Facility Procurement Manager

About the Role

We are seeking a Facility Procurement Manager to lead procurement functions for Caterpillar Defense. This role will support U.S. and UK based Cat Defense products and teams and interacts closely with members of the broader Procurement organization within Power & Energy Procurement. Our work is geared towards Predictable Supply Excellence, Optimized Total Cost of Ownership, Supplier Relationship Management, and Lifecycle Sourcing Strategy. With a strong focus on data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency, Power & Energy Procurement leverages 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of delivering a lean, responsive, and resilient material and services flow for the facility from source to dock and additional required points.
• 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 is capable of meeting the business unit’s specific Quality, Cost, Logistics, Development, Management (QCLDM) requirements.
• Collaborate with business partners and suppliers and resolve facility-specific supplier issues.

Requirements

• Initiative: Proactive and committed to action on self-identified job responsibilities and challenges; ability to seek out work and drive to accomplish goals.
  • Extensive experience demonstrating persistence in the face of difficulties.
  • Takes calculated risks due to orientation to action.
  • Promotes learning by sharing diverse scenarios where a sense of urgency was critically important.
  • Maintains a sense of commitment to success, personal achievement, and satisfaction.
  • Proceeds without seeking unnecessary permission.
  • Coaches others on leveraging their strengths in one environment and applying them to another.
• Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
  • Extensive experience communicating 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.
• Problem Management Process - MFG: Knowledge of manufacturing problem management processes, methodologies, and techniques; ability to use a disciplined approach to bring problems to successful resolution.
  • Extensive experience evaluating alternative approaches to resolving customer problems.
  • Receives, clarifies, and resolves a variety of standard and atypical problems.
  • Implements processes and activities for handling unusual problems.
  • Advises others on the process and associated costs for different types of problems.
  • Monitors and improves problem reporting, tracking, escalation, and resolution.
  • Participates in trend and root cause analysis to identify and address recurring problems.
• Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers.
  • Extensive experience facilitating supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.
  • Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve 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 the 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.
  • Extensive experience working with the implementation of complex purchasing programs and tasks.
  • Advises on appropriate solutions to complex purchasing activity problems.
  • Monitors the effectiveness of procurement policies and strategies in high-cost purchases.
  • Improves procurement processes to maximize 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.

Must be a U.S. citizen. This job is subject to Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPI), which prohibits the release of technology and technical data to non-U.S. citizens. By applying, you acknowledge you are a U.S. citizen, do not hold dual citizenship with another country, and are willing to present evidence of U.S. citizenship.

Relocation and visa sponsorship are not available for this position. This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Pay

Summary pay range: $147,760.00 - $221,640.00. Compensation and benefits may vary depending on job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance, and experience.

Benefits

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. Benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Paid time off (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

These benefits also apply to part-time employees.