Procurement Solutions Professional

Career Area: Procurement 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.

Supports the execution of designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring procurement capabilities to provide business solutions that are globally effective connecting the physical and digital world’s of Caterpillar’s supply ecosystem. What You Will Do: • Leads sustainable process improvement by diagnosing and addressing root cause issues within complex business processes using Lean, 6 Sigma and project management methodologies and tools, such as transactional value stream maps and root cause analysis. • Designs and develops innovative solutions and automation capability by collaborating with senior stakeholders, business partners, domain knowledge SME's and digital resources.  Prepares and drives implementation plans for successful deployment. • Contributes to strategic initiatives such as the development of standardized best practices, offerings, services, and development of associated tools and training. • Drives end-to-end work migrations establishing sustainable operating models and accelerating value realization. • Serves as the lead technical representative for a respective discipline and will work directly with a wide range of global procurement and enterprise representatives, including presenting recommendations to senior leaders. What Skills You Will Have: Business Process Improvement: • Motivated self-starter compelled to innovate and execute their workload without prompting from supervisor. • Demonstrates a high degree of technical knowledge and intellectual curiosity. • Gathers data for use in the analysis of business processes related to procurement systems, procedures and policies. • Illustrates gaps, define problems with magnitude and amplitude, opportunities and methods for improving existing business processes. • Suggests ways to reduce variation and/or waste in processes. • Helps evaluate what factors and system controls should be addressed in the recommended changes. • Facilitates the requirements analysis for process changes and work with key process partners for their engagement and ideas with implementation plan. Data Analytics: • Collects required data through various data sources and documents them for evaluating trends and activities using power queries or SQL / Python codes. • 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 for executive summary. • Recognizes and assesses problems, opportunities, and methods for improving existing business performance based on the product / process value stream key success performance metrics. • Utilizes designated data analysis software like PowerBI to analyze the data, Microsoft forms for gathering survey, Microsoft power automate and flow to trigger notifications or alerts. Effective Communications: • Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient. • Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness. • Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work. • Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate to maintain engagement across business process partners. • Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups and tailor the right message for the audience. Negotiating: • Describes qualities of effective and