Regional Procurement 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.

Your Work Shapes the World

Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure.  Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs.  Join us.

Job Summary:

Manages strategic breakthrough categories to deliver year over year Quality Cost Logistics Development Management (QCLDM) performance improvement.

What You Will Do:

• Accountable for the development, communication, and implementation of a worldwide sourcing strategy for Caterpillar’s US Unformed Steel category.

• Establish and execute strategic category priorities based on benefits and opportunities to ensure conformance and compliance with all major certifying agencies both internal and external to the enterprise.
• Proactively identify performance gaps within the supply base and developing improvement plans for the identified gaps.

• Collaborate with the Supply Network on risk mitigation and using predictive cost modeling both geographic and component based.

• Identify, develop, and manage a high-performing global supply network leveraging Procurement.

• Own supplier relationship and performance management for Caterpillar’s US Unformed Steel category.

• Collect and analyze market intelligence and deliver clear and timely communications, forecasts, and activities to appropriate business partners throughout the enterprise.

• Management of unique procurement / sales process that apply to unformed steel portfolio.

Education Requirement:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Business

What Skills You Will Have:

Planning: Tactical, Strategic:
• Contributes to short-term operational plans.
• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Effective Communications:
• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Negotiating:
• Ability to conduct due diligence of contract review with legal representation.
• Successfully completes significant negotiations, both internal and external.
• Details the risks of negotiation breakdown from each party's perspective.
• Protects own position, while demonstrating willingness to achieve win-win.
• Identifies similarities and differences in position and assesses impact on discussions.
• Detects and addresses lack of progress or a stalemate.

Business Intelligence:
• Organizes and maintains data to be captured in the data warehouse for BI applications.
• Evaluates alternative BI products in terms of their potential value to organization.
• Develops processes for transforming aggregate data into useful business information.
• Analyzes BI gained from multiple and diverse environments.
• Evaluates key benefits, drawbacks and rationale for existing BI activities.

Category Management:
• Advises on streamlining the procurement strategy to realize the strategic benefits of category management.
• Designs and develops supplier agreements and procurement policies with standard terms and conditions.
• Identifies roadblocks in the implementation of category management and recommends innovative solutions.
• Prepares reports to evaluate the impact of category management on the procurement process and present ROI data to management.
• Supervises the execution of all stages of the category management process.
• Trains others on category management to ensure a streamlined procurement process.

Supplier Management - MFG:
• 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.

Strategic Sourcing:
• Participates in monitoring the execution for all stages of the strategic sourcing process.
• Trains others on strategic sourcing in multiple and diverse environments.
• Designs and develops standard supplier agreements and procurement policies with standardized terms and conditions.
• Works with complex strategic sourcing components including but not limited to negotiations, contracting, and continuous process improvement and implementation.
• Consults on strategic sourcing methods in relation to business relationships, inter-dependencies and integration.
• Develops and explains strategic sourcing best practices and rationale for the organization and industry.

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Relevant and substantial steel industry experience in procurement or sales functions.

• Extensive experience in developing and communicating annual business planning.

• Understanding of global commodity markets and market forces.

• Understanding of steel grade specifications and requirements to support form, fit and function.

• Substantial understanding of downstream utilization of steel components, relevant manufacturing processes, and engineering/metallurgical principles.

• Ability to develop and mentor a high performing team within a dynamic business structure.

Additional Information

The location for this position is Mossville, IL

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.

This position may require up to 25% travel.

What You Will Get:

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides:

• Competitive Base Salary
• Annual incentive bonus plan*
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
• 401k savings plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Life Insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

Final details

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This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers .

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Summary Pay Range:

$144,960.00 - $217,320.00

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

Posting Dates:

March 10, 2025 - March 19, 2025

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

EEO/AA Employer.  All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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