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.
Key Roles:
• Manage carrier selection and renewals, including contract negotiations to ensure service level expectations.
• Drive continuous improvement in logistics processes through prioritization and project planning.
• Develop and maintain cost estimates, forecasts, and models; track costs and savings across transportation modes.
What You’ll Do
• Accountable for all carrier selection and renewals. Plays key role in contract negotiations and interfacing with selected carriers necessary to maintain expected levels of service.
• Overseeing carrier selection and renewals. Participating in contract negotiations and interfacing with selected carriers necessary to maintain expected levels of service.
• Inspires continuous improvement of logistics processes through process improvement, prioritization, and project planning.
• Owns the development and maintainence cost estimates, forecasts, and cost models. Tracking costs and savings for all transportation modes.
What We’re Looking For
✅ Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, transportation, or distribution operations or related field (or equivalent experience).
✅ Relevant work experience typically 5–7+ years for a manager-level role.
✅ Experience managing carrier selection, contract negotiations, and service level agreements.
✅ Supervising warehouse or distribution center operations.
✅ ** Only for Candidate with Full Working Rights in Thailand **
✅ Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher.
✅ Proficiency in data analysis tools for logistics (Excel, ERP systems, BI tools).
✅ Hands-on experience with real-time inventory software and warehouse management systems.
Skill Descriptors
Distribution Center Management: Knowledge of distribution center management; ability to operate a warehouse or distribution center that handles the flow of goods from supplier to production to customer.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Helps minimize bottlenecks and delays and the resulting impact on operating costs.
• Uses real-time inventory software, with guidance, to move supplies where needed, when needed.
• Maintains item and inventory management records.
• Assists in resolving issues related to physical space management.
• Works with Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) processes and operations.
Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.
• Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.
• Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.
• Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.
• Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.
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 Working Knowledge:
• 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.
• Uses flow charts, Pareto charts, fish diagrams, etc. to disclose meaningful data patterns.
• 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.
Continuous Transformation: Knowledge of evolving the business to remain competitive; ability to understand, adapt oneself to, respond to and proactively seek changes and innovation in the business environment to improve the competitive advantage of an organization.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Implements new systems, procedures and tools efficiently when changes occur in the work environment.
• Adjusts current working processes or adopts new approaches in response to changes in the business environment.
• Seeks challenging opportunities or assignments to grow and develop one's own knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Explains lessons or experiences learned from mistakes and failures as well as successes.
• Communicates and analyzes assumptions about a particular issue with colleagues to gain new perspectives or more effective solutions.
Data Gathering & Analysis: Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Participates in gathering and analyzing an organization's data based on requirements.
• Follows proper data gathering and analysis processes and policies.
• Utilizes basic data collection and evaluation tools and techniques.
• Reports problems that arise in the data collection process.
• Documents data from various sources and in various formats.
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 Working Knowledge:
• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• 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.
Results Orientation: Knowledge of the importance of meeting or exceeding established targets; ability to drive critical activities to completion.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Maintains focus on critical work standards and expectations.
• Holds self and others accountable for delivering on all commitments.
• Takes full responsibility for work outcomes (both positive and negative).
• Documents how results were obtained to support knowledge transfer and best practices.
• Helps others drive tasks to completion as appropriate.
Warehouse Management: Knowledge of the policies, processes and systems of warehouse management; ability to effectively manage one or more warehouses or distribution centers-
Level Basic Understanding:
• Identifies basic materials handling equipment and storage facilities.
• Describes the role of a distribution center in the supply chain.
• Explains key warehousing functions and roles and responsibilities of warehouse staff.
• Describes basic measurements of operational and distribution performance.
On-Site Full Time
Working Hours: Monday – Friday 07:30 am. – 04:30 pm.
Work location: Caterpillar (Thailand) Ltd. 337/1 Moo 3, T. Nong La Lok, A. Ban Khai, Rayong 21120, Thailand
Posting Dates:
December 10, 2025 - December 31, 2025
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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