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Senior Sourcing Project Manager

Senior Sourcing Project Manager

CompanyCaterpillar Inc.
LocationPeoria, IL, USA
Salary$169320 – $253920
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Conducts business with one or two other countries
  • Follows policies and procedures governing business activities with another country
  • Obtains information regarding operational issues of other countries when making business decisions
  • Assesses key legal, regulatory, and financial issues specific to a particular country
  • Recognizes behaviors that promote or stunt effective relationships in that country; acts accordingly
  • 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
  • Analyzes and fully documents client requirements
  • Applies experience to developing and executing multiple consulting assignments
  • Works with business to identify alternative solutions and associated pro’s and con’s
  • When leading project, prepares proposals and presentations
  • 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
  • Understands the group’s go-to-market strategy
  • Raises awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships
  • Explains elements of the strategy to others and encourages questions
  • Monitors marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities; reports findings
  • Makes sound recommendations when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives
  • Reinforces and reiterates linkages between the team’s work and the vision
  • Makes decisions grounded in relevant tenets of the vision
  • Eliminates from consideration those scenarios that are inconsistent with the vision
  • Surfaces constructive dissent
  • Evaluates stakeholder profiles, roles, claims and interests in an organization and how these may conflict
  • Consults stakeholders in identifying opportunities for strategic change while evaluating the strategic choices available to an organization
  • Manages conflicting stakeholder priorities, when implementing strategic-change initiatives
  • Oversees business operations and resource allocation with strategic objectives and the drivers of shareholder and stakeholder value
  • Reviews professional values and ethical judgment in all aspects of work
  • Oversees key engagement reviews to assure stakeholder satisfaction
  • Effectively manages projects ensuring objectives and deadlines are met by team members
  • Works with the business to determine handover process to ensure appropriate transfer completed
  • Selects and uses appropriate diagnostic tools, methods and techniques and actively seeks out new and appropriate tools
  • Identifies, quantifies and manages issues impacting on project delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Leads analyses and solution development for key S&P engagements. Performs more complex activities.
  • Works closely with business units to define business problem and develops approach to resolve.
  • Oversees performance of S&P engagement data collection, research and reporting activities and staff.
  • Provides recommended S&P solutions. Works with senior managers to develop and deliver stakeholder presentations.

Preferred Qualifications

    No preferred qualifications provided.