Junior Procurement Specialist

Overview

Junior Procurement Specialist at Hitachi Digital Services. This role reports to the Senior Director of Global Procurement. The sourcing professional will be responsible for the strategic sourcing of services and goods for the Facilities, Marketing, Human Resources, IT, and Finance categories in the Americas, with some projects and categories around the world.

Responsibilities

• As an individual contributor, serves as a trusted business advisor to stakeholders, providing best-in-class technical consulting from a sourcing and external benchmark/industry perspective.
• Manage the development and execution of sourcing projects, reverse auctions, and initiatives ensuring alignment with Hitachi Digital priorities and 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; collaborate 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.
• Manage strategic supplier relationships with cross-functional/cross-business impact covering multiple geographies within the Americas.
• Prepare contracts, partnering with Legal teams and suppliers and route the contract for sign-off; responsible for on-time renewal of contracts.

What You’ll Bring

• Entry level role with strong interest in Procurement Sourcing and Category Management.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Engineering preferred.
• Basic procurement law with correlating ability to author/negotiate/oversee: master service agreements, professional services agreements, statements of work, change requests, amendments.
• Experience in one of the following categories, but willing to train: Facilities, Marketing, Human Resources, IT, or Finance.
• Demonstrated track record of leading the sourcing process, working with stakeholders across businesses and geographies.
• Ability to communicate in order to influence and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong business acumen, including strategy, financial and operational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and must be a team player.
• Interest in gaining knowledge in negotiation skills with the ability to negotiate large-volume, high-risk deals independently.
• Strong supplier management skills.
• Strong computer literacy (Microsoft Office Suite), especially Excel.
• Able to pick up an eSourcing tool environment.
• Spanish and English; Portuguese is a plus.
• Able to navigate a fast-paced multinational environment with personnel from many regions and will foster excellent working relationships.
• Must be well organized, confident in navigating stakeholder demands, a self-starter with a willingness to learn and embrace new methodologies, while employing excellent communication, influencing and interpersonal skills.

About Hitachi Digital

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 status, 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.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Purchasing and Supply Chain

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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