About This Role
This role involves leading a team of transportation professionals across multiple facilities in India and managing transportation operations for a specific region or country, including Caterpillar manufacturing plants. The manager will oversee transportation networks and related supply-chain processes to maximize efficiency while serving internal and external customers.
Responsibilities
- Optimize shipments and communications between distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, and suppliers, including Caterpillar India manufacturing plants
- Organize, operationalize, and monitor surface, air, and ocean transportation networks for global supply chain solutions
- Collaborate with the procurement category and manage relationships and processes with key freight partners to ensure optimal service performance, improve on-time delivery performance, and drive process improvements
- Oversee carrier selection and renewals and participate in contract negotiations
- Seek new carriers and transportation routes
- Ensure transportation operations comply with applicable customs, trade, regulatory, safety, and corporate requirements, while maintaining appropriate controls, documentation, and corrective-action processes
- Account for day-to-day transportation operating results against agreed key performance indicators (KPIs), ensuring process effectiveness and timely corrective action
- Investigate complex supply-network issues, evaluate alternative solutions, and recommend/develop the most effective transportation response
- Manage transportation and related supply-network processes for Caterpillar India manufacturing plants
- Own parts-expediting processes and procedures for inbound shipments and transportation planning for outbound shipments
- Manage a work unit primarily comprising management and professional employees, including monitoring and reviewing work, training, developing, and mentoring team members
- Manage personnel matters and team performance evaluations
Requirements
- Degree or equivalent experience desired
- A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is typically required, with knowledge of transportation and supply chain management desired
- Background in inventory management and control, purchasing and parts distribution, together with strong analytical skills, is desired
- Strong interpersonal skills are required to build and maintain effective working relationships across the organization and with external process partners
- Frequent travel is required, up to one full week per month
Important Details
- Travel: Frequent travel is required, up to one full week per month
About the Company
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