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 Global Supply Network capabilities to provide business solutions that are globally effective & applicable. Capabilities include standard lean processes, global market understanding, tools, and systems. In addition, this role is accountable for performing user acceptance testing and providing required training, coaching, and necessary materials.
Job Duties
To design, develop, deploy, and monitor assigned capabilities that produce consistent business results. This position will ensure successful deployment through training and coaching users to drive adoption and continuous improvement. To successfully design and develop solutions, the successful individual will collaborate with senior stakeholders and business users to collect VOB/VOC, business requirements, and prepare implementation plans for successful deployment.
This position will work together with Project Leaders and other Solution Owners to provide input specific to the functional scope and capabilities, business processes & configuration, costing, and establish solution offerings. They will recommend areas for proactive service offering improvements. Collects and interprets voice of the customer information to direct new and enhanced service offerings.
This role will also be called upon to contribute to strategic initiatives such as the development of standardized best practices, offerings, services and develop the associated tools & training. In addition it will serve as the lead technical representative for its respective discipline and will work directly with a wide range of SPPD & enterprise representatives including presenting recommendations to senior divisional leaders.
This position may serve as process owner and subject matter expert for the developed solutions.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree - or equivalent experience required (3 years of procurement)
Minimum of 3 -5 years job related experience
Top Candidates will also have
Proficiency in English is required; Local site language preferred
Previous 6 Sigma Greenbelt/Black Belt experience preferred
Incumbent must have well-developed communication skills
Top candidates will be knowledgeable with Purchasing Practices and audit processes.
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL & Dallas, TX.
Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
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
Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application - please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.
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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