Senior Manager Procurement Solutions - PROcure Sourcing & Cost Manager

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 :

In this role as a Senior Manager Procurement Solutions, you will be responsible for a team of individual contributors who will collectively transform the direct procurement processes for sourcing and cost-impact projects, including changing the way Caterpillar approves cost increases and creates cost change estimates via PROcure.

PROcure is a multi-year program that will reshape how our direct material buyers, category managers, and other functional support resources manage processes, collaborate, create insights, and drive business value all in one fully integrated system built on a strategic data platform.

You and your team will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring procurement capabilities to provide business solutions that are globally effective and applicable.

As a member of the Digital Supply team, you will need to have a growth mindset, promote continuous improvement, and help build a defect-free culture.

We have a fabulous team, and we can’t wait for you to join us!

What You Will Do :

• Lead a team of 6+ business process owners enabling the direct material procurement source to contract transformation via the PROcure Spend Analytics, Sourcing, Projects, and Should Cost Model modules, including cost impact reporting.
• Create and deliver robust functionality and supporting change management plans including clear and concise communications and effective global training.
• Create and sustain a support plan to drive end-user adoption and ongoing usage of the tools implemented.
• Own the quality of designed and configured modules to ensure successful deployment.
• Collaborate with and deploy changes to impacted category and business resources teams.
• Work directly with a wide range of procurement professionals, enterprise representatives, Strategic Procurement & Planning Division (SPPD) team members, and suppliers including presenting recommendations to senior leaders.
• Collect and take action on voice of the customer information to create new or enhanced service offerings.

Education Requirement :

A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.

What Skills You Will Have :

Business Process Improvement :

• Analyzes business processes, identifies alternative solutions to outdated processes and assesses their feasibility.
• Evaluates financial, cultural, technological and other factors that need to be addressed.
• Recommends new approaches that seek the use of advanced technology.
• Establishes requirements for large changes in the overall mission, roles, responsibilities and processes necessary to make business improvements.
• Participates in defining organizational strategic goals and purposes; defines how to gather and keep customers.
• Works to overcome resistance from managers, the labor force and other groups.

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.

Matrix Management :

• Analyzes issues and determines who needs to be consulted or updated.
• Helps others in understanding their roles and responsibilities within a matrix.
• Builds networks and effective working relationships in relevant organizational areas.
• Works to achieve consensus across organizational and functional lines.
• Describes viewpoints of several functional groups; identifies similarities and differences in position and assesses impact on discussions.
• Obtains timely decisions from multiple parties in an efficient manner.
• Detects and addresses lack of progress or a stalemate.

Cost-Benefit Analysis :

• Correlates quantified benefits with user objectives.
• Establishes best practices for quantifying costs and benefits.
• Recommends processes for selecting measurements and approaches for cost-benefit analyses.
• Collaborates with senior management in aligning strategies with organizational goals and industry benchmarks.

Procurement Function :

• Advises on how to use advanced technologies and tools for procurement functions.
• Provides appropriate solutions to complex procurement problems.
• Coaches others on the procedures and main considerations of procurement.
• Works with various complex procurement programs and activities in the organization.
• Improves processes to maximize procurement's efficiency and effectiveness.
30+ days ago