Location:

Bac Ninh, Bắc Ninh, Vietnam

Job ID:

R0072270

Date Posted:

2024-12-27

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY VIETNAM COMPANY LIMITED

Profession (Job Category):

Customer Service & Contact Center Operations

Job Schedule: 

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

Mission Statement: 

Primary responsible for strategic sourcing of your assigned factory. This includes ensuring material quality, material availability, delivery performance and cost competitiveness. Review regularly the demand and supply balance to anticipate changes. Manage assigned spend with sourcing strategies to establish a resilient and sustainable sourcing strategy to meet targets on quality, total cost of ownership and supply performance. Focus on direct material management with end-to-end responsibility from sales bidding process to invoice payments.

This position will be based in Bac Ninh, Vietnam.

Your Responsibilities: 

• You will Set yearly budgets (spend, cost reduction, payment terms etc.) for your factory in line with HUB Supply Chain Manager and respective category strategies and support and implement HUB sourcing strategy in the factory by providing input (complementing P&F) to factory requirements to the RfQ and margin improvement processes.

• You will translate local material planning and logistics requirements (MOQ, packaging, communication processes) into service level agreements with suppliers and engage actively in spend management (correct input in SAP etc.).

• You will execute and deliver on agreed strategy deployment actions and follow-up responsible functions and other stakeholders, align and deliver targets with focus on safety, quality, timely delivery and cost, Regularly report financial performance and supply performance.

• You will be accountable for material price and terms & conditions control throughout the value chain (from tender, ERP master data and oversees invoices control rules (tolerances, etc.).

• You will measure gaps tender/actuals jointly with controlling, further investigate on root causes and take adequate corrective/preventive measures and Improve tender material costing and run tender specific negotiations where applicable.

• You will lead SCM activities related to order (sales order) execution by planning, assigning and executing tasks to secure availability and optimum costs and execute and deliver on agreed strategy deployment actions and follow-up responsible functions and other stakeholders.

• You will align and deliver targets with focus on safety, quality, timely delivery and cost, 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 and implementation of material cost reduction and risk mitigation projects.

• You will actively engage in sales and operations planning (S&OP) by providing input on critical material definition phase and material supply capabilities.   

• You will lead/support the commodity hedging process in line with factory controller and act promptly on issues escalated according to escalation matrix.  

• You will own factory cost reduction, cost avoidance, claim recovery reporting and SCM performance tracking.

• You must ensure contractor's qualification (CCQP) according to procedures and regulation, Lead supplier qualification for your factory, Conduct Supplier Performance Evaluations (SPE).

• You will oversee the supplier relationship with regular review contract execution, supply performance, improvement activities and future.

• You will act as second level escalation resolution owner on PO management and delivery to pay processes and lead supplier qualification for the factory and perform risk assessments.

• You will plan and assign audits to Supply Quality & Development Engineers, scout and research new suppliers and apply and implement SCM standards, tools and processes in the area of responsibility.

• You will 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 and implementation of material cost reduction and risk mitigation projects.

• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the disciplines: finance, supply chain, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, production management or similar.

• 8+ years of relevant experience in supply chain management or operation management.

• Experience from transformer or automotive industry is a plus.

• Proven skills in negotiation and contract management.

• Knowledge in manufacturing of power transformers, electrical steel, cores, insulation kits, insulation boards, bushings, tap changers and other transformer accessories.

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

• Good understanding in ISO standards, UN´s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, EcoVadis, REACH, RoHS, FMEA, PPAP and Conflict Minerals

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