SCM Planning Manager

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Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, youre 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 dont 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
Manages the development, implementation and operation of a supply stream for a specific product group.

Responsibilities
Developing, implementing, and managing complex supply chain streams with global reach.
Managing relationships and processes with suppliers to ensure adequate product supply to meet inventory strategies. Providing support for new supplier selection.
Establishing effective linkages, partnerships, and best practices with clients, business partners and internal functions.
Performing analysis of supply chain trends, sales, forecast, on time delivery, and inventory strategies and recommending improvements to the supply chain performance.

Degree Requirement
Degree or equivalent experience desired.

Minimum of 12+years of relevant experience is required.

Skill Descriptors
Business Markets: Knowledge of existing and planned markets and market-related initiatives from the perspectives of the competition, the suppliers, the customer base and the regulatory environment; ability to apply market knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Working Knowledge:
Recognizes key players and major competitors in a market.
Summarizes strategies related to key operating issues and key players within the market.
Researches characteristics of an assigned market and its segments.
Monitors regulatory and reporting environment within an assigned market.
Collects information relevant to business strategies and initiatives.

Effectiveness Measurement: Knowledge of effective measurement techniques and ability to measure the quality and quantity of work effort for the purpose of improvement.
Level Working Knowledge:
Under guidance, reports measurement results in actionable form to management.
Interprets and analyzes results vs. established benchmarks.
Establishes short-range and long-range improvement goals for own function.
Uses assigned measurements for own function or specialization.
Under guidance, develops action plans to achieve those goals.

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 Extensive Experience:
Coaches others on legal, regulatory, and financial issues across multiple countries.
Participates in developing current and planned infrastructure for conducting global business.
Advises on the application of global policies to regional and local operations.
Compares and contrasts opportunities and challenges for countries within a region.
Oversees current projects using experience with conducting business in several countries.
Coordinates country-specific legal and financial compliance reviews.

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Level Extensive Experience:
Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.

Project Administration: Knowledge of project administration best practices and ability to use organizational strategies, practices and tools for administering projects.
Level Basic Understanding:
Explains concepts of phase, activity and task.
Provides examples of project data that is tracked.
Identifies deliverables, resources and dependencies in project plans.
Demonstrates a basic understanding of organizational project management practices and tools.

Supply Chain Management - PHA: Knowledge of strategies and tools for controlling and optimizing the factors that lie between the purchase of raw materials, components and supplies, and delivery of finished products.
Level Extensive Experience:
Demonstrates experience with managing the complete supply chain management process.
Quantifies and discusses benefits and risks of various supply chain strategies and approaches.
Discusses capacity issues at various points in the supply chain.
Oversees supply chain finance activities and measurements of effectiveness.
Participates in supply chain network design or redesign projects or processes.
Creates and monitors mechanisms for process and system integration with clients and partners.

Contingency and Disaster Recovery Management: Knowledge of manufacturing contingency and disaster recovery approaches, practices, tools and techniques; ability to develop and administrate contingency and disaster recovery plans.
Level Working Knowledge:
Adheres to related processes and procedures in a contingency plan.
Executes established procedures necessary to continue operations in an emergency.
Schedules, supports, and documents disaster recovery trials and tests.
Documents contingency and disaster recovery procedures.
Participates in the design and development of a basic contingency and disaster recovery plan for specific environment.

Vendor/Supplier Evaluations Certification: Knowledge of vendor/supplier evaluations and certification; ability to develop and use, strategies, practices and tools for evaluating, selecting and certifying vendors, suppliers and partners.
Level Working Knowledge:
Obtains vendor or supplier product or service information.
Contacts references for vendors and suppliers; records the resulting information.
Searches for vendors or suppliers that match given criteria.
Reviews and documents products or services using specific steps.
Participates in selecting, evaluating, and certifying a specific vendor/supplier and product/service.

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.

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