Procurement Specialist

Our Company:
We're Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest growing division of Hitachi Group. We're crucial to the company's strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the massive and fast-moving digital transformation market.

Our group companies, including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara and more, offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from initial idea to full-scale operation and the infrastructure to run it on. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating domain knowledge and digital capabilities, and harnessing the power of the entire portfolio of services, technologies, and partnerships, to accelerate synergy creation and make real-world impact for our customers and society as a whole.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

The team:
Reporting to the Sourcing & Procurement Leader, India. This sourcing professional will be responsible for the strategic sourcing of services and goods for the Facilities, Marketing, Human Resources, IT and Finance categories primarily in India, with some projects/categories around the world. This sourcing professional will also have the exposure to work with the global team for global category project execution.

**Procurement Specialist

Pune/Bengaluru

The role:

Responsibilities:**

• As an individual contributor, this sourcing professional will serve as a trusted business advisor to stakeholders, providing best-in-class technical consulting from a sourcing and external benchmark/industry perspective.
• This professional will be responsible to prepare contracts, liasioning with Legal team & supplier and route the contract for sign off. This person will also be responsible for on-time renewal of contract.
• Manage the development and execution of sourcing projects, reverse auctions, and initiatives ensuring alignment with the overall priorities and objectives of Hitachi Digital as well as the specific business function.
• Develop and maintain a best in class global preferred supply base for respective area of responsibility.
• Lead Sourcing events, reverse auctions, collaborating with stakeholders to define scope, identify suppliers and develop internal recommendations.
• Lead negotiations with suppliers on a variety of contracts, to ensure maximum value and minimum risk to Hitachi Vantara.
• Manage strategic supplier relationships with cross functional/cross business impact covering multiple geographies within the Americas.
• This professional will be responsible to prepare contracts, liasioning with Legal team & supplier and route the contract for sign off. This person will also be responsible for on-time renewal of contract.

What You'll Bring

• Min 4+ years of experience in Procurement sourcing and category management.
• Solid understanding of basic procurement law with correlating ability to author/negotiate/oversee: master supply agreements, professional services agreements, statements of work, change requests, amendments.
• Experience in one of the following categories: Facilities, Marketing, Human Resources, IT or Finance.
• Demonstrated track record of leading the sourcing process, working with stakeholders across businesses and geographies.
• Proven ability to communicate, influence and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels of an organization.
• Strong business acumen, including good strategy, financial and operational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and must be a team player.
• Excellent negotiations skills with the ability to negotiate large volume, high risk deals independently.
• Strong supplier management skills.
• Strong computer literacy (Microsoft Office Suite), especially Excel
• Experience working in eSourcing tool environment a plus.

Other Requirements

• Able to navigate a fast-paced multi-national environment with personnel from all over the many regions and will seek to foster excellent working relationships.
• Must be well organized, confident in navigating demands from stakeholders, a natural self-starter with a willingness to learn and embrace new methodologies, whilst employing excellent communication, influencing and interpersonal skills.

Education
:

• Bachelor's degree

Certifications:
Holding certifications in the below is a plus:

• Procurement related certifications through ISM or other recognized entity.
• Legal and commercial negotiations

About us:
We're a global, 1000-strong, diverse team of professional experts, promoting and delivering Social Innovation through our One Hitachi initiative (OT x IT x Product) and working on projects that have a real-world impact. We're curious, passionate and empowered, blending our legacy of 110 years of innovation with our shaping our future. Here you're not just another employee; you're part of a tradition of excellence and a community working towards creating a digital future.

Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How We Look After You
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status
or any other protected characteristic.
Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.