Outline of the Job

As the Strategic Buyer, you will manage contracting and procurement of parts for the aircraft assembly line and directly report into the Strategic Procurement Manager. The core accountabilities for this role include supplier relationship management and delivering the commodity strategy for a given mix of suppliers.

• Support and/or lead key contract negotiations, including completing costs analyses and negotiations on terms and conditions
• Managing work queue, including the sourcing of parts/services, raising and management of purchase documents
• Supplier operations and relationship management within commodity group
• Cost reduction / cost management to support the cost targets
• Support and/or lead development and execution of commodity strategies
  * You must be open to traveling up to 25% of the time domestically/internationally.

Team Mission

The Strategic Procurement team transforms the commodity strategy into best cost parts supply by coordinating closely with the supply chain, the customer and the various related groups such as Engineering and Operational Procurement. The Strategic Procurement team is part of the Supply Chain Management function.

Job Highlights

• The role is broad and you will be able to work with all the business functions, customers and suppliers
• You will gain experience of collaborating with international and domestic suppliers on high technology projects.
• Development routes include direct promotion to Strategic Procurement Manager or growing into related roles such as Operational Procurement

Essential Skills

• Experience in international Procurement, Supply Chain Management or Commercial Contracting
• Ability to deliver results in various conditions, highlighting adaptability and perseverance
• Have a track record of managing product costs effectively
• Negotiation of contracts, pricing and claims
• Located in Japan

Desirable Skills

• Native Japanese / Business English
• Native English / Business Japanese
• Aerospace
• Oracle Netsuite
• Related experience such as Planning & Control, Engineering or Quality

Target Candidate

• Able to communicate proactively with a variety of stakeholders
• Those who can act on their own initiative
• Have good listening skills to draw out potential issues
• Have good negotiation skills
• Have the ability to drive the project forward

Type of Employment

• Permanent Employee or Contract Employee
• Probationary period: 3~6 month

Place of Employment

• Nagoya Airport Office: Nagoya Airport Terminal Building 2nd floor, Toyoba, Toyoyama-Cho, Nishikasugai, Aichi Prefecture
• Scope of Change: Places determined by the Company (including places where telework is performed)

Working Hours

• Flextime or Discretionary labor system
• Basic working hours: Start 9:00　End 18:00（Including 1hour break time）

Holidays

• 115 days off per year（Saturday / Sundays / Newyear holidays（12/29～1/3） / Company designated holidays）
• Annual paid leave
• Refresh leave (Granted after 1, 3, 4, 5 years of service)

Salary

• Annual salary paid in 12 monthly installments (including fixed overtime allowance)
• To be determined based on skills, experience, and abilities

Expenses

• Commuting allowance, business trip allowance, moving allowance, etc.
• Relocation Packages
  *There are some conditions.

Social Insurance

• Health insurance
• Employee pension (according to Japan standards)
• Employment insurance
• Worker’s accident compensation insurance

Scope of Work Change

• Reassignment may occur to any other work.

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This position requires Japanese fluency.

The Basics:

At Tanium, our Support Engineers fulfill a necessary role in our organization by serving our customers in resolving technical issues and answering technical questions in a timely manner. With a primary focus on customer satisfaction, Support Engineers work both reactively and proactively to improve the overall experience of our enterprise customers when using Tanium. This role reports to a Support Manager.

As a Support Engineer, you’ll have continuous opportunities to apply your best technical skills while building new skills ranging from scripting to debugging.

What You’ll Do:

• Assisting customers by:
  • Triaging inbound support cases
  • Solving customer support cases
  • Working with other Support Engineers to assist with their assigned cases
  • Answering customer questions in the Tanium community site
• Improve customer experience by:
  • Documenting best practices
  • Tracking activity, documenting root cause, and reporting
  • Serving as a technical subject matter expert, focusing mostly on the testing and troubleshooting aspects of the area
  • Testing Tanium and providing feedback to the Engineering teams on how we can improve the overall customer experience

We’re Looking For:

Education

• Associates degree or equivalent experience required
• BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, or similar experience a plus

