Career Area:
Purchasing & Procurement
Job Description:
Caterpillar's Brooklyn Park facility is hiring a Facility Procurement Professional . This role is part of a larger team that sits between the facility's category and planning operations teams. If you are seeking a role where you can expand your procurement skills in a supportive team environment, apply today!
Role Definition : Supports supply related activities for a facility to deliver excellence and integration between procurement and the team supporting facility.
What You Will Do
Supporting delivery of a lean, responsive, and resilient material and services flow for the facility from source to dock and additional required points.
Recognizing the potential for cost and inventory reductions, and quality improvement, as well as responsibility for soundness of business proposals and risk assessment.
Operating and monitoring the supply network procurement functions to meet the defined response time, cost, quality, and lean targets enabling optimal and efficient facility operations.
Collaborating with business partners and suppliers and resolving facility specific supplier issues.
Analyze and understand complex data and communicate findings to key stakeholders and leadership.
What You Have
Prior procurement / purchasing / supply chain management experience
Strong problem-solving skills
Experience working with suppliers
Top Candidates Will Also Have
Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP) experience
Knowledge of business process improvement tools and techniques; ability to understand, monitor, update, control, or enhance existing business or work processes
Eager to learn, adaptable and flexible
Additional Details
Location: Brooklyn Park, Minneapolis
Relocation assistance is available
Onsite work is required but this role can operate with a hybrid work schedule
How We Support You (Employee Benefits)
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. We offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of a yearly bonus. Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Your Work Shapes the World
At Caterpillar, we believe each person is unique and valued, and are committed to ensuring that our workplace is diverse and representative of the many customers we serve around the globe. Different perspectives help us achieve our best work and come together to form a high-performing Caterpillar team that makes positive changes in the communities where we live and work.
Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do 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.
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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Relocation is available for this position.
EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
There's more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.
Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee's contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we've built.
