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

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors

Core Application Systems: Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Helps create contingency plans to mitigate impact of disruption on core applications.
• Identifies key players, criticalities, roles, and responsibilities.
• Investigates application-related issues with both business and IT professionals.
• Recommends enhancements for a major application system or related subsystems.
• Works with core application systems for a major business unit or function.

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.

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.

Conflict Management: Knowledge of managing conflicts; ability to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Identifies and maximizes areas of agreement in order to mitigate tensions.
• Uses a specific methodology for conflict resolution.
• Facilitates reconciliation rather than divisiveness among individuals.
• Under guidance, appropriately confronts others to get issues out in the open.
• Uses active listening skills and probing techniques to understand cause of a conflict.

Vendor/Supplier Management: Knowledge of external provider management processes and ability to effectively manage the business relationship with external providers (e.g. vendors, service providers, contractors, consultants and suppliers).
Level Basic Understanding:
• Describes how to access organization's policies and processes for using external resources.
• Identifies the roles and responsibilities of own and vendor or supplier's staff.
• Cites examples of different partnering arrangements.
• Lists types of vendors, partners or suppliers used in the organization.

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 Working Knowledge:
• Works with a specific part of supply chain management process.
• Describes applications and technologies used to manage supply chain.
• Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.
• Interprets walk-throughs of the consumption stream and associated provision stream.
• Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.

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: Alpharetta, GA, Griffin, GA, Peachtree City, GA, Lafayette, IN and Peoria, IL

• Relocation: Relocation assistance is not available for this position.  Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected applicant.

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

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:

August 26, 2024 - September 9, 2024

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

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