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:
Executes the the planning, coordinating, governing and reporting procurements participation in the NPI process.

Responsibilities
•    Providing leadership for the NPI activities within procurement, including select sources taken from the category strategies and resource management decisions.
•    Monitoring and reporting NPI progress, holding NPI & design teams accountable for meeting quality and timeliness of requirements, and to assist the product group in managing procurement related capital. 
•    Working closely with operations and product development in creating a supply chain for a new product.
•    Researching and assessing existing and potential suppliers; making recommendations on supplier selection.

Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
 

Level Extensive Experience: 

• 12 to 16years of experienced
•  Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.
•  Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.
•  Productively balances speed and accuracy.
•  Employs techniques for motivating personnel to meet or exceed accuracy goals.
• Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.
• Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
• 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.

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
•    Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
•    Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
•    Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
•    Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Teamwork: Knowledge of the necessity and value of teamwork; experience with; ability to work cooperatively towards shared goals and being supportive of others at all levels.
 

Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Explains own role and responsibility within team.
•    Actively participates in team meetings.
•    Shares information, knowledge, and experiences openly and proactively.
•    Describes team mission and objectives in the context of results to be achieved.
•    Demonstrates open, friendly, accepting, and supportive behaviors with team members.

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
•    Under guidance, plans and estimates simple projects.
•    Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.
•    Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
•    Produces standard project status reports.

New Product Development (NPD): Knowledge of methodology, processes, and strategies of new product development; ability to develop an effective new product development (NPD) strategy and process to generate a range of products, services, and value propositions aligned with the organization's overall marketing and business strategy.
 

 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Analyzes and documents the performance of the organization's current portfolio of products, services, brands, and value propositions.
•    Assists in conducting business analysis of new products.
•    Implements a clear set of annual NPD priorities, based on the NPD strategy and the performance of the current product and service portfolio.
•    Researches key market and customer trends about competitor product offerings. 
•    Utilizes idea generation exercises across the business for the NPD process to achieve organizational buy-in.

Procurement: Knowledge of buying and procurement; ability to work with organizational strategies and practices, and use tools for buying goods, supplies, equipment and services needed to conduct business.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Works with the procurement of services, materials or equipment.
•    Follows established procedures, documentation requirements and approval level requests to conduct procurement activities.
•    Interprets benefits, issues and considerations of using e-procurement.
•    Uses available procurement systems and tools in transactions with approved suppliers.
•    Assists in reviewing the fulfillment of administrative and documentation requirements for the completion of purchase.

Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice.

 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.
•    Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.
•    Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates non-routine issues up chain of command.
•    Researches alternative vendors or suppliers; participates in supplier selection.
•    Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job.  At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.  

Posting Dates:

October 16, 2024 - October 30, 2024

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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