Category Buyer I
hace 1 mes
**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**
Steel segment buyer is responsible for sourcing, procuring, and managing the supply of steel and steel-related materials required for manufacturing processes. Provides supply network solutions expertise for unformed steel category, using Quality, Cost, Logistics, Development, and Management (QCLDM) to deliver maximum value.
**What You Will Do**
- Developing, managing and executing the unformed steel category strategy for Mexico managing policies, agreements, source catalogs, and special procurement programs.
- Monitor global and local steel market trends, including pricing, demand, and supply chain dynamics.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with steel suppliers to ensure consistent quality and reliability.
- Ensure steel procurement complies with Caterpillar policies and purchasing practices.
- 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.
**Education requirement**
Bachelor’s degree in an area related to the field.
**What skills you will have**:
**Strategic Sourcing**
- Works with various basic components of strategic sourcing, such as data analysis, market research and purchasing budgets examination.
- Participates in enhancing institutional sourcing process continuously including identifying improvement opportunities.
- Conducts strategic sourcing activities in a limited environment.
- Follows relevant standards, policies and practices regarding strategic sourcing.
- Assists senior sourcing professionals with strategic sourcing in multiple environments.
**Negotiating**
- Ability to negotiate effectively
- 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**
- Administers locally relevant contracts for the department.
- Implements organizational protocols and procedures for contracts management.
- Explains the types of information required before a contract is signed.
- Reviews contracts to ensure compliance with contract specifications and regulations.
- Assists in creating files of relevant information for specific vendors, customers, or contracts.
**Purchasing Tasks and Activities**
- 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**
- Advises others on the organization's supplier relationship management practices.
- Builds consensus, resolves conflicts, and applies techniques to achieve influence and impact results with different suppliers in the organization's supplier network.
- Coaches juniors on selecting, evaluating, and managing suppliers.
- Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes in supplier relationship establishment and management.
- Evaluates the impact of SRM on the organization's different financials.
- Refines organizational processes for establishing and maintaining supplier partnerships.
**Effective Communications**
- 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.
- Advanced written and spoken English
- MBA
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
- Previous advanced experience in procurement, particularly in the steel or manufacturing in
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