Caterpillar, Inc

Facility Procurement Manager

Caterpillar, Inc$147K — $221K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in procurement management
  • Strong understanding of business process improvement tools
  • Extensive experience in relationship management with suppliers
  • Proficient in supplier performance monitoring and evaluation
  • Expertise in complex purchasing programs and strategies

Responsibilities

  • Lead and govern global supplier capacity planning for the Power and Energy sector
  • Manage a global team to meet procurement objectives related to cost, quality, and response time
  • Ensure supplier network meets facilities' Quality, Cost, Logistics, Development, Management (QCLDM) requirements
  • Collaborate with business partners to resolve supplier-specific issues
  • Optimize procurement processes to maximize efficiency and effectiveness

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Generous paid time off including vacation and volunteer days
  • 401(k) savings plan with company contributions
  • Flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA)
  • Career development opportunities including tuition reimbursement
  • Incentive bonuses and employee assistance programs
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
Full Job Description
Career Area:
Procurement

Job Description:

Job Summary
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.

What You Will Do:
• Managing a global team that is responsible for operating and monitoring the supply network procurement functions to meet the 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.

What You Will Have:
Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
Level 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, and resource requirements for, several teams within a process.
• Makes the business case for new processes, including their cost-benefit ratios.
• 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.
Level 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; 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.

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.
Level 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.

Additional Information:
• Travel up to 15% global

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

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:
June 4, 2026 - June 18, 2026

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar company, is one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services worldwide. Since its acquisition by Caterpillar Inc. in 2006, Progress Rail has used the Caterpillar international footprint to gain quick and widespread notice and approval across the globe. Product technology, reliability and durability, along with legendary aftermarket parts and service support, have been their keys to success. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The technology and world reach of Caterpillar, combined with the service standard and historical reliability of Progress Rail, ensures their products and services make a growing impact on the world rail industry. With their acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), Progress Rail is the world's largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications including freight, intercity passenger, commuter, switching, industrial and mining. EMD is also a global provider of diesel power engines for marine propulsion, offshore and land based oil well drilling rigs and stationary power generation. Electro-Motive is the only diesel engine manufacturer of its size to have produced more than 70,000 engines. This success stems from product reliability, serviceability, load acceptance capability, low operating costs and ease of maintenance with standardized components.

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Size
107,700 employees
Market Cap
$125.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1925
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$41.7 billion
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