Facility Procurement Manager

Facility Procurement Manager

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you are part of a global team that cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are makers, problem solvers, and future world builders creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We make progress and innovation happen with our customers where we work and live.

Together, we build a better world and enable everyone to enjoy living in it.

Procurement

Caterpillar’s Power & Energy Procurement organization plays a key role in supporting all divisions within Power & Energy. Our focus is on Predictable Supply Excellence, Optimized Total Cost of Ownership, Supplier Relationship Management, and Lifecycle Sourcing Strategy. We develop suppliers that deliver operational excellence and enable customers to build a better world. With a strong data‑driven decision‑making focus and operational efficiency, P&E Procurement uses advanced tools and processes to connect the physical and digital supply chain, enabling business units to deliver high‑performance solutions that meet evolving customer and business needs.

As the Facility Procurement Manager, you will lead and govern Power and Energy’s global supplier capacity planning, including monthly S&OP demand planning, supplier risk identification, and implementation of mitigation plans in collaboration with component product and purchasing organizations.

• Manage a global team responsible for operating and monitoring the supply network procurement functions to meet defined response time, cost, quality, and lean targets, enabling optimal and efficient facility operations.
• Ensure the supplier network meets the specific facilities’ Quality, Cost, Logistics, Development, Management (QCLDM) requirements.
• Collaborate with business partners and suppliers, resolving facility‑specific supplier issues.

Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.

Level: Extensive Experience

• Help others learn the tools and techniques for process value analysis.
• Carry out process evaluation, diagnosis, and optimization.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of a major process flow, its components, and issues.
• Synchronize efforts and resource requirements for several teams within a process.
• Makes the business case for new processes, including cost‑benefit ratios.
• Possesses knowledge of tools and techniques for designing and implementing new processes.

Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

Level: Extensive Experience

• Communicates with clients regarding expectations of all parties.
• Participates in negotiating 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.

Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience, and skills into real practice.

Level: Extensive Experience

• Facilitate supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.
• Monitor supplier performance; resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.
• Develop quality standards and controls for suppliers.
• Build and maintain partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers.
• Evaluate issues and terminate supplier relationships as appropriate; work with legal departments.
• Ensure the fulfillment of report and record‑keeping requirements.

Knowledge of policies, regulations, and processes of purchasing; ability to use practices and procedures for procurement of materials, components, equipment, and services.

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