals investigate on root causes and take adequate corrective/preventive measures, support tender material costing and run tender specific negotiations where applicable.
• You will act promptly on assigned issues escalated according to escalation matrix, support analysis and reporting tasks, lead and/or support company and contractors' qualifications processes on assigned suppliers, support Supply Quality Management on company and contractors' qualifications processes on assigned suppliers, perform risk assessments, and join the audit team when required, support Supplier Performance Evaluations (SPE) on assigned tasks.
• You will work on improving assigned supplier performance measurements and improvement tasks, support assigned claim management to maximize compensation to the company and escalate as necessary, support Factory SCM in material cost cutting and risk mitigation projects.
• You will support on SCM related local activities for R&D, design-to-value, New Product Introduction, product cost improvement project, support technology transfer projects and other agreed improvement measures, make-or-buy studies and run SCM implementation, work closely with other functions to initiate, promote and support projects execution in order to bring value on total cost of ownership, risk mitigation, quality, cash, lead time, material availability.
• 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.

• You hold bachelor's degree or higher in one of the disciplines: supply chain, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, production management or similar.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in supply chain management or operation management.
• Experience in production/manufacturing environment is a plus.
• Proven skills in negotiation and contract management. Strong cost and technical analytical skills (cost breakdown, value chain, total cost of ownership, etc.).
• Self-starter and high initiatives, good planning and management skills & able to work under pressure, independently as well as in a team.
• Fluent in English, written and spoken.

• 16 days annual leave, flexible working policy.
• Benefit according to local standards: Heath-care insurance benefits to employees and their dependents, annual vaccination, summer outing.
• Growth possibility: Learning and development platform, career movement opportunity within organization.
• Possibility to gain experience in international environment.
• Possibility to work for industry leader for green energy solutions.