Senior Manager Procurement Solutions

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Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other.  We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Are you ready to lead a global strategy that shapes the future of construction equipment? Caterpillar’s Building Construction Products (BCP) division is hiring a Senior Manager Procurement Solutions who will lead a global Center of Excellence focused on New Product Introduction (NPI), New Source Introduction (NSI), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Capacity Strategy for the BCP supply base.  This is a critical role that will drive strategic initiatives that will enhance quality, efficiency, and supply chain performance across our global operations.

This is more than a procurement role — it’s a chance to lead a high-performing global team, influence enterprise Supplier Quality Strategy, lead the BCP APQP Center of Excellence, improve supply base capabilities, and deliver measurable results across our business.

What You’ll Do (Job Duties)

As a key member of the Global Strategic Procurement team’s Center of Excellence, reporting directly to the Director, you will:

• 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.

What You Have (Core Skills)

• Business Process Improvement: Extensive knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches.

• Data Analytics: Good working knowledge of techniques and processes for inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data; ability to discover useful information, draw logical conclusions and support decision-making.

• Effective Communications: Extensive knowledge and 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.

• Matrix Management: Extensive knowledge and understanding of the importance of being able to leverage external resources when required and ability to build and use effective working relationships within own department and across department, functional and geographic reporting lines.

• Cost-Benefit Analysis: Extensive knowledge and understanding of the principles and tools used in cost-benefit analysis; ability to analyze the purpose and scope of a producer, product, process, or project in terms of cost and benefits.

• Procurement Function: Extensive knowledge of responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of the procurement function.

Top Candidates Will Also Have

• Demonstrated expertise in strategic procurement by developing and executing procurement strategies aligned with enterprise goals.

• Demonstrated ability