Job Description

Career Area:

Supply Chain and Logistics

Job Description:

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Role Definition

We are seeking a dynamic Supply Chain Manager to lead a team overseeing the end-to-end order-to-delivery process for Investment Castings—Blades, Vanes, and Nozzles to ensure availability of necessary commodities to support manufacturing or distribution. Develops, implements, and manages supply chain strategies and solutions.

This role is responsible for developing and executing supply chain strategies that ensure material availability, drive supplier performance, and support manufacturing operations.

The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in strategic sourcing, supplier development, and contract management, with a strong focus on continuous improvement and cost reduction.

This position also plays a key role in mentoring talent and aligning supply chain capabilities with business growth objectives.

This position is on-site five days a week

Responsibilities
• Ensure the supplier value stream performance is consistent and synchronized with Solar’s demand.
• Serve as the industry expert for a particular value stream category and develop and execute supplier sourcing strategies that support business growth and cost reduction targets while delivering year over year supplier performance improvement.
• Act as an internal consultant on the availability of future commodities and the corresponding impact on design programs.
• Identify performance gaps within the supply base and develop improvement plans for the identified gaps.
• Provide leadership through the development, mentoring and training of their team to build the best Global Supply Chain team and drive business results.

Skill Descriptors
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level: Extensive Experience
• Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
• Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
• Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
• Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

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: Extensive Experience
• Ensures negotiators have awareness of complementary yet diverse interests.
• 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.

Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.
Level: Working Knowledge
• Implements the group's go-to-market strategy.
• Raises awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships.
• Explains elements of the strategy to others and encourages questions.
• Monitors marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities; reports findings.
• Makes sound recommendations when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.

Leadership: Knowledge of leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing, and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.
Level: Extensive Experience
• Translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives.
• Uses a normative decision model (with leadership styles and situational variables) to select style.
• Promotes efficacy through monitoring, coaching & motivating subordinates, intervention, etc.
• Uses emotional contagion to affect the mood of group members, tone of group and group processes.
• Initiates structure: role clarification, setting standards, holding subordinates accountable, etc.
• Employs various group decision-making methods depending on the situation.

Contingency and Disaster Recovery Management: Knowledge of manufacturing contingency and disaster recovery approaches, practices, tools and techniques; ability to develop and administrate contingency and disaster recovery plans.
Level: Extensive Experience
• Performs analysis on environmental and equipment configurations; develops disaster prevention plans and improves backup and recovery capabilities.
• Participates in the development and distribution of procedures and practices regarding disaster recovery.
• Delivers partial and full tests of the contingency and disaster recovery plan.
• Coordinates the development, documentation and maintenance of contingency and disaster recovery plans for critical organizational functions.
• Works with other functions and customers to coordinate contingency and disaster recovery planning.
• Creates and tests a back-up environment; defines minimum operating requirements.

Contracts Management and Administration: Knowledge of policies, standards and processes of how to manage and administer contracts; ability to use proper processes and practices for managing and administering a variety of contractual agreements.
Level: Extensive Experience
• Supervises management and administration for a wide variety of contracts.
• Advises on the practices and considerations for upgrading existing contracts and solving complex contract management problems.
• Trains others on how to use advanced technologies and tools for contracts management.
• Develops standard processes to maximize contracts efficiency and effectiveness.
• Evaluates operational issues and considerations in contract enforcement.
• Anticipates contract issues and manages risk regarding legal issues.

Strategic Sourcing: Knowledge of strategic sourcing methods, technologies and processes; ability to analyze, improve and re-evaluate organizational procurement process continuously.
Level: Extensive Experience
• 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.

Supply Chain Management: Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in supply chain management; ability to develop and implement strategies, practices and tools for controlling the whole processes.
Level: Extensive Experience
• Quantifies and evaluates benefits and risks of various supply chain strategies and approaches.
• Participates in joint planning, process design/redesign with clients and partners.
• Monitors the complete supply chain management process.
• Manages supply chain finance activities and measurements of effectiveness.
• Consults on supply chain network design projects or processes.
• Advises others on capacity issues at various points in the supply chain.

Desired Qualifications
Bachelor Degree required, Masters preferred, Supply Chain Management / Procurement focus and additional certifications a plus.
Extensive (10+ years) experience in supply chain management, sourcing, and leadership
Strong decision-making, negotiation, and strategic thinking skills

Preferred Qualifications

Aerospace industry experience

Experience in Investment Casting

Summary Pay Range:

$155,986.00 - $233,980.00

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

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.

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.

Posting Dates:

July 3, 2025 - July 17, 2025

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

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

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