Facility Procurement Professional

Career Area

Procurement

Job Description

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Job Title: Facility Procurement Professional

Salary: 47,615 GBP – 59,518 GBP

Contract: Permanent

Location: Peterlee, County Durham

Hours: Full-Time – 36.50 - 4.5 days in office

Relocation: Not associated with this role

Travel: Up to 5%

Job Reference: R0000298852

Job Purpose

As a Facility Procurement Professional, you will support supply related activities for a facility to deliver excellence and integration between procurement and the team supporting facility.

Responsibilities

• 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 and then work with the correct internal teams to deliver.
• 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.

Top Candidates Will Have

• SAP/MACH1 experience

What Skills You Will Have

Data-driven Decision Making:

• Applies an assigned technique for data-driven thinking in a Decision-Making process.
• Discerns between "signal" and "noise" when interpreting data.
• Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
• Participates in the process of choosing KPIs and metrics to influence decisions.
• Utilizes the basic data collection and evaluation tools and techniques.

Analytical Thinking

• Approaches a situation or problem by defining the problem or issue and determining its significance.
• Makes a systematic comparison of two or more alternative solutions.
• Identifies the major forces, events and people impacting and impacted by the situation at hand.

Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP)

• Participates in developing materials requirements and costs for custom requests.
• Uses job schedule, plant and machine schedule and inventory systems to initiate and oversee jobs.
• Uses available tools to analyze order and develop quotes and realistic delivery dates.

Supplier Management - MFG

• Follows procedures in carrying out routine supplier management tasks.
• Uses electronic systems or tools to record/retrieve supplier information and carry out transactions with suppliers.
• Resolves routine supplier issues; escalates non-routine issues up chain of command.
• Works with suppliers to ensure that purchases meet delivery date and quality specifications.

Supply Chain Management

• Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.
• Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.
• Works with a specific part of supply chain management process.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays including additional service days awarded every 2 years up to a maximum of 5 days.
• Up to 10% Bonus target
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (Contribution double by Company up to 10%)
• Share Ownership Scheme (50% company matched)
• Personalised flexible benefits
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free onsite parking

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

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Posting Dates

April 7, 2025 - April 20, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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