Career Area:
Procurement
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
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.
Role Definition
Lead Category Management responsibilities for Global Electronics and Electrical components. Manage strategic breakthrough categories to deliver year-over-year Quality-Cost-Logistics-Development-Relationship Management performance improvement.
Responsibilities
Accountable for the development, communication, and implementation of a worldwide category strategy
Develop and deliver Supplier Strategies aligned with category strategy.
Be the compliance champion for the scope of work.
Identifying performance gaps within the supply base and developing improvement plans for the identified gaps.
Lead Supplier resiliency-related initiatives.
Manage Supplier and internal customer relationship management.
Improve Contract coverage with the supply network.
Build a high-performing team through individualized capability-building plans.
Work with regional category managers to ensure alignment on category and supplier strategies.
Work closely with engineering process partners to enable flawless New Product Introduction (NPI) and New Source Introduction (NSI)
Skill Descriptors
Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Extensive Experience:
Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience:
Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
Negotiating: Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Expert:
Leads complex, high-impact or volatile negotiations involving high business risks.
Advocates a win-win approach to negotiating.
Explains appropriateness of using adversarial negotiating versus joint problem-solving techniques.
Overcomes resistance to the negotiation process.
Teaches others the subtleties of negotiating strategic or high-impact agreements.
Negotiates complex matters involving multiple parties.
Audit and Compliance Function: Knowledge of major responsibilities and tasks of Audit and Compliance (A&C) function; ability to manage the operation of A&C function in various business environment.
Level Extensive Experience:
Manages one or more A&C functions or units.
Facilitates compliance-related business process implementation or improvement initiatives.
Implements specific organizational changes made in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Contributes to development of A&C strategies and plans.
Improves key relationships and dependencies among Audit, IT and other business functions.
Contributes to the establishment of best practices for A&C.
Business Intelligence: Knowledge of business intelligence; ability to utilize business processes and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data that helps the organization make better business decisions.
Level Expert:
Champions the adoption and application of BI to new situations and environments.
Establishes the standards, policies and strategies for the organization based on BI indicators.
Leads discussions based on results of poor intelligence; cites cases about ineffective use of BI.
Creates processes to verify the accuracy and relevance of BI tool-generated information.
Presents BI-generated information at executive, board and shareholder meetings.
Defines key BI performance indicators that assess the present state of business.
Category Management: Knowledge of category management within an organization's goods and services sector; ability to use this knowledge to analyze and improve the end-to-end procurement process and maximize business profitability.
Level Expert:
Analyzes recent trends and developments related to category management and procurement and discusses future implications.
Establishes best practices in category management and develops related training programs.
Formulates a procurement strategy that utilizes the benefits of category management to streamline the procurement process and maximize business profitability.
Identifies and defines KPIs to track and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the procurement process.
Oversees the category management processes for all categories and provides technical guidance during implementation.
Promotes the use of emerging tools and technologies for implementing the category management process.
Supplier Management: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience, and skills into real practice.
Level Expert:
Establishes best practices for monitoring supplier efficacy, reliability, and performance.
Leads the evaluation of product plans/directions for impact on supply chain requirements.
Mentors others in the resolution of complex supplier issues; consults on the trends of supplier management.
Leads in the development of evaluating, selecting and certifying processes for suppliers.
Oversees large supplier networks at the enterprise or global level.
Develops supplier strategies; monitors the marketplace for competitive suppliers.
Strategic Sourcing: Knowledge of strategic sourcing methods, technologies, and processes; ability to analyze, improve, and re-evaluate organizational procurement process continuously.
Level Expert:
Deploys and directs strategic sourcing in multiple and diverse environments and applications.
Plays a leadership role in establishing strategic sourcing standards, policies, strategy and best practices.
Leads discussions on industry and marketplace trends and directions regarding strategic sourcing, citing relevant case studies.
Mentors others on all major strategic sourcing functions, issues and considerations.
Develops a theoretical background and understanding of strategic sourcing and provides a historical and future perspective.
Influences organization-wide or high-impact decisions and initiatives directly regarding strategic sourcing.
Basic Qualifications:
Previous purchasing, operations or supply chain knowledge experience required.
Prior leadership experience required.
Bachelor's degree - or equivalent experience required (5 years).
10+ years job related experience.
Proficiency in English is required.
Incumbent must have advanced communication and negotiation skills.
Top Candidates will have:
Professional certification in Purchasing and/or Inventory Management preferred, ex.; Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.), Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) and Certified in Integration Resource Management (CIRM), or comparable international certification is preferred.
Experience working on category playbooks and contract management is preferred.
Industrial Engineering and understanding of lean principles preferred.
Knowledge of Quality Management Systems and Cost Modeling tools preferred.
Additional Information
The location for this position is Mossville, IL.
Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
This position will require up to 50% 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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Posting Dates:
February 23, 2024 - March 5, 2024
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
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