Operational Buyer

Mission statement:  Act as overall Regional PL representative for the Regional Leadership team concerning all PL related matters. These includes overseeing operational and strategic activities related to “Indirect Materials and Services (IM&S)”, “Direct”, “Trade and Logistics (T&L)” and “PL Global Business Services). Accountable for the stakeholder management within the Region in line with the IM&S, T&L and PL Practice Strategy – all PL Business Partners in the Region and therefore also the local buyer report into the Regional PL Operations Manager. Will implement and coordinate PL Excellence initiatives and cross-divisional Procurement & Logistics activities within the Region. Set and maintains a regional governance structure. Responsible for local statutory and compliance initiatives. Your responsibilities: You will be responsible for on-time delivery performance and operational supplier quality, responsible for processing orders, following up with suppliers, monitoring deliveries, and processing of order deviations and complaints. You will negotiate with supplier prices and deliver on time and create frame contracts to increase the price competitiveness and material availability. You will be responsible for the procurement of components and assemblies and collaboration with internal stakeholders such as Engineering, Project Management, and Production as well as internal /external Suppliers. You will ensure correct and precise master data including monitoring and adjusting system data, work on inventory reduction, and handling of error messages. You will contribute to definition, implementation, and execution of global/regional spend management and local sourcing strategies for IM&S, provide support for strategy development concerning Trade & Logistics where requested, foster and provide strategic support for process of direct materials where needed. You will take accountable for managing the function cost, head count and budget at regional level for Indirect Materials and Services, define and implement targets, monitor performance (quality and savings) and spend management key performance indicators within the Region. You will do challenge category teams and category leaders within the Region/Country as review board member via the continuous improvement process sourcing (CIPS) process, define together with the PL Business Partners and the Regional IM&S Sourcing head (job profile Category Manager) the implementation priorities of Sourcing initiatives and support the Sourcing for T&L if requested. You will implement HE PL initiative, directive, instructions, standards and procedures within the Region, implement and coordinate PL best practices, sourcing strategies, driving improvement, standardization of procurement process, solutions across the Region and in accordance with Group PL guidelines and IM&S as well as T&L objectives, implement programs to drive improvement in cost, quality, delivery and working capital, secure full utilization of Pro-Supply global supplier relationship management platform according to relevant procedure, both related to sharing of supplier information and to finding existing high performing suppliers to HE. You will oversee the Service Level provided by the PL Global Business Services for the Region, identify cross divisions shortfalls and trigger improvements in the GBS operation, establish clear and transparent communication internally, externally, and between different Divisions, Business Units and Functions through the Business Partner organization, foster compliance, implementation of PL activities and initiative in the Region/Country through this clear communication, also for direct material. You will implement HE standard on sustainability and business ethics as well as the Supplier Code of Conduct within the Region supply base, oversee the implementation, operation, maintenance and performance of Supply Chain systems within the Region and ensure (with HR Manager support) that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed, guide, motivate and develop direct and indirect subordinates within HR policies, for the benefit of both HE and the employee and coordinate talent management and succession planning process for lead PL positions in IM&S and T&L, arrange and deploy PL training programs 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: Technical or commercial educational background, with further technical or commercial education. Several years of experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment. Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills. Proficiency in languages: English & Japanese in both spoken & and written, other advantage.