Solutions Owner I

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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.

Description

To support the deployment and embedding of the Network Planning and Execution (NPE) solutions and standard work within the enterprise, through engagement with business partners in the product groups and procurement teams. Build strong understanding of the supply network and the digital solutions to further the synchronization of the End-to-End supply chain.

Job Duties

This role will be collaborating with procurement vertical leads, suppliers, digital product owners, facility supply chain teams and S&OP coordinators in the product groups to drive the standard work and workflows developed over the last 18 months as part of the AoS initiative, to

• Understand Caterpillar demand requirements for internal and external suppliers and ensure the data in the NPE pass all the quality checks

• Understand and identify supply capability and constraints in the network and ensure the data is recorded in the NPE – Supply Planning after passing all the quality checks

• Onboard internal supply nodes into NPE – Capacity Collaboration and NPE – Supply Planning

• Deploy, teach and lead NPE suite of tools to internal and external suppliers

• Understand customer improvement feedback and collaborate with digital product owners to identify opportunities in product roadmaps for improvements

• Be an expert on NPE products and train end users on product application and process flows driving supply capability

In addition to the above, provide leadership to solution development and implementation to any workflow or standard work enhancements identified for continuous improvements.

Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.

Basic Qualifications

Four-year Bachelor’s degree preferably in supply chain, manufacturing, or equivalent experience

8 years of job-related experience, typically in supply chain planning, purchasing or operations, within a large enterprise

Top Candidates will also have

An understanding of Caterpillar’s supply network, Purchasing Practices, and Rough-Cut Capacity Planning.

Be digital minded, to understand and leverage the underlying technologies / digital solutions to drive business process transformation

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to interact across all levels of the organization from team members to procurement and operations VPs is required.
This position requires strong skills working with people from different backgrounds and cultures, internally and externally, and the ability to influence and resolve differences and issues.
The work environment requires this position to adapt quickly to high velocity and change.
Project and program management, including communication and change management planning is also required.

Additional Information

The location for this position is Mossville, IL

Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

This position may require less than 10% travel

Employee benefit details

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.

Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

Final details

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This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers .

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