Manager Procurement Solutions

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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
Delivers business solutions that are globally effective and applicable to support the execution of the procurement vision and strategy.

Responsibilities
•    Leading a group of individual contributors that deliver project associated with lean processes, global market understanding, tools, and systems. 
•    Managing the overall design and development of solutions, collaborates with senior stakeholders and business users to collect VOB/VOC, business requirements, and prepares implementation plans for successful deployment. 
•    Executing key strategic initiatives such as the development of standardized best practices, offerings, services and development of associated tools & training.
•    Driving adoption and identifying continuous improvement opportunities/projects, including standardization and simplification, and mitigating risks. 

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 Extensive Experience: 
•    Analyzes business processes, identifies alternative solutions to outdated processes and assesses their feasibility.
•    Evaluates financial, cultural, technological and other factors that need to be addressed.
•    Recommends new approaches that seek the use of advanced technology.
•    Establishes requirements for large changes in the overall mission, roles, responsibilities and processes necessary to make business improvements.
•    Participates in defining organizational strategic goals and purposes; defines how to gather and keep customers.
•    Works to overcome BPI resistance from managers, the labor force and other groups.

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.
•    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 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 Working Knowledge: 
•    Works to achieve win-win in negotiations, rather than taking a win-lose approach.
•    Focuses on issues rather than personalities.
•    Uses active listening and probing techniques to surface problems, issues, and interests.
•    Demonstrates a willingness to examine own position.
•    Presents own position and listens attentively to position of others.

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 deliverables 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.

Cost-Benefit Analysis: Knowledge of the principles and tools used in cost-benefit analysis; ability to analyze the purpose and scope of a producer, product, process, or project in terms of cost and benefits.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Follows organizational guidelines and procedures for conducting a cost-benefit analysis.
•    Participates in the development of a cost-benefit analysis.
•    Calculates common measurements such as NPV and ROI.
•    Documents and measures direct and indirect costs and projected benefits.
•    Resolves common errors or omissions in developing the analysis.

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 Working Knowledge: 
•    Assists senior category professionals in creating categories based on spend analysis, market analysis, and other stages of the category management lifecycle.
•    Follows established procedures, guidelines, and approval level requests to perform procurement activities.
•    Identifies and documents challenges related to category management.
•    Participates in defining goals, KPIs, and objectives of the assigned category.
•    Utilizes basic tools and technologies to analyze procurement management data.

Procurement Function: Knowledge of responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of procurement function; ability to perform tasks and activities of the procurement functions or department.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Summarizes the mission, vision and objectives of the procurement function.
•    Follows procurement regulations and contract specifications to perform tasks.
•    Participates in meetings regarding relevant regulatory considerations and agencies of the procurement function.
•    Implements regular procurement programs, initiatives and issues.
•    Documents the steps and requirements of the procurement process.

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