Junior Procurement Specialist

Hitachi Digital Services

  • Buenos Aires
  • Permanente
  • Tiempo completo
  • Hace 16 días
For Consideration, your resume must be submitted in English.Our CompanyWe'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 TeamWe are a global team and represent Hitachi Digital to external suppliers across industries, establishing business relationships to source IT solutions, hardware, and IT services to support the internal needs of the enterprise and other Hitachi companies, while delivering the optimal value and contributing to the business of Hitachi. We collaborate as a team and cross-functionally to ensure success that is celebrated and shared. Our contributions bring value to the business and we need people like you to drive results and to passionately articulate our value proposition.The RoleReporting to the Sr Director of Global Procurement. This 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/categories around the world. This sourcing professional will also have the exposure to work with the global team for global category project execution.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.
  • 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, partnering 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
  • Entry level role with strong interest of getting into Procurement Sourcing and Category Management.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business or Engineering Preferred
  • Basic procurement law with correlating ability to author/negotiate/oversee is a plus: master supply 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, or IT, 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 of an organization.
  • Strong business acumen, including good strategy, financial and operational skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and must be a team player.
  • Interest in gaining knowledge in negotiations skills with the ability to negotiate large volume, high risk deals independently.
  • Strong supplier management skills.
  • Strong computer literacy (Microsoft Office Suite), specially Excel
  • Able to pick up eSourcing tool environment.
  • Spanish and English. Portuguese is a plus.
  • 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.
About usWe'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.#LI-GG1

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