Buyer Ii
- Guanajuato, Gto.
- Permanente
- Tiempo completo
**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 Duties/Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to**:
- Lead commercial discussions and negotiations with the responsible supply base to drive continuous cost improvement
- Drive performance excellence in Quality, Cost, Logistics, Development, and Management (QCLDM) of the responsible supply base
- Manage source matrices for Category
- Negotiate purchasing agreements with responsible supply base
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives and purchasing new production introduction activities
- Identify and select suppliers based on strategic sourcing principles, QCLDM, and total cost of ownership
- Build and foster relationships with suppliers
- Develop supply base to have the right capabilities and capacity to meet Enterprise growth targets, including onboarding and offboarding suppliers as needed
- Interface with product groups to ensure alignment of strategies and ensure customer requirements are being met
- Mentor Supply Network Specialists (where assigned)
**Basic Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5 years of industry experience.
- 3+ years of progressively responsible experience in purchasing, logistics, manufacturing, and/or engineering is required in addition to a degree
- Purchasing or procurement experience as a Purchasing Analyst/Supply Network Specialist, Buyer, Supplier Development Engineer (SDE), Facility Buyer, Product Supply NPI Lead or similar role.
- Experience with strategic sourcing, collaborating with external suppliers, interpreting and analyzing contracts, purchasing systems (ie: SAP, lognet)
- Familiar with quality, cost modeling and NPI tools, fact-based negotiation, LEAN/Six Sigma, or manufacturing principles, and external factors that influence a supply base
Travel:
- Up to 25%
**Additional Information**:
- Relocation assistance is NOT available for this position
What You Will Get:
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 more sustainable world.
Caterpillar Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.
For nearly 100 years, we've been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future.
Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.
EEO/AA Employer.
All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans, and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O.
**The Caterpillar Code of Conduct states that we will select and place employees based on their qualifications for the job to be performed, without regard to race, religion, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability.
In this company we do not request pregnancy tests, nor HIV tests as requirements for employment entry, permanence or promotion.
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**Final details**
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).
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