Senior Procurement Solutions Professional

Job Description:

This role will support India local senior leadership in the coordination of regional procurement efforts to ensure efficient and effective growth of the supply base which is anticipated to grow up to 3-4x in the next 5 years. This role will be a key advisor to the senior India procurement team and interact with country management and Procurement and Product VP’s globally.

Key job duties are:

- Develop and enforce standard work for the Senior Procurement Country Management committee, as well regional Indian category sub councils, including process for escalation and prioritization
- Develop and maintain applications that coordinate senior/executive level visits to strategic suppliers, leading these visits when necessary
- Develop and maintain applications that help identify and prioritize supplier development activities and the assignment of lead resources in region
- Chair meetings for the India Procurement Country Management committee, recommending content, coordinating material development, and driving actions
- Develop, populate, and issue executive level metric reports on Indian supply base development to the VP, SVP and EO levels
- Work with the Senior Procurement Country Management committee and HR on talent development protocols for procurement professions in region as well as external recruitment strategies
- Drive information sharing across the regional India category sub councils

Role Definition
Supports the execution of designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring procurement capabilities to provide business solutions that are regionally effective & applicable.

Responsibilities
• Leading projects associated with lean processes, regional market understanding, tools, and systems.
• Designs and develops solutions, collaborates with senior stakeholders and business users to collect VOB/VOC, business requirements, and prepares implementation plans for successful deployment.
• Contributes to strategic initiatives such as the development of standardized best practices, offerings, services and develop the associated tools & training.
• Serves as the lead technical representative for a respective discipline, and will work directly with a wide range of procurement / enterprise representatives, including presenting recommendations to senior leaders.

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in business or related field. 12 -17 years of procurement experience highlighting consistent growth in responsibilities. Strong communication, relationship, and project management skills.

Skill Descriptors
Business Process Improvement: Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities.
Level Extensive Experience:
• 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 BPI resistance from managers, the labor force and other groups.

Data Analytics: Knowledge of techniques and processes for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data; ability to discover useful information, draw logical conclusions, and support decision-making.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Collects required data through various data sources and documents them for evaluating trends and activities.
• Assists in preparing charts, graphs, tables, and other tools to represent the results obtained from data analysis.
• Researches business-related data, analyzes, interprets, and presents findings to management.
• Recognizes and assesses problems, opportunities, and methods for improving existing business performance.
• Utilizes designated data analysis software to analyze the data.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience:
• 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.

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 Working Knowledge:
• Works to achieve win-win in negotiations, rather than taking a win-lose approach.
• Focuses on issues rather than personalities.
• Uses active listening and probing techniques to surface problems, issues, and interests.
• Demonstrates a willingness to examine own position.
• Presents own position and listens attentively to position of others.

Matrix Management: Understanding of the importance of being able to leverage external resources when required and ability to build and use effective working relationships within own department and across department, functional, and geographic reporting lines.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Communicates effectively up, down, and across the organization.
• Balances requirements and deliverables from various functional areas.
• Describes basic viewpoint of own functional specialty.
• Under guidance, identifies and resolves potentially conflicting requirements.
• Keeps relevant functional and line associates involved on key project or tactical issues.

Cost-Benefit Analysis: Knowledge of the principles and tools used in cost-benefit analysis; ability to analyze the purpose and scope of a producer, product, process, or project in terms of cost and benefits.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Evaluates alternative approaches to determining the cost-benefit ratio.
• Advises others on developing cost-benefit analyses in different organizational areas.
• 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.

Category Management: Knowledge of category management within an organization's goods and services sector; ability to use this knowledge to analyze and improve the end-to-end procurement process and maximize business profitability.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Assists senior category professionals in creating categories based on spend analysis, market analysis, and other stages of the category management lifecycle.
• Follows established procedures, guidelines, and approval level requests to perform procurement activities.
• Identifies and documents challenges related to category management.
• Participates in defining goals, KPIs, and objectives of the assigned category.
• Utilizes basic tools and technologies to analyze procurement management data.

Procurement Function: Knowledge of responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of procurement function; ability to perform tasks and activities of the procurement functions or department.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Summarizes the mission, vision and objectives of the procurement function.
• Follows procurement regulations and contract specifications to perform tasks.
• Participates in meetings regarding relevant regulatory considerations and agencies of the procurement function.
• Implements regular procurement programs, initiatives and issues.
• Documents the steps and requirements of the procurement process.

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.

Posting Dates:

May 31, 2024 - June 11, 2024

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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