Facility Supply Manager

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
Manages function and staff responsible for procurement of materials and services needed in the manufacturing process.

Responsibilities
•    Defining and communicating rules for supplier bids and managing high-impact purchases. Evaluating the qualification of suppliers and negotiating prices.
•    Managing staffing, development, and performance management programs for procurement teams; managing, motivating, and developing project and team leaders.
•    Assessing purchasing decisions through the analysis of historical and market information; recommending improvements.
•    Managing the quality of purchased goods and services vis-a-vis requirements. Solving major supplier related problems.

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 Working Knowledge: 
•    Works to resolve obstacles related to goals of own department.
•    Documents regulatory and reporting requirements.
•    Assesses situations based on awareness of the goals and operating issues of own department.
•    Seeks guidance when assigned goals conflict with departmental goals or overall strategy.
•    Carries out responsibilities that contribute to role of own department within the organization.

Process Management: Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Employs process flows, cycle time, process time and waste concepts as appropriate.
•    Walks through steps, decisions, measurements, dependencies and hand-offs for a specific process.
•    Creates process flow or work flow diagrams.
•    Documents types of process decisions and potential impact of each decision.
•    Identifies and monitors common process bottlenecks.

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 Working Knowledge: 
•    Identifies and exploits own strengths; minimizes limitations.
•    Provides appropriate degrees of attention to both personal and professional priorities.
•    Explains how own motivation relates to the workplace.
•    Utilizes available tools or approaches for increasing knowledge of self-motivation.
•    Learns and uses resources the organization has to assess and enhance team motivation.

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.

Posting Dates:

November 21, 2024 - December 5, 2024

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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