Supply Chain Planning Specialist

The opportunity

We are looking for a high-performance procurement professional to join the Hitachi Energy Procurement Team, which plays a key role in ensuring material availability for Production. The Team works in close collaboration with the Procurement Team Leader (Seville, Spain), Category Managers, Manufacturing team, and suppliers to guarantee continuity of supply, proactively address deviations, and support the execution of replenishment strategies defined at category level. By contributing to effective communication, timely problem‑solving, and continuous process improvement, the team plays a key part in securing service excellence and enabling smooth manufacturing operations.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Place and manage purchase orders based on inventory levels, planned demand in NetSuite, and the replenishment strategies established by the Team Leader and Category Managers.
• Ensure accurate and up‑to‑date data in our ERP (NetSuite), including delivery dates, request dates, quantities, and other related fields.
• Review stock availability, maintain adequate inventory levels, and align purchase orders with changes in demand or supplier schedules.
• Follow up with suppliers on a weekly/daily basis to secure on‑time deliveries, communicating changes in manufacturing planning when required.
• Resolve delivery incidents (damaged materials, quantity deviations, bumped goods) by coordinating with suppliers, warehouse, and manufacturing teams, ensuring issues are reported and closed correctly.
• Review and resolve invoice discrepancies related to quantities or pricing, updating NetSuite when applicable and escalating recurring issues for corrective action with suppliers.
• Support alignment between Procurement and Manufacturing by communicating relevant supplier information and helping mitigate delivery risks or bottlenecks.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance data accuracy, delivery performance, and procurement efficiency.
• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• 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

• Experience in Procurement or Supply Chain operations, ideally within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Strong attention to details and high accuracy when handling operational and ERP system data.
• Ability to work with ERP systems (NetSuite experience is a strong advantage).
• Good communication skills for collaboration with suppliers, Team Leader, Category Managers, Manufacturing team, and internal stakeholders.
• Capacity to follow defined processes, manage priorities, and deliver on deadlines.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English is required.
  
  

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.

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