Strategic Buyer & PPM

Strategic Buyer & PPM

About the Role
Job ID: 302167
Location: China, Jiangsu Sheng, Nanjing
Company: Siemens Energy Automation (Nanjing) Co., Ltd.
Organization: Gas Services
Business Unit: Central
Full / Part time: Full-time
Experience Level: Professional / Experienced

Location: 江苏省南京市江宁区江宁开发区吉印产业创新园E5栋

A Snapshot of Your Day
Join Siemens Energy and take ownership of both strategic sourcing and procurement project management activities that directly support transformer production. You will partner with suppliers, project teams, and stakeholders to secure the materials and services needed to deliver successful projects while driving cost efficiency, quality, and supply security. From shaping sourcing strategies and negotiating commercial agreements to leading procurement activities across tender and execution projects, you will play a key role in building a resilient supply chain. If you enjoy working in an international environment where your decisions influence project outcomes and long-term business success, this is an opportunity to make a tangible impact every day.

How You'll Make an Impact
- Lead strategic sourcing initiatives across direct and indirect categories, implement commodity strategies, develop preferred supplier portfolios, and analyze market trends to support sourcing decisions.
- Act as Procurement Project Manager within bid and execution projects, coordinating procurement activities, aligning stakeholders, securing the best sourcing solutions, and ensuring compliance with global procurement processes and standards.
- Build strong supplier partnerships by managing supplier relationships, supporting supplier segmentation, collaborating with commodity experts, and serving as a trusted procurement partner for internal customers.
- Negotiate contracts and commercial agreements including pricing, delivery schedules, payment terms, and sourcing strategies while driving early supplier involvement and cost optimization initiatives.
- Manage risk and continuously improve performance by monitoring supplier performance, implementing savings measures, reporting key KPIs, and working with commodity teams to enhance procurement processes and supply chain resilience.

What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree or above in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Around 4 years of procurement experience covering strategic sourcing, procurement project management, and operational procurement, ideally within an international business environment.
- Strong expertise in SAP, contract negotiation, claim management, supplier qualification and evaluation, RFX processes, eAuctions, and procurement strategy development.
- Proven ability to lead procurement activities in complex international projects, collaborate across functions, manage stakeholders and customer relationships, and conduct advanced international negotiations using data-driven decision-making.
- Advanced capabilities in Supply Chain Management, commercial and analytical disciplines, business acumen, and basic project management principles, along with advanced English proficiency for communication with global suppliers and international teams.

About the Team
SEAN is the leading control, electrical, digitalization & service solution provider in energy business of China. We support our customers' transit to more sustainable energy future with our innovate products.

SEAN is an affiliated company of Siemens Energy Co., Ltd. located at Nanjing. SEAN is one of the first companies that Siemens invested in China since 1993. Over the past three decades, as a high-tech enterprise, SEAN has been deeply rooted in the Chinese market, continuously innovating and enhancing business localization, growing into a trusted partner in the energy industry of China.

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 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.

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
• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Opportunities for continuous learning and development
• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
• Employee recognition programs and career advancement opportunities