Site Sourcing Manager

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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.

Manages function and staff responsible for procurement of materials and services needed in the manufacturing process.

• Defining and communicating rules for supplier bids and managing purchases. Evaluating the qualification of suppliers and negotiating prices.
• Managing staffing, development, and performance management programs for procurement teams; managing, motivating, and developing project and team leaders.
• Assessing purchasing decisions through the analysis of historical and market information; recommending improvements.
• Managing the quality of purchased goods and services vis-a-vis requirements. Solving major supplier related problems.

Operational Functions: Knowledge of major functional processes and associated operating requirements; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

Level: Working Knowledge

• Works to resolve obstacles related to goals of own department.
• Documents regulatory and reporting requirements.
• Assesses situations based on awareness of the goals and operating issues of own department.
• Seeks guidance when assigned goals conflict with departmental goals or overall strategy.
• Carries out responsibilities that contribute to role of own department within the organization.

Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.

Level: Working Knowledge

• Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
• Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
• Creates process flow or workflow diagrams.
• Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
• Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.

Initiative: Being proactive and committing to action on self-identified job responsibilities and challenges; ability to seek out work and the drive to accomplish goals.

Level: Working Knowledge

• Identifies and exploits own strengths; minimizes limitations.
• Provides appropriate degrees of attention to both personal and professional priorities.
• Explains how own motivation relates to the workplace.
• Utilizes available tools or approaches for increasing knowledge of self-motivation.
• Learns and uses resources the organization has to assess and enhance team motivation.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

Level: Working Knowledge

• Provides prompt and effective responses to client requests and interactions.
• Monitors client satisfaction levels on a regular basis.
• Alerts own team to problems in client satisfaction.
• Differentiates the roles and responsibilities in a business relationship.
• Works with clients to address critical issues and resolve major problems.

Problem Management Process - MFG: Knowledge of manufacturing problem management processes, methodologies and techniques; ability to use a disciplined approach to bringing that problem to a successful resolution.

Level: Working Knowledge

• Uses a specific discipline or approach to problem solving and resolution.
• Records common problems and associated resolution alternatives.
• Monitors problem resolution and provides feedback to customer.
• Implements the established procedures for handling non-standard or unusual problems.
• Works with features of problem reporting and tracking software.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Knowledge of the concepts, principles and techniques of root cause analysis (RCA); ability to use a structured…