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.

Role Definition
Supervises and manages prime product distribution processes & control tower activities to continuously improve the transportation distribution network performance. 

Responsibilities
•    Analyzing existing shipping processes, identifying existing gaps or pain points, and contributing to the improvement of existing processes or the development of new ones.
•    Managing the assignment and scheduling of shipment-related activities based on priorities and storage requirements.
•    Reporting any non-compliance and sharing them with their seniors.
•    Measuring and improving performance of transportation suppliers and team
•    Supervising the distribution of prime products by collaborating with factory, origin & destination teams, Product Groups, GCI, suppliers and dealers to ensure smooth flow and prompt delivery of shipments and goods.
•    Lead transformation projects on New Technology Enabled Solutions and Capability deployment, manage change working with trade lane management team members and deliver business results
•    Lead Continuous improvement projects, Lean projects to optimize end to end transportation network to achieve cost and competitive performance
•    Set up, supervise and manage control towers to support prime product distribution shipment pre-planning, ocean booking and load tendering

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired

Skill Descriptors
Global Perspective: Knowledge of issues, opportunities, and challenges for conducting business in the international marketplace; ability to apply global perspectives appropriately in a wide range of situations.
 

Level Basic Understanding: 
•    Explains basic policies and procedures governing global business conduct.
•    Identifies regions and countries relevant to organization's business.
•    Researches, with guidance, information on country- or region-specific activities.
•    Describes several issues or considerations for conducting business in another country.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
 

Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.
•    Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.
•    Productively balances speed and accuracy.
•    Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.
•    Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
•    Employs techniques for motivating employees to meet or exceed accuracy goals.

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.

Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.
•    Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.
•    Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.
•    Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.
•    Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.
•    Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

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.

Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
•    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.
•    Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
•    Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

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.
 

Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.
•    Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.
•    Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.
•    Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.
•    Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.
•    Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties.
•    Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.
•    Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.
•    Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors.
•    Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.
•    Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.

Import/Export - MFG: Knowledge of issues, procedures, tools and practices of importing and exporting; ability to import and export goods to and from international locations.
 

Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Applies import and customs regulations for a specific region or country.
•    Receives frequent import shipments and manages the customs clearance process.
•    Assists in the export process; ensures compliance with U.S. regulations for a specific country.
•    Uses locally relevant tariff schedules.
•    Completes all required import or export documentation for repetitive transactions.

Transportation - MFG: Knowledge of transportation; ability to transport materials and goods to and from suppliers, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities and customers.
 

Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Conducts joint planning with carriers to forecast short- and long-term transportation needs.
•    Coaches others on using various approaches for assessing transportation alternatives and selecting optimum mode.
•    Manages arrangements with all major modes of domestic transportation.
•    Negotiates and monitors rates and service controls with major carriers.
•    Participates in evaluation, selection, monitoring and termination of carriers.
•    Collaborates with shippers to plan for and mitigate the transportation capacity crunch.

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.

Posting Dates:

August 22, 2024 - September 4, 2024

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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