Senior Procurement Solutions Professional

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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.

About E&T Procurement

Caterpillar’s E&T Procurement organization plays a critical role in supporting all divisions within Energy and Transportation. Our work is geared towards our pistons of Predictable Supply Excellence, Optimized Total Cost of Ownership, Supplier Relationship Management and Lifecycle Sourcing Strategy. We continue to develop suppliers who competitively deliver operational excellence, enabling our customers to build a better world.  With a strong focus on data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency, E&T Procurement leverages advanced tools and processes to connect the physical and digital supply chain, enabling business units to deliver high-performance solutions that meet evolving customers and business needs

Job Summary:

As the Senior Procurement Solutions Professional, you’ll support the execution of designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring procurement capabilities to provide business solutions that are globally effective & applicable.

What You Will Do:

• Leading projects associated with lean processes, global market understanding, tools, and systems, focusing on Iron Casting and Machined Iron Castings.

• Designs and develops solutions, collaborates with senior stakeholders and business users to collect VOB/VOC, business requirements, and prepares implementation plans for successful deployment.

• Contributes to strategic initiatives such as the development of standardized best practices, offerings, services and developing the associated tools & training.

• Serves as the lead technical representative for a respective discipline and will work directly with a wide range of procurement / enterprise representatives, including presenting recommendations to senior leaders.

What You Will Have:

Data Analytics: Knowledge of techniques and processes for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data; ability to discover useful information, draw logical conclusions, and support decision-making.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Collects required data through various data sources and documents for evaluating trends and activities.

• Assists in preparing charts, graphs, tables, and other tools to represent the results obtained from data analysis.

• Research business-related data, analyzes, interprets, and presents findings to management.

• Recognizes and assesses problems, opportunities, and methods for improving existing business performance.

• Utilizes designated data analysis software to analyze the data.

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 Working Knowledge:

• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.

• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and use it for own communication effectiveness.

• Make oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.

• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.

• Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups

Matrix Management: Understanding of the importance of being able to leverage external resources when required and ability to build and use effective working relationships within own department and across department, functional, and geographic reporting lines.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Communicates effectively up, down, and across the organization.

• Balances requirements and deliveries from various functional areas.

• Describes basic viewpoint of own functional specialty.

• Under guidance, identifies and resolves potentially conflicting requirements.

• Keeps relevant functional and line associates involved on key project or tactical issues.

Procurement Function: Knowledge of responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of procurement function; ability to per