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*career area*:purchasing & procurement*:*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 greater than 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.caterpillar has an exciting opportunity for a buyer!
in this role, you will be responsible to establish and execute a sourcing strategy, optimize total cost of supply and drive world class supplier performance following the qcldm framework.
*job purpose*: provides supply network solutions expertise, using quality, cost, logistics, and development management (qcldm) to deliver maximum value.
*job related statistics*: attributes will typically fall into the following levels.customer effect: multiple business unitsmarket difficulty: leverage or acquisitionprocess difficulty: simplesupplier location: multiple sites - one countryspend: generally between 50 and 100 million*job duties*: to serve as the primary contact between caterpillar and the supply base for global/regional initiatives, including filling the functional seat for commercial discussions/negotiations with suppliers, being the recognized expert for his or her assigned portion of the global category, supports development and execution of global category strategies, and drives performance excellence in quality, cost, logistics, development, and management (qcldm) through direct leverage with the supply base partnering with supplier development professional (sdp) personnel and product/facility procurement organizations.
buyer may also be a supplier lead for suppliers with multiple source buyers.
this role is responsible and accountable for the development, and/or communication and implementation of a, regional, or worldwide sourcing strategy.
responsible for development, management and execution of the global category strategy, managing policies, agreements, source catalogs, and special procurement programs.
accountable for the liaison with the corresponding source buyers.leadership - provide leadership for strategic sourcing - qualified supply network, business continuity, supplier risk management - capacity & financial, contract management, supplier commercial negotiations, cost/spend management - tca assurance, supplier on boarding/off boarding, lead/response time optimization and resource management decisions