Facility Procurement Manager

Career Area

Procurement

Facility Procurement Manager

As the Facility Procurement Manager, you will be responsible for leading and governing Power and Energy’s global supplier capacity planning, including monthly S&OP demand planning, supplier risk identification, and implementing mitigation plans in collaboration with component product and purchasing organizations.

• Managing a global team that operates and monitors the supply network procurement functions to meet defined response time, cost, quality, and lean targets, enabling optimal and efficient facility operations.
• Ensuring the supplier network is capable of meeting the specific facilities’ Quality, Cost, Logistics, Development, Management (QCLDM) requirements.
• Collaborating with business partners and suppliers, and resolving facility specific supplier issues.

• Process Management:
  • Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
  • Extensive experience: helps others learn the tools and techniques for process value analysis; carries out process evaluation, diagnosis, and optimization; demonstrates a thorough understanding of a major process flow, its components and issues; synchronizes the efforts of multiple teams; makes the business case for new processes; possesses knowledge of tools and techniques for designing and implementing new processes.
• Relationship Management:
  • Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
  • Extensive experience: communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties; participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship; conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes; maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors; creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities; empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.
• Supplier Management - MFG:
  • Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components.
  • Extensive experience: facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward; monitors supplier performance; resolves discrepancies between performance and agreements; develops quality standards and controls for suppliers; builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers; evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments; ensures fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements.
• Purchasing Tasks and
  
  Activities:
  
  
  • Knowledge of policies, regulations and processes of purchasing; ability to use practices and procedures for procurement of materials, components, equipment and services.
  • Extensive experience: works with the implementation of complex purchasing programs and tasks; advises on the appropriate solutions to complex purchasing activity problems; monitors the effectiveness of procurement policies and strategies in high cost purchases; improves procurement processes to maximize products or services efficiency and effectiveness; teaches others how to use advanced technologies and tools for purchasing activities; evaluates issues and considerations for purchasing various goods and services.

• Travel up to 15% global.
• Relocation is available for this position.
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)
• 401(k) savings plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Health Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts
• Career Development
• Incentive bonus
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.