Career Area:Procurement
Job Description:Role DefinitionWe are seeking a
Category Procurement Manager. This person will manage strategic breakthrough categories to deliver year-over-year Quality Cost Logistics Development Management (QCLDM) performance improvement.
What You Will Do:- Accountable for the development, communication, and implementation of a worldwide sourcing strategy for a specific category.
- Identifying performance gaps within the supply base and developing improvement plans for the identified gaps.
- Collaborating with the Supply Network on risk mitigation and using predictive cost modeling both geographic and component-based.
- Identifying, developing, and managing a high-performing global supply network for one or more categories leveraging Procurement Classification Codes (PCC).
Degree RequirementDegree or equivalent experience desired
Preferred but Not RequiredPrior Procurement experience in Castings, Fabrications, and/or Non-Metallics categories
Prior Procurement experience in Drivetrain components
What You Will Do:Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
- Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
- Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
- Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
- Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
- Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
Negotiating: Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Ensures negotiators have awareness of complementary yet diverse interests.
- Successfully completes significant negotiations, both internal and external.
- Details the risks of negotiation breakdown from each party's perspective.
- Protects own position, while demonstrating willingness to achieve win-win.
- Identifies similarities and differences in position and assesses impact on discussions.
- Detects and addresses lack of progress or a stalemate.
Category Management: Knowledge of category management within an organization's goods and services sector; ability to use this knowledge to analyze and improve the end-to-end procurement process and maximize business profitability.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Advises on streamlining the procurement strategy to realize the strategic benefits of category management.
- Designs and develops supplier agreements and procurement policies with standard terms and conditions.
- Identifies roadblocks in the implementation of category management and recommends innovative solutions.
- Prepares reports to evaluate the impact of category management on the procurement process and present ROI data to management.
- Supervises the execution of all stages of the category management process.
- Trains others on category management to ensure a streamlined procurement process.
Supplier Management - MFG: 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:
- Facilitates 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.
Strategic Sourcing: Knowledge of strategic sourcing methods, technologies and processes; ability to analyze, improve and re-evaluate organizational procurement process continuously.
- Level Extensive Experience:
- Participates in monitoring the execution for all stages of the strategic sourcing process.
- Trains others on strategic sourcing in multiple and diverse environments.
- Designs and develops standard supplier agreements and procurement policies with standardized terms and conditions.
- Works with complex strategic sourcing components including but not limited to negotiations, contracting, and continuous process improvement and implementation.
- Consults on strategic sourcing methods in relation to business relationships, inter-dependencies and integration.
- Develops and explains strategic sourcing best practices and rationale for the organization and industry.
Additional Information:
- Relocation is not available
- Sponsorship is not available
- Domestic travel is less than 25%
Summary Pay Range:$147,760.00 - $221,640.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits: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
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
Posting Dates:August 14, 2026 - August 28, 2026
