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.
Responsible for the design, standardization, and deployment of a common, demand driven S&OP process across machines, engines, and components. This role enables consistent, constraint based planning and decision-making by integrating demand signals, long-term forecasts, capacity drivers, and analytics within the enterprise S&OP framework.
What You Will Do:
Lead deployment of a standard enterprise S&OP operating model, including planning horizons, cadence, inputs/outputs, and decision rights.
Standardize S&OP processes across machines, engines, and components, ensuring structural alignment of demand, supply, and capacity plans.
Integrate demand driven planning principles (signal based demand, buffers, decoupling points, flow based metrics) into S&OP execution.
Own long-term demand planning (12–36+ months), translating demand into capacity, labor, tooling, and capital requirements.
Develop and support scenario analyses to evaluate tradeoffs across service, inventory, margin, and capacity recovery.
Ensure capacity plans are synchronized across machines, engines, and components, with clear visibility to bottlenecks and dependencies.
Collaborate with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, IT, and Commercial teams to ensure alignment and execution readiness.
Education Requirement:
Job Impact
What Skills You Will Have:
Effectiveness Measurement
Analytical Thinking
Cross Team Integration
Decision Making & Critical Thinking
Project Management
Plans, staffs, and monitors complex projects using established cost, schedule, and risk management tools.
Standard Operating Procedures
Supplier Management – Manufacturing
Supply Chain Management – Manufacturing
Technical & Functional Skills
Planning Systems & ERP Experience
Familiarity with enterprise grade ERP platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle) including demand/supply, BOMs, routings, and planning parameters.
Planning & Analytics Platforms
Experience with cloud based planning tools for forecasting, S&OP modeling, and scenario development (SAP IBP, Kinaxis, o9, Anaplan, etc.).
Data & Visualization Tools
Data Integration & Engineering Familiarity
Exposure to SQL, Python, Databricks, or similar tools used in planning model development and analytics workflows.
Manufacturing & Capacity Knowledge
Understanding of manufacturing capacity drivers (labor cells, machining centers, test stands, supplier constraints).
Collaboration Tools
Experience using SharePoint, Teams, and similar tools for governance documentation, standard work, and S&OP meeting content.
Top Candidates Will Also Have:
Additional Details:
Summary Pay Range:
$128,470.00 - $192,710.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
401(k) savings plans*
Health Savings Account (HSA)*
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
Health Lifestyle Programs*
Employee Assistance Program*
Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
Career Development*
Incentive bonus*
Disability benefits
Life Insurance
Parental leave
Adoption benefits
Tuition Reimbursement
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
Posting Dates:
March 23, 2026 - April 5, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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