Global Supply Base Management Leader

Hitachi Rail • Lodi, Lombardy • Posted May 30, 2026

About the Role

Description

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The opportunity:

Lead the strategic evolution of the global supply base to create competitive advantages in total cost, resilience, quality, and innovation. This role bridges Category Strategy and Factory Execution, transforming key suppliers from transactional vendors into strategic partners. You owe the health of the supplier ecosystem, ensuring suppliers deliver performance today while being ready for future technology, capacity, and sustainability demands.

How you'll make an impact:

  • Maintain a multi-tier map of critical parts/services to identify sub-tier concentration risks and hidden
  • Own the supplier journey from onboarding/qualification (with supplier Quality) through performance governance to phase-out/offboarding.
  • Run capacity and constraint “stress tests” aligned with the 3-year growth plan; flag bottlenecks and define mitigation (capacity reservation, tooling, alternates).
  • Run execu...