
Junior Procurement Specialist
- Buenos Aires
- Permanente
- Tiempo completo
- 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.
- 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.