Category Manager - Transformers and Components
Hitachi
- Quebec City, QC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Perform total cost of ownership (TCO) sourcing activities and/or mitigate risks.
- Conduct negotiations and establish contracts and service level agreement for regional suppliers and monitor contract compliance.
- Collaborate technically with Engineering to propose application alternatives and drive consolidation within the category.
- Drive cost reduction based on technical requirements and data analysis.
- Analyze commodity spend, market dynamics, and price developments. Collect and rationalize inputs from factories to feed into sourcing strategy.
- Regularly communicate strategy including quarterly CIPS reviews and negotiations results to factories in the region to deliver market allocation, price, lead time, MOQ, and Terms & Conditions information and control its usage in the local ERP systems.
- Support factory implementation of the strategy in a timely manner. Drive selected regional or factory level SCM projects.
- Actively promote standardization.
- Manage and resolve critical supplier shortcomings.
- Develop cost breakdown analysis, should costing, and run regular benchmarks for responsible categories tied to key raw material index’s.
- Ensures that group and local health, safety and environmental guidelines and directives are implemented as top priority.
- 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.
- up to 25% travel
- Master's degree in Business & management.
- Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.