Manager Procurement

Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Bengaluru, India, is seeking a procurement professional to manage materials and services for manufacturing. You will lead supplier bids, negotiate prices, and oversee daily purchasing activities including quotes, orders, and contract approvals.

Role requires strong communication, data analysis, and adherence to quality standards, with relocation options as needed and onsite work five days a week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's / Master's from Tier 1 University or College.
• Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques.
• Experience in supplier evaluation and price negotiation.
• Ability to interpret quantitative data and communicate results.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate rules for supplier bids and manage high-impact purchases.
• Handle purchasing activities: quotes, purchase orders, invoice/contract approval, vendor contacts.

Skills

Supplier negotiation

Quality management

Procurement process

Vendor management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's or Master's from Tier 1 university or college

Job description

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.

Role Definition

Manages function and staff responsible for procurement of materials and services needed in the manufacturing process.

Responsibilities

• Defining and communicating rules for supplier bids and managing high-impact purchases. Evaluating the qualification of suppliers and negotiating prices.
• Managing daily activities associated with requesting quotes, issuing purchase orders, invoice/contract approval, grief resolution, job instruction, vendor contacts, supplier quality/delivery, record keeping and all other purchasing related activities.
• Assessing purchasing decisions through the analysis of historical and market information; recommending improvements.
• Managing the quality of purchased goods and services based on specified requirements. Solving major supplier related problems.

Degree Requirement

Bachelor's / Master's from Tier 1 University or College

Skill Descriptors

• Quality Management: Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
• Level Extensive Experience: Interprets results of quantitative and statistical tools and explains results to others.
• Level Extensive Experience: Develops programs for motivating personnel to meet or exceed quality goals.
• Level Extensive Experience: Communicates key benefits of a quality management process.
• Level Extensive Experience: Conducts and directs quality reviews.
• Level Extensive Experience: Develops expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
• Level Extensive Experience: Develops quality assurance processes based on Six Sigma, ISO 9000 or Baldrige principles.
• Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Level Extensive Experience: Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Level Extensive Experience: Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Level Extensive Experience: Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Level Extensive Experience: Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Level Extensive Experience: Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Level Extensive Experience: Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
• 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.
• Level Extensive Experience: Successfully completes significant negotiations, both internal and external.
• Level Extensive Experience: Details the risks of negotiation breakdown from each party's perspective.
• Level Extensive Experience: Protects own position, while demonstrating willingness to achieve win-win.
• Level Extensive Experience: Identifies similarities and differences in position and assesses impact on discussions.
• Level Extensive Experience: Detects and addresses lack of progress or a stalemate.
• Audit and Compliance Function: Knowledge of major responsibilities and tasks of Audit and Compliance (A&C) function; ability to manage the operation of A&C function in various business environment.
• Level Extensive Experience: Manages one or more A&C functions or units.
• Level Extensive Experience: Facilitates compliance-related business process implementation or improvement initiatives.
• Level Extensive Experience: Implements specific organizational changes made in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
• Level Extensive Experience: Contributes to development of A&C strategies and plans.
• Level Extensive Experience: Improves key relationships and dependencies among Audit, IT and other business functions.
• Level Extensive Experience: Contributes to the establishment of best practices for A&C.
• Business Intelligence: Knowledge of business intelligence; ability to utilize business processes and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data that helps the organization make better business decisions.
• Level Extensive Experience: Organizes and maintains data to be captured in the data warehouse for BI applications.
• Level Extensive Experience: Evaluates alternative BI products in terms of their potential value to organization.
• Level Extensive Experience: Develops targeted marketing campaigns based on BI analysis.
• Level Extensive Experience: Develops processes for transforming aggregate data into useful business information.
• Level Extensive Experience: Analyzes BI gained from multiple and diverse environments.
• Level Extensive Experience: Evaluates key benefits, drawbacks and rationale for existing BI activities.
• Category Management: Knowledge of category management within an organization's goods and services sector; ability to use this knowledge to analyze and improve the end-to-end procurement process and maximize business profitability.
• Level Extensive Experience: Advises on streamlining the procurement strategy to realize the strategic benefits of category management.
• Level Extensive Experience: Designs and develops supplier agreements and procurement policies with standard terms and conditions.
• Level Extensive Experience: Identifies roadblocks in the implementation of category management and recommends innovative solutions.
• Level Extensive Experience: Prepares reports to evaluate the impact of category management on the procurement process and present ROI data to management.
• Level Extensive Experience: Supervises the execution of all stages of the category management process.
• Level Extensive Experience: Trains others on category management to ensure a streamlined procurement process.
• Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice.
• Level Extensive Experience: Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.
• Level Extensive Experience: Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.
• Level Extensive Experience: Develops quality standards and controls for suppliers.
• Level Extensive Experience: Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers.
• Level Extensive Experience: Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments.
• Level Extensive Experience: Ensures the fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements.
• Purchasing Tasks and Activities: Knowledge of policies, regulations and processes of purchasing; ability to use practices and procedures for procurement of materials, components, equipment and services.
• Level Extensive Experience: Works with the implementation of complex purchasing programs and tasks.
• Level Extensive Experience: Advises on the appropriate solutions to complex purchasing activity problems.
• Level Extensive Experience: Monitors the effectiveness of procurement policies and strategies in high cost purchases.
• Level Extensive Experience: Improves procurement processes to maximize products or services efficiency and effectiveness.
• Level Extensive Experience: Teaches others how to use advanced technologies and tools for purchasing activities.
• Level Extensive Experience: Evaluates issues and considerations for purchasing various goods and services.

Additional information

This job required 5 working days from office

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.

This position requires working onsite five days a week.Relocation is available for this position.

Posting Dates

September 3, 2026 - September 9, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply