Sr. Automotive Supply Chain SME-69859

Function IoT

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world’s potential. We’re people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what’s now to what’s next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration. Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job description

Meet Our Team

Join a high-impact team focused on transforming automotive supply chain operations through data, analytics, and AI-driven solutions. We partner with leading automotive organizations to solve complex business challenges across vehicle planning, logistics, fulfillment, traceability, and operational intelligence. Our collaborative environment brings together business, technology, and data experts who are passionate about delivering measurable business value and driving innovation. If you enjoy influencing strategy, working with executive stakeholders, and shaping the future of automotive supply chains, you'll thrive on our team.

What you'll be doing:

As a Senior Automotive Supply Chain SME / Business Value Consultant, you will lead workshops with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to identify, prioritize, and define supply chain transformation opportunities. You will translate business challenges into actionable requirements, develop KPIs and value realization frameworks, and help shape AI-enabled operational intelligence solutions. Working closely with business, data, and technology teams, you'll contribute to solution roadmaps, support Control Tower and analytics initiatives, and build executive-level recommendations. Your expertise will help improve visibility, planning, fulfillment, traceability, logistics, and overall supply chain performance while ensuring solutions deliver measurable business outcomes.

What you'll bring to the Team:

You bring 20+ years of automotive supply chain experience, ideally within an OEM, Tier-1 supplier, or automotive consulting environment. You possess deep expertise in vehicle order-to-delivery processes, allocation and dealer fulfillment, demand forecasting, supply planning, distribution, logistics, recall management, VIN traceability, vehicle genealogy, and supply chain visibility. You have a proven history of leading transformation initiatives and collaborating with executive stakeholders to drive strategic outcomes. Strong facilitation, communication, and problem-solving skills enable you to translate complex business needs into practical solutions. Experience with Supply Chain Control Tower programs, operational intelligence, AI and analytics initiatives, and knowledge of GVID, VIN, and vehicle genealogy concepts are highly valued.

Technical Skills Required

• Supply Chain Control Tower platforms and operational intelligence solutions
• Supply chain analytics, business intelligence, and KPI development
• AI/ML-enabled decision support and predictive analytics use cases
• Data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms
• Advanced Excel, data modeling, and business case development
• Requirements gathering, process mapping, and workshop facilitation
• Automotive traceability systems including VIN, GVID, genealogy, and BOM structures
• Demand forecasting, supply planning, logistics, and fulfillment systems
• Experience working with ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, or equivalent enterprise applications
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and supply chain visibility solutions
• Familiarity with cloud-based analytics platforms and data ecosystems
• Strong understanding of system integration, process transformation, and digital supply chain initiatives
• Executive-level presentation skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to business stakeholders
• Experience partnering with business, data, and technology teams in Agile or hybrid project environments.

About us

We’re a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth. We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with. We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.