Job title : Transportation Buyer – Guateng
Job Location : Gauteng,
Deadline : August 02, 2024
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What You Will Do:
- Establish carrier selection criteria that consider economic situation, market trends, carrier capabilities and financial health as well as Caterpillar’s strategic direction and business needs.
- Track market rates continuously and develop a deep understanding of key long-term rate drivers for multiple transportation modes, regionally and internationally.
- Negotiate contracts and run sourcing events that outline business requirements, performance standards, rates and service level expectations.
- Work with Caterpillar’s legal services to ensure that all carrier contracts provide the Caterpillar Enterprise with appropriate legal protections.
- Act as commercial escalation for unresolved service provider issues.
- Drives service provider performance, as defined by operations, to ensure providers are accountable for meeting service commitments.
- Ensure service provider cost drivers are understood and communicated as needed.
- Work with service providers to establish quarterly or semi-annual business reviews and ensure those business reviews are held with appropriate business units.
- Drive visibility of transportation rates/services and run sourcing events through new or existing technology platforms (Keelvar).
What You Have:
- Strong knowledge of the transportation market; cost drivers, trade imbalances, service coverage and capabilities of carriers.
- College or university degree, preferably in logistics.
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills. Good communication and collaboration skills.
- Good knowledge of Excel for data analytics.
- Contracts Management and Administration: Knowledge of policies, standards and processes of how to manage and administer contracts; ability to use proper processes and practices for managing and administering a variety of contractual agreements.
- Strategic Sourcing: Knowledge of strategic sourcing methods, technologies and processes; ability to analyze, improve and re-evaluate organizational procurement process continuously.
Top Candidates Also Have :
- Experience in procurement of transportation services to include the development and execution of complex sourcing events.
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