SENIOR LOCAL PROCUREMENT BUYER

Hitachi Rail is looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated SENIOR LOCAL PROCUREMENT BUYER who thrives in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate is comfortable performing a wide range of tasks from administrative to strategic. The position is based in Piossasco (Turin), Italy.

Who We Are
 

Hitachi Rail is a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions across rolling stock, signaling, service & maintenance, digital technology and turnkey. With a presence in 38 countries across three continents and over 13,000 employees, our mission is to contribute to society through the continuous development of superior rail transport solutions.

Mission

Achievement of procurement targets with reference to the assigned local commodities (i.e. goods or services with no/very low differentiation across different markets and their supply base) / categories (i.e. goods or services with high differentiation across different markets (i.e. geographical) and their supply base)

Accountabilities

• Ensure the formalizing of local procurement agreements/contracts in compliance with procurement delegated powers
• Ensure the respect of contracts agreements by implementing procurement actions required to solve identified issues of suppliers (payments terms, variation order, contract clauses) in collaboration with global commodity units, if needed
• Ensure capitalization and sharing with Global Procurement Unit and main stakeholders (e.g. engineering, supply planning…) of knowledge related to the spend local commodity / category (e.g. vendor intelligence, market knowledge)
• Ensure the local procurement activities during bidding and execution in accordance with Procurement Geographical Area strategy
• Support the issue of local Procurement Annual Operating Plan for projects/Bid
• Support the implementation and compliance with Company relevant Processes and rules for the assigned geographical area
• Ensure the definition and Implementation of the Local category/commodity sourcing strategy (incl. strategic alliances & pre-bid tie-ups)
• Ensure the implementation of RFI/ RFP / RFQ process & projections to support bid preparations for relevant local procurement commodity/ category in alignment with procurement internal processes and procedures
• Ensure Procurement Risk Monitoring & Control for the assigned local procurement activities
• Support the Post of Bid Award (Win-Loss-Variance) Analysis
• Ensure Supplier scouting to monitor and establish potential new Suppliers options, by providing price lists/ catalogues and Capability benchmarking
• Ensure the monitoring and reporting of economic and financial figures (budgeted v/s actual savings) for each assigned local commodity/category
• Contribute to the collection and provision to the SP unit of all Procurement data relevant- for the assigned local commodity/category- to make “Cost Estimation
• Template” for the specific bid
• Ensure, according to the supply plan/project schedule and inputs received by SP, the implementation of all the procurement activities for relevant local commodity