Job Description
At Hitachi Energy, our Services business plays a critical role in keeping Australia's power system reliable, safe, and future‐ready. We are now looking for a Supply Chain Manager – Services to build, lead, and continuously elevate our end‐to‐end service supply chain.
Responsibilities
* Develop and execute local Services SCM strategy, aligned with global service strategies and targets, building a robust, compliant, and competitive supplier ecosystem covering installation, retrofit, testing, commissioning, logistics, and specialist services.
* Act as a key contributor to tenders, RFQs, and major service contracts, ensuring competitive pricing, back‐to‐back terms & conditions, healthy project cash flow, accurate costing and supply chain insights to support Service Sales and bid teams, and lead or support supplier negotiations to drive total cost of ownership improvements.
* Oversee sourcing, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and order acknowledgements within ERP and procurement tools.
* Lead local and overseas procurement, logistics, freight forwarding, customs clearance, and site delivery, ensuring HSE and compliance requirements are met and coordinating between supply chain, project teams, service leaders, and suppliers during execution.
* Establish, negotiate, and manage framework agreements and service level agreements aligned with corporate policies.
* Drive supplier qualification, performance evaluation, and continuous improvement, ensuring supplier compliance with quality, sustainability, safety, and ethical standards, full compliance with internal procedures, financial controls, and external regulations.
* Apply and continuously improve SCM standards, tools, and processes (including ERP and sourcing platforms), championing safety, integrity, and operational excellence in all supply chain activities.
* Ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, business, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
* Strong experience in supply chain management within the energy, electrical, or industrial services sector.
* Solid understanding of OEM‐based service environments, ideally involving transformers, high‐voltage equipment, and grid technologies.
* Proven experience with contract negotiation, supplier management, and logistics (local & international), comfortable working across ERP systems (e.g., SAP), sourcing portals, and structured procurement tools, with strong commercial acumen, analytical mindset, and ability to balance risk, cost, and delivery.
* Confident stakeholder manager who can influence across sales, operations, finance, and global teams.
* Proficiency in English communication.
EEO Statement
Qualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if they are unable or limited in their ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site as a result of their disability. Please include contact information and details of the required accommodation to support you during the job application process.
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