Manager Supply Chain

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Torreon, Coahuila

Manager for Supply Chain at Caterpillar, focusing on developing, implementing, and managing supply chain streams and solutions. Responsibilities include maintaining communications across departments, creating integrated processes, managing logistics specialists, and establishing performance metrics for planning and forecasting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Developing, implements, and manages supply chain streams and solutions.
  2. Maintaining communications with operations, procurement, logistics, and distribution.
  3. Creating integrated processes to streamline supply chains.
  4. Interacting with sales, engineering, and facilities management on production schedules and expected deliverables.
  5. Managing and directing the logistics specialists, including training, hiring, and coaching.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in Supply Chain or related field in similar positions
  • leadership experience is mandatory
  • Advanced English Level

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement.
  • 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.
  • Knowledge of forecasting tools, approaches and practices; ability to determine product demand and estimate production requirements and loads.
  • 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.
  • Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in supply chain management; ability to develop and use, strategies, practices and tools for controlling the logistical processes.

What the JD emphasized

  • leadership experience is mandatory