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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.
Role Definition
Supports the execution of designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring procurement capabilities to provide business solutions that are globally effective & applicable.
Responsibilities
• Be the change driver. Champion Caterpillar's quality specifications, systems and requirements in Welding and Fabrication supply base.
• Being the single point of contact for welding technical excellence, certification, audits, field issues resolution and supplier quality improvement.
• Leading projects associated with lean processes, global market understanding, 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 develop 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.
Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired
AWS CWI or equivalent certification
Skill Descriptors
Quality Improvement: Knowledge of Continuous quality improvement and RCCA best practices and ability to use methods to implement them.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Auditing and certification of supplier personnel (welders) and processes, including the overall facility audit and certification.
• 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.
• Develop solutions for technical problems, including field complaints and implement and sustain them in the supplier environment.
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 Working Knowledge:
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• 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 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.
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.
• 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 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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Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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