Solutions Manager

Overview

Career Area: Procurement

Compensation Grade: 26

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.

Job Title: Solutions Manager

Salary/Grade: £67,569 – £80,000 per annum (depending on experience)

Location: Larne

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Up to 31% bonus

• Car allowance - £540pcm

• Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 6%

• Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution.

• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase.

This position requires a 4.5-day-a-week schedule in the office.

About EPD

Caterpillar''s Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centres, municipalities, and more.

With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers.

We are looking for top talent to build and scale the next generation of technologies, products and services to help our customers build a better—more sustainable—world. We need self-motivated, intelligent and team-oriented individuals to make our plans a reality. Individuals with high emotional intelligence, humility and openness to discovery will thrive in the teams we are building. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

The opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior manager who will be responsible for sourcing and securing capacity to support our Power Solutions business. The Caterpillar power solutions business offers our customers end-to-end power generation solutions for their relevant application. This role delivers business solutions that are globally effective and applicable to support the execution of the Large Electric Power (LEPs) division.

This role is critical to the success of Caterpillar''s Large Electric Power Solutions (LEPs) Business. This role sources suppliers who will manufacture CAT Solutions (Standby and Prime Genset Enclosure units) for our division, serving our customers in the EAME region. This role requires a strong technical background along with a customer-focused commercial mindset. The person must bring significant leadership skills along with influencing skills.

What you will do:

• Source, develop and onboard suppliers across the EAME region who can successfully manufacture CAT Solutions, diesel and Gas Genset enclosures along with electrical controls and switch gear.

• Negotiate pricing, terms, and contracts with those sourced suppliers

• Lead a team responsible for ensuring the suppliers meet the key People, Quality, Velocity and Cost metrics for our business.

• Lead a group of individual contributors that deliver projects associated with lean processes, global market understanding, tools, and systems.

• Manage the overall design and development of solutions, collaborates with senior stakeholders and business users to collect VOB/VOC, business requirements, and prepares implementation plans for successful deployment.

• Execute key strategic initiatives such as the development of standardized best practices, offerings, services and development of associated tools & training.

• Drive adoption and identifying continuous improvement opportunities/projects,…