Career Area:

Supply Chain and Logistics

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 EPD

Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

Role Definition
We have an exciting opportunity for a high performing person to join our team in North America.  Our team of procurement professionals secure and manage capacity at our supply chain partners for Large Electric Power division packaged Gensets. 

The new addition is both strategic with a focus on future demand and securing capacity with partners across the US and ROW.  It is also executing whether that be working with our customers and business partners to deliver the build plan or supporting our suppliers as they ramp up and begin working with us at Cat.

Engaging with our global partners this role is in place to ensure we have secured capacity with suppliers who can work to Caterpillar standards, deliver on time and with an excellent quality product.

The person will be a self-driven, highly motivated individual, they must be able to work of their own initiative.   Experience in Gensets, Engines, Power systems would be advantageous.  Other key experience would be commercial negotiations, with a focus on contracts.  Supply Chain planning with SOP, Supplier development would also be desirable.  This role is supported by a great team of legal, business resources and engineering professionals. 

The person will be able to communicate effectively to all levels of the organization and must have a logical mindset. 

Responsibilities

• Establish strategies and planning methodologies that support demand growth over the next 5-10 years, this role will be focused on the longer term planning aspects of Supply Chain management.

• Identifying, defining, and implementing integrated supply chain solutions and performance improvements, including building internal and external alliances to explore opportunities.

• Developing, implementing, and managing complex supply chain streams with global reach

• Management of the commercial aspects of securing capacity as well as being able to lead studies into the most suitable options to meet customer demand

• Establishing effective linkages, partnerships, and best practices with business partners and internal functions.

• Investigating and incorporating industry benchmarks, metrics and best practices to develop optimal supply chains for suppliers and/or product sets.

• Developing and analyzing data and information to identify and prioritize opportunities for improving performance and creating more cost-effective supply chains, inventory utilization, and business partnerships.

• Managing relationships and processes with suppliers to ensure adequate product supply to meet inventory strategies. Providing leadership for new supplier selection.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Business Markets: Knowledge of existing and planned markets and market-related initiatives from the perspectives of the competition, the suppliers, the customer base and the regulatory environment; ability to apply market knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Recognizes key players and major competitors in a market.
• Summarizes strategies related to key operating issues and key players within the market.
• Researches characteristics of an assigned market and its segments.
• Monitors regulatory and reporting environment within an assigned market.
• Collects information relevant to business strategies and initiatives.

Effectiveness Measurement: Knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Under guidance, reports measurement results in actionable form to management.
• Interprets and analyzes results vs. established benchmarks.
• Establishes short-range and long-range improvement goals for own function.
• Uses assigned measurements for own function or specialization.
• Under guidance, develops action plans to achieve those goals.

Global Perspective: Knowledge of issues, opportunities, and challenges for conducting business in the international marketplace; ability to apply global perspectives appropriately in a wide range of situations.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Coaches others on legal, regulatory, and financial issues across multiple countries.
• Participates in developing current and planned infrastructure for conducting global business.
• Advises on the application of global policies to regional and local operations.
• Compares and contrasts opportunities and challenges for countries within a region.
• Oversees current projects using experience with conducting business in several countries.
• Coordinates country-specific legal and financial compliance reviews.

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
• Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
• Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
• Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
• Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
• Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.

Project Administration: Knowledge of project administration best practices and ability to use organizational strategies, practices and tools for administering projects.
Level Basic Understanding:
• Explains concepts of phase, activity and task.
• Provides examples of project data that is tracked.
• Identifies deliverables, resources and dependencies in project plans.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of organizational project management practices and tools.

Supply Chain Management - PHA: Knowledge of strategies and tools for controlling and optimizing the factors that lie between the purchase of raw materials, components and supplies, and delivery of finished products.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Demonstrates experience with managing the complete supply chain management process.
• Quantifies and discusses benefits and risks of various supply chain strategies and approaches.
• Discusses capacity issues at various points in the supply chain.
• Oversees supply chain finance activities and measurements of effectiveness.
• Participates in supply chain network design or redesign projects or processes.
• Creates and monitors mechanisms for process and system integration with clients and partners.

Contingency and Disaster Recovery Management: Knowledge of manufacturing contingency and disaster recovery approaches, practices, tools and techniques; ability to develop and administrate contingency and disaster recovery plans.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Adheres to related processes and procedures in a contingency plan.
• Executes established procedures necessary to continue operations in an emergency.
• Schedules, supports, and documents disaster recovery trials and tests.
• Documents contingency and disaster recovery procedures.
• Participates in the design and development of a basic contingency and disaster recovery plan for specific environment.

Vendor/Supplier Evaluations & Certification: Knowledge of vendor/supplier evaluations and certification; ability to develop and use, strategies, practices and tools for evaluating, selecting and certifying vendors, suppliers and partners.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Obtains vendor or supplier product or service information.
• Contacts references for vendors and suppliers; records the resulting information.
• Searches for vendors or suppliers that match given criteria.
• Reviews and documents products or services using specific steps.
• Participates in selecting, evaluating, and certifying a specific vendor/supplier and product/service.

Additional Information:

• Ideally the candidate will have broad knowledge of CAT systems, and an understanding of enterprise procedures along with compliance management.

• Locations: Dallas, TX, Houston, TX, Alpharetta, GA, Griffin, GA, Peachtree City, GA, Lafayette, IN and Peoria, IL

• Relocation: Relocation assistance is available for this position. 

• Sponsorship: Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

• Travel: 25%-50% Unites States based travel.

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus. Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays.

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Posting Dates:

November 26, 2024 - December 5, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.   

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