Procurement Team Leader

You as a Procurement Team Leader will be part of Hitachi Energy High Voltage business based in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. You will be leading a functional work team of Buyers, Procurement Specialists and/or Analysts to deliver accurate and timely Procurement activities like transactional purchasing, e-Sourcing, data management and reporting. Ensuring execution in accordance with Company and Procurement and Logistics (PL) instructions and procedures.

Your responsibilities

• Managing execution and tracking of procurement activities within the team, while ensuring quality of delivery service at improved transactional cost. Ensuring buyers minimize risk regarding quality and financial exposure by buying in accordance with quality and commercial procedures and in accordance with Company guidelines.
• Ensuring the accurate application of Group PL guidelines and local Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to drive improvement in cost, quality, delivery and working capital (payment terms, lead times, order quantities and purchased material inventory). Proposing improvements to Standard Operating Procedures wherever opportunities for optimization are detected.
• Coaching and mentoring the functional work team. Ensuring that the team has appropriate skills and competencies to coordinate the PL activities.
• Executing the implementation, operation, maintenance, and performance of Supply Chain systems within the GBS Procurement Center. Securing full utilization of Pro-Supply global supplier relationship management platform according to relevant procedure, both related to sharing of supplier information and to finding existing high performing suppliers to Hitachi Energy.
• Investigating problems, finding root causes, and recommending improvement to existing and planned PL processes.
• Ensuring (with HR Manager support) that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Guiding, motivating and developing direct and indirect subordinates within HR policies and Group Procurement and Logistics excellence guidelines (knowledge management, functional training, etc.). Responsible for coordinating PL talent management and succession planning within assigned area.
• 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.

Your background

• A bachelor’s degree in electrical/mechanical engineer.
• Minimum of 10+ years of experience in managing procurement activities in power/energy/manufacturing industry.
• Hands on experience in managing large teams.
• Proven knowledge in P2P process and system.
• Hands on experience in SAP/MM module.
• Experience in MS office suite.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English and Arabic language is required.