**Career Area:** Procurement **Job Description:** **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. **Role Definition** Leads supply related activities for a facility to deliver excellence and integration between procurement and the team supporting facility. **Responsibilities** • Leading the execution of delivering a lean, responsive, and resilient material and services flow for the facility from source to dock and additional required points. • Managing 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. Degree Requirement Degree or equivalent experience desired **Skill Descriptors** Operational Functions: Knowledge of major functional processes and associated operating requirements; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations. Level Extensive Experience: • Facilitates interrelationships between major functions and sub-functions. • Designs awareness programs for multi- and cross-functional issues of the regulatory environment. • Works to resolve obstacles to goals of several organizational functions. • Advises others to carry out responsibilities based on understanding of key organizational functions. • Evaluates relevant industry practices from an operations perspective and works accordingly. • Recommends efficiencies in operational functions wherever possible. 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. Initiative: Being proactive and committing to action on self-identified job responsibilities and challenges; ability to seek out work and the drive to accomplish goals. Level Extensive Experience: • Cites personal examples of persistence in the face of difficulties. • Takes calculated risks because of orientation to action. • Promotes learning by sharing diverse scenarios in which a sense of urgency was critically important. • Maintains 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. 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. Problem Management Process - MFG: Knowledge of manufacturing problem management processes, methodologies and techniques; ability to use a disciplined approach to bringing that problem to a successful resolution. Level Extensive Experience: • Evaluates alternative approaches to resolving a customer problem. • Receives, clarifies, and resolves a variety of standard and atypical problems. • Implements the 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. Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Knowledge of the concepts, principles and techniques of root cause analysis (RCA); ability to use a structured approach to identify the causes of undesirable consequences in a manufacturing environment and the changes needed to prevent recurrences. Level Working Knowledge: • Utilizes RCA techniques, such as Flowchart, Fish-bone Diagram, etc., to investigate basic problems, determine the causes, and find resolutions. • Locates factors that resulted in harmful outcomes of one or more past events. • Pinpoints behaviors, actions, inaction, or conditions that need to be changed. • Extrapolates lessons to be learned to promote the achievement of better consequences. • Practices RCA as an iterative 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. 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. **This position requires the candidate to work a 5-day-a-week schedule in the office.** **About Caterpillar** Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. **Posting Dates:** 一月 26, 2026 - 二月 8, 2026 Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .