You as a Tender and Project Supply Chain will be part of Hitachi Energy business based in Cairo, Egypt. You will be responsible for establishing the Tender Sourcing Plan (TSP) based on the sourcing related conditions of the client's tender specification and PG global/ territory sourcing strategy and for facilitating its adoption by all parties during tender process.

During project execution phase, in close cooperation with the Project Execution team, you shall deploy the Tender Sourcing Plan (TSP) into a Project Procurement Plan (PPP) and ensure SCM related deliverables are achieved in relation to price, quality and delivery in line with project requirements.

Your responsibilities:

• Pro-actively participating in Tender-/ Capture Team during the kick-off and tender progress meetings for selected target projects
• Identifying of sourcing related opportunities and critical commercial, fiscal and legal conditions of the client's tender specification and ensure flow over to the bidding documentation to suppliers / contractors
• Developing schedules, estimates, forecasts, and budgets to support all procurement requirements under the tender and project.
• Issuing the project related Tender Sourcing Plan (TSP) based on the overall tender strategy, identified sourcing related opportunities and critical project conditions under consideration of the overall PG global/ territory sourcing strategies
• Collaborating with tender teams to identify new suppliers and supplier changes and ensures customer approval for Tender/project supplier list.
• Documenting the TSP in the Business Unit standard "TSP Template", if not retrieved from ABB Procure
• Communicating the TSP to the local tender team and involve Global, Division, BU, Territory Category Leaders, and Lead Strategic Sourcing Manager for affected commodities
• Receiving approval of the TSP from Tender Engineer and LPG Manager and Local SCM
• Ensuring that RfQ's are issued in compliance to the TSP (incl. tender specific terms & conditions)
• Defining, together with relevant Category Lead, the target price for main equipment
• Supporting tender responsible in issuing the project budget and time schedule by providing timely and accurately input from suppliers' quotations incl. provision/ commitment of anticipated qualified improvement potentials
• Ensuring that suppliers/ subcontractors considered in ABB's tender to the client are qualified according to ABB Supplier Qualification Process (SQP) and Sub-Contractor Qualification Process (CQPQ).
• Issuing together with tender responsible the tender specific list of vendors (subcontractors) to be used in our bid to the client
• Ensuring that supplier quotations remain valid until final placement of Purchase Order or until confirmation of tender project has been lost
• Providing required sourcing related information for Risk Reviews
• Participate in won-/ lost-order analysis and communicate sourcing relevant information to local-, Territory-, Global Strategic Sourcing Manager
• 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.

• A bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering discipline or business administration or any other qualification that is deemed suitable for the role
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in a project environment
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in a supply chain function
• Minimum 2 years of experience in procurement of tailored equipment
• Good knowledge of processes in industrial large and complex or turnkey contracts
• Strength in commercial/legal aspects of purchasing
• Excellent communication & proven negotiation skills
• Drive to continuously create results and innovative solutions
• Skilled communicator who can interface with numerous external and internal parties at different levels in a project environment.