Procurement Solutions Professional

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.

Role Definition

Supports the execution of designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring procurement capabilities to provide business solutions that are globally effective & applicable.

Responsibilities

•            Leading projects associated with product group sourcing council processes, enterprise tools, and systems.

•            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 development of 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.

Degree Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Business Process Improvement: Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities.

 Level Working Knowledge:

•            Gathers data for use in the analysis of business processes.

•            Illustrates problems, opportunities and methods for improving existing business processes.

•            Suggests ways to reduce variation and/or waste in processes.

•            Helps evaluate what factors should be addressed in the change program.

•            Participates in requirements analysis for process changes.

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 them for evaluating trends and activities. Mange the regional dashboard thru collecting data from different sources(QCLDM, Supplier SPM, SER, SQPI/SVPI ect.)

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

•            Researches 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 uses it for own communication effectiveness.

•            Makes 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.

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 Basic Understanding:

•            Describes qualities of effective and ineffective negotiations.

•            Explains the basic concepts of negotiating.

•            Accesses organizational policies and practices for negotiating.

•            Utilizes techniques for establishi