Career Area:
Purchasing & Procurement
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.
When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don't just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in - the roads, hospitals, homes and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer's needs. Join us.
Description
This role is responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring procurement capabilities to provide business solutions that are globally effective & applicable. Capabilities include standard lean processes, global market understanding, digital tools, and platforms. In addition, this role is accountable for performing user acceptance testing, standard work development, providing required training, coaching, and necessary materials.
Specifically, as the Digital Product Owner, you can expect to:
Serve as the lead digital product owner enabling the source to contract transformation, including collecting VOB/VOC, business process alignment, functional requirements, business rules, and workflow development are delivering a world-class customer experience based on customer value maximization and waste elimination. The module scope includes Sourcing, Category Workbench, and Item Master.
Work directly with a wide range of Caterpillar's Strategic Procurement & Planning Division (SPPD) team members, enterprise representatives, and suppliers including presenting recommendations to senior divisional leaders.
Own the quality of designed workflows to ensure successful deployment through training and coaching users to drive adoption. Use analytic tools to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Manages process partner groups or deployment sites through the "delta-dip" process and technology change.
Recommend areas for proactive service offering improvements.
Collects and interprets voice of the customer information to direct new and enhanced service offerings.
This position may serve as process owner and subject matter expert for the developed solutions.
The successful candidate must bring (Basic Qualifications):
A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
At least 5 years of IT/procurement/supply chain experience, specifically related to sourcing & category management
Top candidates will also bring:
Strong technical background working with application development or support
Strong collaboration skills demonstrated through working within the workgroup, across departments, functional roles.
Masters' degree in business, computer science, information systems, or related disciplines.
Advance knowledge of Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Project.
Change Management Certification
Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
Experience in direct procurement, GIS, or supply chain roles.
Additional Details:
The location of this position is in Dallas, Texas or Peoria, Illinois
Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
This position may require up to 10% travel.
Employee benefit details
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
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This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers .
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