Global Category Lead: Facilities & Maintenance Services

Caterpillar; East Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 159,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

HSA health account

FSAs

Career development

Incentive bonus

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Global Category Manager for Facilities & Process Maintenance Services to shape and execute global category strategies. You will drive supplier management, negotiations, and contract execution to deliver value across Caterpillar's facilities and factories worldwide.

This role sits in the Indirect Procurement organization and requires strong leadership, analytical insight, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to optimize cost, risk, and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience in category management, procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier management, or commercial leadership.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing category strategies.
• Strong negotiation and contracting experience.
• Experience managing complex supplier relationships and service-provider networks.
• Strong analytical, financial, and business acumen.
• Experience utilizing market intelligence and data to support sourcing decisions.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders across multiple functions and organizational levels.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and lead complex initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute global category strategies supporting facilities, factory maintenance, and related service-provider categories.
• Align category strategies with business objectives, operational requirements, and regional needs.
• Evaluate spend patterns, supplier capabilities, market intelligence, and business requirements to identify value-creation opportunities.
• Develop category roadmaps focused on cost optimization, operational performance, supplier effectiveness, and risk management.
• Identify opportunities for standardization and simplification across suppliers, service specifications, sourcing approaches, and commercial structures.
• Lead complex sourcing initiatives, supplier evaluations, supplier selections, and competitive bid processes.
• Develop sourcing strategies that balance cost, quality, performance, risk, service, and business requirements.
• Lead commercial negotiations and contracting activities with global and regional service providers.
• Partner with Legal, Operations, Facilities, and Procurement stakeholders to support contract development and execution.
• Monitor sourcing outcomes and ensure delivery of expected business value.
• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with key service providers.
• Establish supplier governance and performance management processes.
• Monitor supplier performance against contractual and operational expectations.
• Lead resolution of supplier-performance issues and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Drive supplier innovation, productivity improvements, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Balance collaborative supplier relationships with strong commercial accountability.
• Partner closely with facilities, operations, manufacturing, EHS, maintenance, and business leaders to understand evolving business needs.
• Build relationships across functions, regions, and organizational levels.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into practical category and sourcing strategies.
• Present recommendations and category plans to leadership teams and key stakeholders.
• Influence decisions through data, market intelligence, and commercial insight.
• Utilize spend data, supplier data, market intelligence, and operational metrics to support category decisions.
• Develop business cases that support sourcing, supplier, and investment recommendations.
• Assess supplier, operational, commercial, and contractual risks and develop mitigation plans.
• Drive process improvements that enhance procurement effectiveness and value delivery.
• Support adoption of new procurement technologies, tools, and capabilities.
• Ensure sourcing and contracting activities comply with procurement policies and governance requirements.

Skills

Category management

Procurement

Strategic sourcing

Supplier management

Commercial leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Caterpillar is seeking a Senior Global Category Manager for Facilities & Process Maintenance Services to shape and execute global category strategies. You will drive supplier management, negotiations, and contract execution to deliver value across Caterpillar's facilities and factories worldwide.

This role sits in the Indirect Procurement organization and requires strong leadership, analytical insight, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to optimize cost, risk, and performance.