Senior Procurement Technical Professional

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.

Job Title: Senior Procurement Technical Professional

Salary: £76,368 – £95,461 (depending on experience)

Location : Peterborough

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave,

• Up to 20% Bonus

• Cash Car Allowance

• Employee Private Healthcare

• Contributory pension scheme – Caterpillar will double the employee’s contribution Up to 10%

• Contributory share scheme – Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee’s contribution.

• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase.

Job Summary:

Caterpillar has an incredible opportunity in Peoria, IL. In this role as a Senior Procurement Technical Professional, you will report to the Director of Strategic Procurement and will be primarily responsible for applying technical expertise and experience to drive communication, collaboration, and problem solving for the procurement organization supporting global Caterpillar-owned supplier tooling management, compliance, training, and process improvements. As a member of the Supply Resiliency Team, you will need to have a growth mindset, promote continuous improvement, and help build a defect-free culture. We have a fabulous team that does some of the most exciting work at Caterpillar, and we can’t wait for you to join the team!

What You Will Do:

• Leading a variety of complex supplier tooling-related initiatives, projects, processes, and operations with innovative thinking.

• Initiating and driving collaboration among engineering personnel, business unit procurement teams, suppliers, and Caterpillar tax, technical accounting, and legal experts to maintain compliance while solving complex global business problems.

• Providing guidance and leadership on complex technical issues in the resolution of supplier quality problems, field failures, manufacturing problems, and warranty claims as they may relate to supplier tooling.

• Implementing new ideas on products, processes, technologies, techniques, and procedures to ensure that suppliers provide optimum quality tooling at a competitive cost that ensures the continuity of supply of quality parts throughout the product life.

• Driving the continued development of a state-of-the-art tooling management system supporting predictive and proactive tooling management prior to tooling end of life.

• Benchmarking Caterpillar against Industry leaders to drive World Class tools and processes.

• Provide standard work and documentation supported by on-line and in-person training.

• Own, manage, and modify as needed the supplier tooling Procurement Purchasing Practice.

What Skills You Will Have:

Quality Management:

• Interprets results of quantitative and statistical tools and explains results to others.

• Develops programs for motivating personnel to meet or exceed quality goals.

Data-driven Decision Making:

• Advises on advanced data analysis methodologies and technologies to make more informed decisions.

• Coaches others on improving the validity and reliability of data used in various Decision-Making processes.

• Designs KPIs and metrics to analyze data and influence decisions.

• Evaluates the opportunities and the challenges of integrating data into decisions.

• Oversees data gathering and analysis activities within the organization.

• Seeks input from multiple sources to generate diverse ideas for Decision Making.

Influencing:

• Develops basic persuasive arguments.

• Discusses organizational culture around providing input on decisions.

• Uses active listening skills and probing techniques to surface opportunities to influence.

• Identifies who the decision makers are and how they receive information.

• Regularly presents ideas or suggestions to associates in persuasive terms.

Problem Solving:

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.

• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.

• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.

• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

• Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Key Manufacturing Processes and Related Tooling:

• Able to understand the requirements and have basic knowledge regarding tooling/fixtures for the foundry industry (ferrous & non-ferrous), forgings, machining, injection molding, sheet metalwork, and fabrications.

What You Will Get

We look forward to welcoming the successful candidate to our dynamic, diverse and friendly team. We have a culture of openness, autonomy, support, personal development as well as a continuous drive for improvement.

NB. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.

Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting. #LI-Hybrid

Posting Dates:

January 9, 2025 – January 13, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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