**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. **Your Work Shapes the World** Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe. When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us. **Job Summary:** Provides supply network solutions expertise, using Quality, Cost, Logistics, Development, and Management (QCLDM) to deliver maximum value. **What You Will Do:** • Developing, managing and executing the category strategy managing policies, agreements, source catalogs, and special procurement programs. • Recognizing the potential for cost decreases, inventory reductions and quality improvement, as well as responsibility for soundness of business proposals and risk assessment. • Acting as the liaison between the organization and the supplier to communicate information explicitly, while considering production demands and suppliers' conditions. • Documenting the suppliers' performance on time sensitiveness and production; maintains a strong relationship with suppliers. **Education Requirement:** Bachelor’s degree **What Skills You Will Have:** **Data Analytics:** • Advises stakeholders on the relationship between financial, performance, and operational data used in business data analytics. • Anticipates operational challenges of data collection and its integration with decision-making. • Identifies correlations that reveal trends and determine conditions. • Evaluates the quality of data collected and the effectiveness of data analysis methods for evaluating business performance. • Interprets potential risks, threats, and opportunities involved with predictive modeling. • Directs the implementation of business data collection processes and educates junior employees on new data sources. **Effective Communications:** • 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. **Interpersonal Relationships:** • Explains impact of interactions with individuals and groups. • Identifies roles and responsibilities for self and others. • Demonstrates an understanding of alternative points of view. • Collaborates with departmental associates and management. • Adapts interaction style to situations and people. **Negotiating:** • Ensures negotiators have awareness of complementary yet diverse interests. • Successfully completes significant negotiations, both internal and external. • Details the risks of negotiation breakdown from each party's perspective. • Protects own position, while demonstrating willingness to achieve win-win. • Identifies similarities and differences in position and assesses impact on discussions. • Detects and addresses lack of progress or a stalemate. **Contracts Management and Administration:** • Administers locally relevant contracts for the department. • Implements organizational protocols and procedures for contracts management. • Explains the types of information required before a contract is signed. • Reviews contracts to ensure compliance with contract specifications and regulations. • Assists in creating files of relevant information for specific vendors, customers, or contracts. **Purchasing Tasks and Activities:** • Records documents of purchasing tasks and activities, such as orders, bidding. • Uses available procurement systems and tools. • Ensures compliance with procurement regulations and contract specifications. • Works with basic purchasing related tasks and activities. • Adheres to various requirements and steps of the procurement process. **Supplier Relationship Management:** • Advises others on the organization's supplier relationship management practices. • Builds consensus, resolves conflicts, and applies techniques to achieve influence and impact results with different suppliers in the organization's supplier network. • Coaches juniors on selecting, evaluating, and managing suppliers. • Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes in supplier relationship establishment and management. • Evaluates the impact of SRM on the organization's different financials. • Refines organizational processes for establishing and maintaining supplier partnerships. **Strategic Sourcing:** • Works with various basic components of strategic sourcing, such as data analysis, market research and purchasing budgets examination. • Participates in enhancing institutional sourcing process continuously including identifying improvement opportunities. • Conducts strategic sourcing activities in a limited environment. • Follows relevant standards, policies and practices regarding strategic sourcing. • Assists senior sourcing professionals with strategic sourcing in multiple environments. **Additional Information** The location for this position is Mossville, IL. Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position. This position may require up to 25% travel. **What You Will Get:** Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides: + Competitive Base Salary + Annual incentive bonus plan* + Medical, dental, and vision coverage + Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.) + 401k savings plan + Health savings account (HSA) + Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) + Short and long-term disability coverage + Life Insurance + Paid parental leave + Healthy Lifestyle Programs + Employee Assistance Programs + Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection) *Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines. **Final details** Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status. _This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at_ _www.Caterpillar.com/Careers_ _._ For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media \#LI **Summary Pay Range:** $110,520.00 - $165,840.00 Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar. **Benefits:** Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits. + Medical, dental, and vision benefits* + Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)* + 401(k) savings plans* + Health Savings Account (HSA)* + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)* + Health Lifestyle Programs* + Employee Assistance Program* + Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts* + Career Development* + Incentive bonus* + Disability benefits + Life Insurance + Parental leave + Adoption benefits + Tuition Reimbursement * These benefits also apply to part-time employees Relocation is available for this position. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers. **Posting Dates:** February 14, 2025 - February 25, 2025 Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen. EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply. Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .