Manager Category Procurement

**Career Area**:Procurement**:
**Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.**

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**Your Work Shapes the World**

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.

**About the Position**:
Manages strategic breakthrough categories to deliver year over year Quality Cost Logistics Development Management (QCLDM) performance improvement.

**The primary responsibilities for this position will be to (but not limited to)**:

- Accountable for the development, communication, and implementation of a worldwide sourcing strategy for a specific category.
- Identifying performance gaps within the supply base and developing improvement plans for the identified gaps.
- Collaborating with the Supply Network on risk mitigation and using predictive cost modeling both geographic and component-based.
- Identifying, developing, and managing a high-performing global supply network for one or more categories leveraging Procurement Classification Codes (PCC).

**Required Skill and Experience**:

- Degree or equivalent experience desired

**Skill Descriptors**
Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Working Knowledge:

- Contributes to short-term operational plans.
- Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
- Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
- Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
- Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Individual
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.

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.

Audit and Compliance
Audit and Compliance Function: Knowledge of major responsibilities and tasks of Audit and Compliance (A&C) function; ability to manage the operation of A&C function in various business environment.
Level Extensive Experience:

- Manages one or more A&C functions or units.
- Facilitates compliance-related business process implementation or improvement initiatives.
- Implements specific organizational changes made in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
- Contributes to development of A&C strategies and plans.
- Improves key relationships and dependencies among Audit, IT and other business functions.
- Contributes to the establishment of best practices for A&C.

Business Intelligence: Knowledge of business intelligence; ability to utilize business processes and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data that helps the organization make better business decisions.
Level Extensive Experience:

- Evaluates alternative BI products in terms of their potential value to organization.
- Develops targeted marketing campaigns based on BI analysis.
- Develops pro