Supplier Localization Specialist

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Supplier Localization Specialist, you’ll be at the forefront of driving Siemens Energy’s localization initiatives in Saudi Arabia, working on impactful projects that enhance our supply chain’s efficiency and compliance with local content requirements. Your expertise will be pivotal in fostering strong relationships with suppliers, clients, and partners, ensuring that Siemens Energy meets its contractual obligations while contributing to the region’s economic growth.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Develop and implement comprehensive localization plans for Compression products, aligning with Siemens Energy’s strategic objectives and contractual obligations.
• Coordinate sourcing and supplier qualification activities to maximize local content, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including engineering, procurement, and suppliers, to streamline processes and enhance supplier performance.
• Conduct thorough offer assessments and negotiations, ensuring optimal techno-commercial evaluations and vendor compliance.
• Manage vendor relationships, focusing on qualification, development, and performance improvement to meet cost, quality, and time targets.
• Support sales proposals by providing insights on local content, aiming for competitive pricing and timely order acquisition.

What You Bring

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering, or business administration with a strong technical affinity, complemented by 5-7 years of procurement experience.
• In-depth knowledge of Saudi localization programs and contractual law, with a proven track record in negotiating and managing supplier relationships.
• Exceptional negotiation and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and build lasting partnerships.
• Proficiency in data analytics and cost modeling, coupled with effective problem-solving skills under pressure.
• Cultural sensitivity and responsiveness, ensuring respectful engagement with diverse groups and maintaining high personal integrity.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office and familiarity with SAP, enabling efficient management of procurement processes.

About the Team

Our Transformation of Industry division is decarbonizing the industrial sector. Increasing electrification and efficiency are key and demand for green H2 and derivative fuels will rise. We enable decarbonization of the industrial sector and the transition to sustainable processes, building on a strong industrial customer base, a global network, diverse technologies, and integrated execution capabilities.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• Opportunities to work with a global team
• Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
• Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform

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