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:
- Focuses on ensuring the timely and efficient supply of materials needed for production, while also optimizing inventory levels and costs.
What the candidate will do:
- Ensuring that the environment of the inventory stock room is in line with requirements for each product.
- Ensuring the timely and cost-effective availability of materials needed for production
- Responsible for the personnel development, supervising and developing materials planning staff, ensuring they have the necessary skills and knowledge
- Recommend and maintaining optimal inventory levels to prevent shortages and overstocking, while minimizing holding costs. Performing inventory analysis.
Degree Requirement:
- Bachelor's degree in administration, business, international relations, commerce, any engineering or similar field.
- Fluent English
Planning:
- Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) related to material requirements, identifying areas for improvement, and reporting on performance
- Coordinating with internal departments (e.g., purchasing, production, warehousing) to ensure smooth material flow, leveraging advanced knowledge of SAP and planning tools when required.
- Creates, establish, manage, communicate and reviews the inventory plan for the business unit
- Ensures the inventory its aligned with the business unit goals
- Attention to the details, proactively attend the process deviations, manage alternate scenarios when necessary to satisfy customer demand and business unit goals.
- Manage and implements in a timely manner a plan for the business unit changes and demand variation by expertise in SAP and MRP systems.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
- Gathers, validates and organizes important data for own and/or team processes including risk assessments using data analysis
- Leads critical material availability situations and provides different alternatives to prevent operations impact.
- Identifies, recognizes, provides clarity and prioritizes daily work, critical situations and immediate manager or business unit requirements for own and the team.
- Provides clarity and assess risks, pros/cons and/or gives recommendations or implements alternatives as necessary, applying decision-making tools to evaluate cost and benefits
Problem Solving:
- Manage each issue or problem starting to identify the root-causes and ECA, ICA and PCA's, as well as the documentation of the problem-solving tool that better applies for each situation, incorporating data analysis methodology
- Provides different scenarios and alternatives to mitigate the potential risks, applying problem-solving tools to ensure effective outcomes.
- Analyze in a holistic way the situations, problems, issues in order to implement the adequate corrective actions, including documentation of improvement ideas for continuous process enhancement.
Inventory Management:
- Performs inventory management reports to monitor inventory levels, share projections and define the best inventory strategy.
- Performs tracking inventory information/reports for all the inventory groups
- Resolves inventory discrepancies.
Supply Chain Management:
- Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions | Builds strong synergy with internal and external suppliers and customers, integrates them effectively, and promotes collaboration throughout the supply chain.
- Participates in supply chain analysis and leverages insights to identify trends and improvement opportunities | Conducts supply chain analysis to uncover process improvement opportunities.
Top Candidates Will Also Have:
- Master’s degree
- Conversational English
- Strong skills in team management and supervision
- Advanced use of ERP (SAP)
Additional Information:
- Location: Acuña Coahuila
- Sponsorship for foreign candidates aren´t available
- Domestic Relocation assistance is available for this position.
- Don’t forget to include a resumé in English in your profile in Workday
Final details
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Posting Dates:
December 11, 2025 - December 18, 2025
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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