Category Buyer I

hace 7 meses

Santa Catarina, México Caterpillar A tiempo completo

**Career Area**:
Procurement

**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.

**Job Summary**
Provides supply network solutions expertise, using Quality, Cost, Logistics, Development, and Management (QCLDM) to deliver maximum value.

**What you will do**
- Developing, managing, and executing the category strategy managing policies, agreements, source catalogs, and special procurement programs.
- Recognizing the potential for cost decreases, inventory reductions and quality improvement, as well as responsibility for soundness of business proposals and risk assessment.
- Acting as the liaison between the organization and the supplier to communicate information explicitly, while considering production demands and suppliers' conditions.
- Documenting the suppliers' performance on time sensitiveness and production; maintains a strong relationship with suppliers.

**Related Skills and Experience**
- **Data Analytics**:

- Intermediate Experience - Advises stakeholders on the relationship between financial, performance, and operational data; anticipates operational challenges of data collection and its integration with 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**:

- Intermediate Experience - Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching; adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.

Level Working Knowledge:

- 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.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.
- **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**:

- Intermediate Experience - Ensures negotiators have awareness of complementary yet diverse interests; successfully completes significant negotiations, both internal and external.

Level Basic Understanding:

- Describes qualities of effective and ineffective negotiations.
- Explains the basic concepts of negotiating.
- Accesses organizational policies and practices for negotiating.
- Utilizes techniques for establishing rapport and building trust.
- **Contracts Management and Administration**:

- Working Knowledge - Knowledge of policies, standards, and processes of how to manage and administer contracts; ability to use proper processes and practices for managing and administering a variety of contractual agreements.

Level Basic Understanding:

- Explains the responsibilities of the contracts administration function.
- Describes basic concepts and activities of managing existing contracts.
- Discusses organizational protocols, standards, and procedures for contracts management and administration.
- Identifies and interprets regular contracts administration reports.
- **Purchasing Tasks and Activities**:

- Working Knowledge - Knowledge of policies, regulations, and processes of purchasing; ability to use practices and procedures for procurement of materials, components, equipment, and services.

Level Working Knowledge:

- Records documents of purchasing tasks and activities, such as orders, bidding.
- Uses available procurement systems and tools.
- Ensures compliance with procurement regulations and contract specifications.
- Works with basic purchasing related tasks and activities.
- Adheres to various requirements and steps of the procurement process.
- **Supplier Relationship Management**:

- Intermediate Experience - Knowledge of supplier r

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