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We are advancing the world’s energy system to be more sustainable, flexible, and secure, and we collaborate with customers and partners to enable a sustainable energy future - for today’s generations and those to come. At Hitachi Energy, whether you are a pioneer confronting the market, an engineer driving technological innovation, or an enabler enhancing organizational effectiveness - this is where your unique value converges. Your professional expertise will transcend conventional boundaries, making extraordinary contributions to our collective evolution.\nHow you’ll make an impact:\nYou will check PR from plants, create a PO by following the instructions of SOP, and release the PO to suppliers, send PO-related drawings to suppliers.\n\nYou will follow and maintain PO's OA and coordinate to get OTD from the supplier, receive PO change applications from plants, drive suppliers to meet the change request, maintain SAP, and give feedback to applicants if necessary.\n\nYou will be responsible for NCR handling, GR issues, and invoice issue handling, payment on time.\n\nYou will finish reports in the agreed timeline, achieve KPIs and train junior buyer operation skills.\n\nYou will be handling all kinds of purchasing modes, complex issues and driving performance improvement of suppliers with low performance independently.\n\nYou will be responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.\n\nLiving Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.\n\nYour background:\nYou hold Bachelor of Economics, Logistics, and other Engineering Major.\n\nMinimum 3 years or above purchasing experience in large industrial plants.\n\nERP capacity: Fluent in SAP/Oracle ERP system skills.\n\nGood at communication, careful, patient, with good customer service awareness.\n\nProficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.\n\nMore about us:\nWe pride ourselves on offering a holistic range of competitive benefit programs to support your financial, physical and mental wellbeing and personal development. We want you to truly thrive with us - in work and out. For this role, depending on grade and experience, we offer the following employee benefits (subject to the respective plan rules):\nUp to 30 days full paid leaves per year\n\nFlexible Benefit program (Supplementary Pensions included)\n\nMedical Insurance (outpatient and inpatient)\n\nLong service awards\n\nFlexible Working (subject to role)\n\nAre you ready for an exciting new challenge? Does the above description sound like you? Welcome to apply! Our selection process is continuous, and the position may be closed before the advertisement expires. So, if you are interested - don’t delay, apply today! All other questions can be directed to Talent Acquisition Partner (TP Name: Alice Zhao, Wechat：alicezhao2020).\nAccessibility and reasonable accommodation\nQualified individuals with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Hitachi Energy career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by completing ageneral inquiry formon our website. Please include your contact information and specific details about your required accommodation to support you during the job application process.\n\nThis is solely for job seekers with disabilities requiring accessibility assistance or an accommodation in the job application process. Messages left for other purposes will not receive a response.\n\nUse of Al and automated tools in recruitment\nAs part of our recruitment process, Hitachi Energy uses digital and automated tools, including Al-supported solutions, to assist with activities such as application screening, job matching, and interview scheduling. These tools are designed to support our recruiters and do not replace human decision-making. 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