SCM Project lead

Career Area:

Supply Chain and Logistics

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, youre 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 dont 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.

Role Definition

Looking for resource who is having hands on experience in Project Management.

Experience is Purchase. SCM(Supply Chain management
and supplier quality us mandatory.

Experience in Warehouse and logistics management is required.

Certification in SCM or CPSM will be added advantage.

Should have team handling experience with minimum of 10+years

Overall 18+years of work experience is required.

Qualification :-

BE/B.Tech with relevant work experience is required.

Performs analysis to identify and develop business improvement opportunities and to evaluate return on investment (ROI) of the opportunity.

Responsibilities
Identifying, defining, and implementing integrated supply chain solutions and performance improvements, including building internal and external alliances to explore opportunities.
Establishing and governing effective linkages, partnerships, and best practices with business partners and internal functions.
Investigating and recommending industry benchmarks, metrics and best practices to develop optimal supply chains for suppliers and/or product sets.
Developing and analyzing data and information to identify and prioritize opportunities for improving performance and creating more cost-effective supply chains, inventory utilization, and business partnerships.

Skill Descriptors
Core Application Systems: Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
Helps create contingency plans to mitigate impact of disruption on core applications.
Identifies key players, criticalities, roles, and responsibilities.
Investigates application-related issues with both business and IT professionals.
Recommends enhancements for a major application system or related subsystems.
Works with core application systems for a major business unit or function.

Effectiveness Measurement: Knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement.
Level Working Knowledge:
Under guidance, reports measurement results in actionable form to management.
Interprets and analyzes results vs. established benchmarks.
Establishes short-range and long-range improvement goals for own function.
Uses assigned measurements for own function or specialization.
Under guidance, develops action plans to achieve those goals.

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 Extensive Experience:
Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.

Standard Operating Procedures: Knowledge of established standard operating procedures (SOP); ability to design, implement and evaluate standard operating procedures affecting daily and strategic business operations in order to increase operational efficiency.
Level Working Knowledge:
Adjusts SOPs according to changes in organizational and industry procedures.
Tracks deviations from and modifications to existing SOPs in business operations.
Ensures compliance with industry standards, regulations and policies.
Assists in establishing a standard operating procedure based on workflow and environment review.
Reviews the efficiency of standard operating procedures in terms of performance improvement.

Conflict Management: Knowledge of managing conflicts; ability to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.
Level Extensive Experience:
Mediates and resolves conflicts among individuals, groups, and departments.
Practices positive collaboration and converts difficult interactions into productive ones.
Guides participants in a conflict to rethink their current views.
Demonstrates good judgment in deciding when to involve a third party.
Makes parties aware of case studies of constructive and destructive conflicts.
Surfaces disagreements in early stages.

Vendor/Supplier Management: Knowledge of external provider management processes and ability to effectively manage the business relationship with external providers (e.g. vendors, service providers, contractors, consultants and suppliers).
Level Working Knowledge:
Works with vendors to assure that products or services are delivered to time and quality specifications.
Provides feedback on vendor performance to responsible contract administrators.
Resolves routine issues or problems with vendors in organizations best interest.
Identifies communications bottlenecks and recommends appropriate solutions.
Builds effective working relationships with counterparts in vendor or suppliers organization.

Supply Chain Management - PHA: Knowledge of strategies and tools for controlling and optimizing the factors that lie between the purchase of raw materials, components and supplies, and delivery of finished products.
Level Extensive Experience:
Demonstrates experience with managing the complete supply chain management process.
Quantifies and discusses benefits and risks of various supply chain strategies and approaches.
Discusses capacity issues at various points in the supply chain.
Oversees supply chain finance activities and measurements of effectiveness.
Participates in supply chain network design or redesign projects or processes.
Creates and monitors mechanisms for process and system integration with clients and partners.

Vendor/Supplier Evaluations Certification: Knowledge of vendor/supplier evaluations and certification; ability to develop and use, strategies, practices and tools for evaluating, selecting and certifying vendors, suppliers and partners.
Level Working Knowledge:
Obtains vendor or supplier product or service information.
Contacts references for vendors and suppliers; records the resulting information.
Searches for vendors or suppliers that match given criteria.
Reviews and documents products or services using specific steps.
Participates in selecting, evaluating, and certifying a specific vendor/supplier and product/service.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of essential job functions as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Posting Dates:

February 4, 2025 - February 10, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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