Senior Manager, Procurement Solutions
Caterpillar Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Cary • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $156,000 - $234,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Lead Global APQP Strategy: Develop, implement and execute, processes and initiatives to improve quality and operational efficiency within the Global supply base.
- Process Optimization: Benchmark best practices and leverage global procurement expertise to design and deploy scalable, executable processes and tools.
- Team Leadership: Manage and mentor a dynamic multi-site team of professionals, boosting growth and high performance, while fostering a culture of excellence and ethical leadership across a diverse global organization.
- Supplier Performance Management: Utilize data driven insights to measure procurement performance, identify improvement opportunities and implement solutions for continuous improvement.
- Cross Functional Collaboration: Partner with global teams, including finance and operations, to align procurement strategies with business objectives.
- Capacity & Supply Chain Oversight: Lead global capacity planning and supply chain performance initiatives, ensuring a robust supplier strategy and resiliency with enough capacity from our suppliers and timely execution of strategic projects.
- Executive Communication: Provide regular updates to senior leadership on Quality and Procurement initiatives, performance metrics and strategic opportunities.
- Risk Management: Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to quality and capacity to maintain supply chain resilience.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and/or equivalent experience in a relevant sector.
- Demonstrated expertise in strategic procurement by developing and executing procurement strategies aligned with enterprise goals.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without having direct authority to optimize supply chain performance.
- Effective global leadership capabilities with a track record of successfully collaborating across different cultures.
- Experience of successfully deploying process improvement tools like 6 Sigma to improve efficiency, quality and productivity.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
strategic procurementprocess optimizationsupplier performance managementcapacity planningsupply chain performancedata analysisprocess improvement6 Sigma
Soft skills
team leadershipcross functional collaborationexecutive communicationinfluence without authoritycultural collaborationmentoringethical leadership