Experience and Skills

Must Haves:

• 3+ years into their career field with solid technical skills in one or more areas of networking, security, operations, scripting, and/or programming
• Ability to master new concepts and technologies; continually striving to master the Tanium platform and modules
• Problem solving; can break problems down into manageable, ordered piece parts and successfully convey the problem statement and plan to others
• Aptitude for comprehending complex troubleshooting
• Good Judgement; understand the importance of weighing cost and value in decision making and practice making good judgement calls with improved consistency overtime
• Independent; should be able to independently work on problems; should be able to complete tasks with limited assistance; participate in projects and follow technical support procedures only requiring help on more complex enterprise initiatives or issues

Good to Have:

• Prior experience and breadth of knowledge needed to support customers
• Hands-on Tanium experience
• Relevant technical certifications (Google IT SupportProfessional Certificate, CISSP, MCSE,A+/Security+/Network+ combined, etc.)
• For Federal Roles only:
  • Security clearance or ability to obtain a security clearance may be required
  • 8140.1 training/8570 certification may be required
  • Prior military service in a related field (e.g. NavyCryptologic Technician - Networks, USAF 3D or 1B,Army 17C or 35Q, 25D, etc.) a plus
• Experience in one or more of the following technical domains: Endpoint Security, EndpointSupport/Troubleshooting, Incident Response, SystemsManagement, Utility Scripting (bash, PowerShell,VBScript, Python.)

About Tanium 

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.  

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Taking care of our team members 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

#LI-TO2

This position requires Japanese fluency.

The Basics:

At Tanium, our Support Engineers fulfill a necessary role in our organization by serving our customers in resolving technical issues and answering technical questions in a timely manner. With a primary focus on customer satisfaction, Support Engineers work both reactively and proactively to improve the overall experience of our enterprise customers when using Tanium. This role reports to a Support Manager.

As a Support Engineer, you’ll have continuous opportunities to apply your best technical skills while building new skills ranging from scripting to debugging.

What You’ll Do:

• Assisting customers by:
  • Triaging inbound support cases
  • Solving customer support cases
  • Working with other Support Engineers to assist with their assigned cases
  • Answering customer questions in the Tanium community site
• Improve customer experience by:
  • Documenting best practices
  • Tracking activity, documenting root cause, and reporting
  • Serving as a technical subject matter expert, focusing mostly on the testing and troubleshooting aspects of the area
  • Testing Tanium and providing feedback to the Engineering teams on how we can improve the overall customer experience

We’re Looking For:

Education

• Associates degree or equivalent experience required
• BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, or similar experience a plus

Experience and Skills

Must Haves:

• 3+ years into their career field with solid technical skills in one or more areas of networking, security, operations, scripting, and/or programming
• Ability to master new concepts and technologies; continually striving to master the Tanium platform and modules
• Problem solving; can break problems down into manageable, ordered piece parts and successfully convey the problem statement and plan to others
• Aptitude for comprehending complex troubleshooting
• Good Judgement; understand the importance of weighing cost and value in decision making and practice making good judgement calls with improved consistency overtime
• Independent; should be able to independently work on problems; should be able to complete tasks with limited assistance; participate in projects and follow technical support procedures only requiring help on more complex enterprise initiatives or issues

Good to Have:

• Prior experience and breadth of knowledge needed to support customers
• Hands-on Tanium experience
• Relevant technical certifications (Google IT SupportProfessional Certificate, CISSP, MCSE,A+/Security+/Network+ combined, etc.)
• For Federal Roles only:
  • Security clearance or ability to obtain a security clearance may be required
  • 8140.1 training/8570 certification may be required
  • Prior military service in a related field (e.g. NavyCryptologic Technician - Networks, USAF 3D or 1B,Army 17C or 35Q, 25D, etc.) a plus
• Experience in one or more of the following technical domains: Endpoint Security, EndpointSupport/Troubleshooting, Incident Response, SystemsManagement, Utility Scripting (bash, PowerShell,VBScript, Python.)

About Tanium 

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.  

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Taking care of our team members 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

#LI-TO2