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.
JOB PURPOSE: This role is accountable for delivering business solutions that include integrating Global Supply Network and/or other functional capabilities. Capabilities are Moderately Complex and Standard and include, but are not limited to, network design and engineering, packaging, transportation, strategic sourcing, category management, network visibility, data analytics and management that are globally effective and applicable. In addition, this role is also accountable for providing direction to solution owners who will be developing capabilities to create value for the business.
JOB DUTIES: Major Role: Deliver Moderately Complex and Standard business solutions by integrating Global Supply Network capabilities that produce consistent results through proper deployment and adoption. This position is accountable for setting the vision for global supply network solutions to meet enterprise or business unit needs. 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 also be accountable for driving adoption and identifying continuous improvement opportunities including standardization and simplification, and mitigating risks.
This position may serve as process owner and subject matter expert for the developed solutions. This position leads a group of solutions owners, project leaders, functional experts, and / or operations supervisors.
This position will typically direct their team in the development of several concurrent business/commercial pursuits in various stages of development. Their team will work closely with SME's from other disciplines and under the direction of a Solutions Owner/Project Leader to provide functional support to the development of a viable, profitable and compelling solution for the supply network. The position will work with the GSND's functional areas to ensure alignment with our process partner's objectives and provide value to the enterprise by establishing Solution Offerings for the 5 Rights.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or 10+ years of relevant experience
- 8+ years of job-related experience in
Procurement
Supply Chain
Purchasing Experience
Purchasing Practices
Governance IAAS Audit experience related to Procurement
Contracts Management - NDSA, MSA, JV Data Analytics Experience
- 3+ years of experience applying Six Sigma or 8D or other structured problem-solving techniques.
Top Candidates will also have
- 6 Sigma Black Belt Experience
- Experience in negotiation and excellent communication skills
Additional Information:
The primary location for this position is Mossville, IL
Additional location includes Dallas, T
Domestic relocation assistance is available
This position may require 5% travel
Sponsorship is not available
This posting will close at midnight on October 21, 2022
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 .
For more information, visit caterpillar.com.
Relocation is available for this position.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
