Location: Monselice, Padova, ItalyJob ID: R Date Posted: Company Name: HITACHI ENERGY ITALY S.P.A.Profession (Job Category): Customer Service & Contact Center OperationsJob Schedule: Full timeRemote: NoJob Description: The Opportunity We're looking for a Category Manager who thrives on building long-term strategies, leading negotiations, and fostering supplier relationships. In this role, you'll shape the future of key material categories, ensuring our operations run smoothly with the right materials, at the right time, and at the best value — all while promoting quality, compliance, and inclusion. How you will have an impact: Analytics and Market Intelligence: analyze commodity spend, analyze market dynamics and price developments; compare spend cost development vs market development on total cost of ownership base. Sourcing Activities: as a spend owner assess, define, adjust and improve a HUB category strategy and plan (using CIPS methodology) in line with business needs and the PG procedures and regulations; align on the strategy with key stakeholders and communicate on a regular base; execute and deliver on agreed strategy deployment actions and follow-up on responsible functions and other stakeholders; align and deliver on the HUB category targets for KPIs with focus on cost, quality and timely delivery; regularly report on financial performance and supply performance; regularly review the balance of demand vs supply for critical materials. Take measures to secure supply vs demand and anticipate related to changes or non-repetitive/new requirements; promote emerging marketsourcing activities where it brings additional value; mandate Supply Quality & Development team in their undertaking for supplier issue resolution/hot topics. Negotiation and Contracting: collect detailed factory requirements; run tender/order specific RFx and negotiations where applicable; negotiate spend for selected suppliers; allocate volume. Sign and monitor Contracts, Frame agreements and Service Level Agreements (SLA). Cost Control Processes: provide input on price trend to BU Commodity Managers for the commodity guideline and to HUB sales bidding processes; distribute market allocation, pricing, lead times, MOQ (If applicable) and Terms & Conditions information to Factory SCM and/or relevant responsible person and control its usage in the local ERP systems; improve on tender and project material costing on demand or where appropriate; promote cost breakdown analysis, should costing and run regular benchmarks; have contracts approvedand approve PO as per applicable CAT/LAT. Supply Base Management: oversee the supplier relationship with regular review contract execution, supply performance, improvement activities and future; for suppliers in the HUB assign supplier