Category Buyer Iii for Ap Harnesses

**Career Area**:
Procurement

**Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.**

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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.

**Description**

**Job Duties**

Improve the performance of the AP harness supply base

Identify and develop additional capacity

Build resiliency within the supply base through strategic sourcing

Strengthen the business relationship with the supply base

Collaborate across verticals to align activities

**Basic Qualifications**

Bachelor’s degree

3 years of work experience in purchasing or supply chain

Previous Buyer experience

**Additional Information**

The location for this position is Thiruvallur-RIOP CIPL Plant in India.

This position will require 25% travel

**Employee benefit details**

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 a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

**Skill Descriptors**
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 Extensive Experience:

- 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.

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.

Interpersonal Relationships: Knowledge of the techniques and the ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Working Knowledge:

- 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: 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.

Contracts Management and Administration: Knowledge of policies, standards and processes of how to m