Digital Procurement Solutions Lead

Caterpillar Inc.; Mossville (IL); On-site; USD 148,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off (vacation, holidays)

401(k) savings plans

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Career development

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Procurement Solutions Manager to lead Power and Energy's digital and analytics team, building data integrity and global visibility for procurement capabilities.

You will design, develop, deploy, and monitor solutions that are globally effective and applicable across business units. You will manage a team of contributors, align with senior stakeholders, collect VOC, and implement standardized best practices, tools and training while driving adoption and continuous

Qualifications

• 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.
• Knowledge of techniques and processes for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data; ability to discover useful information, draw logical conclusions, and support decision-making.
• 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.
• 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.
• Knowledge of responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of procurement function; ability to perform tasks and activities of the procurement functions or department.

Responsibilities

• Leading a group of individual contributors that deliver project associated with lean processes, global market understanding, tools, and systems.
• Managing the overall design and development of solutions, collaborates with senior stakeholders and business users to collect VOB/VOC, business requirements, and prepares implementation plans for successful deployment.
• Executing key strategic initiatives such as the development of standardized best practices, offerings, services and development of associated tools & training.
• Driving adoption and identifying continuous improvement opportunities/projects, including standardization and simplification, and mitigating risks.

Skills

Business process improvement

Data analytics

Effective communications

Category understanding

Procurement function

Tools

PowerBI

AI

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. is seeking a Procurement Solutions Manager to lead Power and Energy's digital and analytics team, building data integrity and global visibility for procurement capabilities.

You will design, develop, deploy, and monitor solutions that are globally effective and applicable across business units. You will manage a team of contributors, align with senior stakeholders, collect VOC, and implement standardized best practices, tools and training while driving adoption and continuous