Career Area:

Supply Chain and Logistics

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: Senior Supply Chain Manager

Salary: £88,250+ per annum dependent upon experience

Location: Peterborough, UK 

Benefits:   

• 25 days annual leave + 8 Bank Holidays 

• Up to 31% Bonus 

• Monthly Car Allowance £675

• Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution Up to 10% 

• 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. 

About Caterpillar

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 Summary

Manages a team that oversees the order to delivery supply chain to ensure availability of necessary commodities to support manufacturing or distribution. Develops, implements, and manages supply chain strategies and solutions.

What You Will Do

• Lead a team responsible for the Material planning element of our global supply chain team, providing guidance, support, and direction to ensure effective coordination of material requirements across the supply chain. Foster a collaborative environment that encourages continuous improvement and professional development within the team.

• Maintaining communications with operations, procurement, logistics, and distribution.

• Creating integrated processes to streamline supply chains.

• Interacting with sales, engineering, and facilities management on production schedules and expected deliverables.

• Managing and directing the logistics specialists, including training, hiring, and coaching.

• Establishing key performance metrics and benchmarks to guide supply chain planning and forecasting; monitoring planned vs. actual performance

What You Will Have:

• Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

  • 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.

  • Uses logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions.

• Cross-Team Integration: Understanding of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.

  • Generates "win-win" strategies to gain support for key initiatives from others across boundaries.

  • Establishes ways to encourage teamwork across functions.

  • Coaches’ others on best methods for performing teamwork across organizational boundaries.

  • Recommends systems and technology to promote widespread collaboration.

• 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.

  • 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.

• Inventory Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods of inventory management; ability to effectively manage local or distributed inventories of raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods.

  • Devises standard inventory management benchmarks to improve the processes.

  • Applies systems and processes to identify and coordinate inventory requirements; resolves conflicts.

  • Reviews reports used for inventory management to find out related problems.

• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

  • Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.

  • Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

  • Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Additional Information

• This position is in Peterborough, UK

• This position requires 100% on site presence

• UK travel – up to 10%

What You Will Get 

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. You will benefit from a very competitive compensation and benefits package, career development and training opportunities, from a globally renowned company which is driven by its core values of Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork, Commitment and Sustainability. 

NB. The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined. 

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

Posting Dates:

March 9, 2026 - March 19, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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