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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
Manages a team that oversees the order to delivery supply chain to ensure availability of necessary commodities to support manufacturing or distribution.  Develops, implements, and manages supply chain strategies and solutions.

Responsibilities
•    Ensure the supplier value stream performance is consistent and synchronized with Solar’s demand.
•    Serve as the industry expert for a particular value stream category and develop and execute supplier sourcing strategies that support business growth and cost reduction targets while delivering year over year supplier performance improvement.
•    Act as an internal consultant on the availability of future commodities and the corresponding impact on design programs.
•    Identify performance gaps within the supply base and develop improvement plans for the identified gaps.
•    Provide leadership through the development, mentoring and training of their team to build the best Global Supply Chain team and drive business results.

Degree Requirement
Degree required

Skill Descriptors
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.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
•    Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
•    Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
•    Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
•    Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

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 Extensive Experience: 
•    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.

Leadership: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing, and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Utilizes an appropriate style of leadership: autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire/free rein, etc.
•    Utilizes positive reinforcement to motivate & attain desired behaviors; increases productivity.
•    Demonstrates leadership qualities: intelligence, dominance, persistence, integrity, confidence.
•    Employs leadership theories, such as contingency and transactional, and associated techniques.
•    Manages own behaviors during interactions, such as feedback giving, to shape workplace events.

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 Extensive Experience: 
•    Performs analysis on environmental and equipment configurations; develops disaster prevention plans and improves backup and recovery capabilities.
•    Participates in the development and distribution of procedures and practices regarding disaster recovery.
•    Delivers partial and full tests of the contingency and disaster recovery plan.
•    Coordinates the development, documentation and maintenance of contingency and disaster recovery plans for critical organizational functions.
•    Works with other functions and customers to coordinate contingency and disaster recovery planning.
•    Creates and tests a back-up environment; defines minimum operating requirements.

Contracts Management and Administration: Knowledge of policies, standards and processes of how to manage and administer contracts; ability to use proper processes and practices for managing and administering a variety of contractual agreements.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    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.

Strategic Sourcing: Knowledge of strategic sourcing methods, technologies and processes; ability to analyze, improve and re-evaluate organizational procurement process continuously.
Level Working Knowledge: 
•    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.

Supply Chain Management: Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in supply chain management; ability to develop and implement strategies, practices and tools for controlling the whole processes.
Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Quantifies and evaluates benefits and risks of various supply chain strategies and approaches.
•    Participates in joint planning, process design/redesign with clients and partners.
•    Monitors the complete supply chain management process.
•    Manages supply chain finance activities and measurements of effectiveness.
•    Consults on supply chain network design projects or processes.
•    Advises others on capacity issues at various points in the supply chain.

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. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Summary Pay Range:

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

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

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