Supply Chain Manager

The opportunity:

At Hitachi Energy, our Services business plays a critical role in keeping Australia’s power system reliable, safe, and future-ready. We are now looking for a Supply Chain Manager – Services to build, lead, and continuously elevate our end‑to‑end service supply chain. This is a high‑impact role at the heart of our Local Service Unit (LSU), working across projects, service operations, suppliers, and global teams to ensure we deliver for customers such as utilities, renewables developers and major industrial players. If you thrive in complex environments, enjoy building supplier ecosystems, and want to see your decisions directly influence safety, cost, delivery, and customer satisfaction—this role is for you. As Supply Chain Manager – Services, you will own and drive the end‑to‑end supply chain for service delivery across High Voltage & Transformers. You will translate global supply chain strategy into local execution, while shaping a resilient, competitive, and scalable supplier network in Australia. You will operate as a trusted partner to Service Sales, Project Managers, and Service Leaders - supporting everything from tendering and contract negotiations through to logistics, import/export, supplier performance, and cost optimization. This role reports to the Local Service Unit Manager and collaborates closely with global and regional SCM teams.

How you’ll make an impact:

• You will develop and execute the local Services SCM strategy, aligned with global Hitachi Energy service strategies and target, build a robust, complaint, and competitive supplier ecosystem covering installation, retrofit, testing, commissioning, logistics, and specialist services, proactively identify and mitigate supply, cost, quality, and delivery risks across the service portfolio.

• You will act as a key contributor to tenders, RFQs, and major service contracts, ensuring competitive pricing, back‑to‑back terms & conditions, and healthy project cash flow, provide accurate costing and supply chain insights to support Service Sales and bid teams, lead or support supplier negotiations to drive total cost of ownership improvements, oversee sourcing, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and order acknowledgements within ERP and procurement tools.

• You will lead local and overseas procurement, logistics, freight forwarding, customs clearance, and site delivery - ensuring HSE and compliance requirements are met, ensure smooth coordination between supply chain, project teams, service leaders, and suppliers during execution, establish, negotiate, and manage framework agreements and service level agreements aligned with corporate policies.

• You will drive supplier qualification, performance evaluation, and continuous improvement, ensure supplier compliance with quality, sustainability, safety, and ethical standards, ensure full compliance with internal procedures, financial controls, and external regulations.

• You will apply and continuously improve SCM standards, tools, and processes (including ERP and sourcing platforms), champion safety, integrity, and operational excellence in all supply chain activities.

• You will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

• 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 in supply chain, Engineering, Business, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).

• Strong experience in Supply Chain Management within the energy, electrical, or industrial services sector.

• Solid understanding of OEM‑based service environments, ideally involving transformers, high‑voltage equipment, and grid technologies.

• Proven experience with contract negotiation, supplier management, and logistics (local & international), comfortable working across ERP systems (e.g., SAP), sourcing portals, and structured procurement tools and strong commercial acumen, analytical mindset, and ability to balance risk, cost, and delivery.

• Confident stakeholder manager who can influence across sales, operations, finance, and global teams.

• Proficiency in English communication.

More about us:

At Hitachi Energy Australia, we offer you:

• Our flexible working practices help you optimize personal and business performance while creating an environment where all employees can develop their skills and grow.

• International working environment and empowering working culture.

• On Job Training will help you to grow and enhance your skills.