Job Description
Location: Charlotte, NC A Snapshot of Your Day You will support operational purchasing activities for our greenfield power transformer factory, ensuring the timely and cost-effective procurement of materials and services. This includes evaluating and engaging suppliers, maintaining compliance with procurement processes, and conducting site visits as needed.
You will also contribute to procurement controlling activities by preparing reports, tracking key financial and performance metrics (e.g., cost savings, budget alignment, purchasing volumes), and consolidating data for management reviews.
How You’ll Make An Impact - Manage operative sourcing activities for categories such as transport, field service, packing materials, rubber bags, and other business‑specific requirements.
- Execute the full purchasing cycle, including placing purchase orders, obtaining order confirmations, resolving invoice discrepancies, and ensuring timely supplier payments.
- Ensure consistent application of globally defined procurement methods, processes, and systems to maintain high process efficiency and compliance (e.g., Purchase‑to‑Pay (P2P), procurement guidelines, IT tools).
- Coordinate with suppliers to meet operational and customer requirements, ensuring clear communication and timely escalation of risks to internal stakeholders.
- Support supplier‑related activities such as strategic evaluations, risk assessments, and data management within SAP Ariba.
- Support procurement controlling by monitoring purchasing volumes, preparing reports and presentations, and tracking cost‑saving initiatives to ensure accuracy and alignment with organizational objectives.
- Facilitate technical clarifications between suppliers and project execution teams when needed
What You Bring - 5+ years of experience within Procurement and bachelor’s degree in business or finance. Previous experience in the Energy industry or power transformers business is strongly preferred.
- Experience in procuring a broad range of operational materials and services, including transport, field service support, rubber bags, and other business‑specific materials
- Has knowledge of sending RFQ to potential suppliers for quotation, keeping in view the updated approved supplier list, and introducing new suppliers where necessary.
- Experience supporting internal external audits, ensuring compliance and process improvement, is a plus.
- If not already located in the Charlotte, NC area, must be willing to relocate (relocation assistance provided)
- Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.
About The Team The candidate will work in the power transformer plant in Charlotte, USA, presential, supporting the market growth for Power Transformers mainly in USA market.
At Siemens Energy, you can help lead the energy transformation, learn how you can make tomorrow different, today and support construction of a new factory. Siemens Energy believes that diversity and inclusion create more opportunities for success.
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:
Rewards - Career growth and development opportunities
- Supportive work culture and a healthy work- life balance
- Company paid Health and wellness benefits.
- Paid Time Off and paid holidays
- Savings Fund
- Above the law benefits
- Family building benefits
- Parental leave
- Competitive base salary
- Annual performance bonus
- Competitive total rewards package
Job Tags
Full time, Relocation, Visa sponsorship, Relocation package