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 strategic breakthrough categories to deliver year over year Quality Cost Logistics Development Management (QCLDM) performance improvement.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for the development, communication, and implementation of a worldwide sourcing strategy for a specific category.
- Identifying performance gaps within the supply base and developing improvement plans for the identified gaps.
- Collaborating with the Supply Network on risk mitigation and using predictive cost modeling both geographic and component-based.
- Identifying, developing, and managing a high-performing global supply network for one or more categories leveraging Procurement Classification Codes (PCC).
Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired
Skill Descriptors
Negotiating: Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Expert:
- Leads complex, high-impact or volatile negotiations involving high business risks.
- Advocates a win-win approach to negotiating.
- Explains appropriateness of using adversarial negotiating versus joint problem-solving techniques.
- Overcomes resistance to the negotiation process.
- Teaches others the subtleties of negotiating strategic or high-impact agreements.
- Negotiates complex matters involving multiple parties.
Audit and Compliance
Audit and Compliance Function: Knowledge of major responsibilities and tasks of Audit and Compliance (A&C) function; ability to manage the operation of A&C function in various business environment.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Manages one or more A&C functions or units.
- Facilitates compliance-related business process implementation or improvement initiatives.
- Implements specific organizational changes made in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
- Contributes to development of A&C strategies and plans.
- Improves key relationships and dependencies among Audit, IT and other business functions.
- Contributes to the establishment of best practices for A&C.
Business Intelligence: Knowledge of business intelligence; ability to utilize business processes and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data that helps the organization make better business decisions.
Level Expert:
- Champions the adoption and application of BI to new situations and environments.
- Establishes the standards, policies and strategies for the organization based on BI indicators.
- Leads discussions based on results of poor intelligence; cites cases about ineffective use of BI.
- Creates processes to verify the accuracy and relevance of BI tool-generated information.
- Presents BI-generated information at executive, board and shareholder meetings.
- Defines key BI performance indicators that assess the present state of business.
Category Management: Knowledge of category management within an organization's goods and services sector; ability to use this knowledge to analyze and improve the end-to-end procurement process and maximize business profitability.
Level Expert:
- Analyzes recent trends and developments related to category management and procurement and discusses future implications.
- Establishes best practices in category management and develops related training programs.
- Formulates a procurement strategy that utilizes the benefits of category management to streamline the procurement process and maximize business profitability.
- Identifies and defines KPIs to track and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the procurement process.
- Oversees the category management processes for all categories and provides technical guidance during implementation.
- Promotes the use of emerging tools and technologies for implementing the category management 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 Expert:
- Establishes best practices for monitoring supplier efficacy, reliability, and performance.
- Leads the evaluation of product plans/directions for impact on supply chain requirements.
- Mentors others in the resolution of complex supplier issues; consults on the trends of supplier management.
- Leads in the development of evaluating, selecting and certifying processes for suppliers.
- Oversees large supplier networks at the enterprise or global level.
- Develops supplier strategies; monitors the marketplace for competitive suppliers.
Strategic Sourcing: Knowledge of strategic sourcing methods, technologies and processes; ability to analyze, improve and re-evaluate organizational procurement process continuously.
Level Expert:
- Deploys and directs strategic sourcing in multiple and diverse environments and applications.
- Plays a leadership role in establishing strategic sourcing standards, policies, strategy and best practices.
- Leads discussions on industry and marketplace trends and directions regarding strategic sourcing, citing relevant case studies.
- Mentors others on all major strategic sourcing functions, issues and considerations.
- Develops a theoretical background and understanding of strategic sourcing and provides a historical and future perspective.
- Influences organization-wide or high-impact decisions and initiatives directly regarding strategic sourcing.
This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
July 27, 2026 - August 7, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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