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.
Construction Industries Supply Management (CISM) manages the global supply base for the Construction Industries segment.
This team establishes, develops, and manages a best-in-class global aftermarket and production supply network, through strategic focus and collaboration with business partners and suppliers.
We currently have an exciting and impactful career opportunity for you to join CISM as a Procurement Manager .
In this role, you will partner with the Senior Director of Global Procurement to organize and guide the day-to-day activities of the global team.
What You Will Do:
Lead prioritization of supply risks and action planning to mitigate them before they can occur.
Support the business as a subject matter expert on enterprise best practices as well as enterprise and locally developed digital tools that enable improvements in quality, cost, and velocity.
Own responsibility for staff meetings, ensuring appropriate agendas, cadence, and valuable topics.
What You Have:
Extensive Experience in Effective Communications to strategically use a variety of effective communication tools, concepts, and techniques to share critical updates and ideas to team members, customers, and leadership.
Extensive Experience in Business Intelligence where you have demonstrated your ability to enable better business decisions by identifying, gathering, storing, and organizing critical information.
Extensive Experience with Purchasing Tasks and Activities to provide subject matter level expertise to the leadership team.
Extensive Experience Negotiating where you have demonstrated the ability to successfully use a variety of negotiation concepts and techniques through complex situations.
Top candidates will also have:
A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in business, supply chain management or a related field.
Purchasing or procurement experience, ideally including extensive experience in Category Management
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.
Because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with a short-term incentive plan.
Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Additional Info :
Location: Peoria, IL
Relocation assistance is available for this position.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
ISE Assignment is not available for this position.
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.
Final details:
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Relocation is available for this position.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
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.
EEO/AA Employer.
All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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