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Caterpillar, Inc. Director of Logistics - Global Packaging in Chicago, Illinois
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.
About Us:
With 2022 sales and revenues of $59.4 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.
For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.
Caterpillar does business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.
Job Description:
At Caterpillar, we help our customers build a better, more sustainable world. There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment, and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.
Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.
Caterpillar’s Product Support & Logistics Division currently has an opening for a Director of Logistics – Global Packaging .
Job Duties:
Leads and manages packaging and returnable container activities across global facilities and functions using Lean principles to provide safe, compliant, and efficient results.
This is the most senior Packaging leadership position within Caterpillar, leading global enterprise packaging design and services to 45+ facilities across all Caterpillar verticals (Construction Industries, Resource Industries, Energy & Transportation, and the Product Supply and Logistics Division). This role also manages a returnable container network for 75+ Caterpillar facilities and 500+ Caterpillar suppliers in North America, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia.
The Director of Logistics – Global Packaging is accountable to:
Lead and inspire highly effective teams to improve results, ensure compliance, and safely deliver business objectives using Lean principles.
Provide leadership, coaching, and recognition to a diverse global team, creating a values-based high-performing culture. Attract and recruit top talent.
Engage business partners upstream and downstream to develop trust-based relationships, resolve critical issues, create customer-serving solutions, deliver transparent and data-driven communications, and improve end-to-end supply chain visibility, efficiency, cost, availability, and sustainability.
Understand the relationship between business drivers and packaging for flows from suppliers to factories and for prime product leaving factories for domestic or export shipment.
Develop and implement strategic initiatives for supply and demand requirements / opportunities which deliver competitive cost and competitive performance, even in highly disrupted environments.
Incorporate market insights and market feedback into agile packaging solutions.
Deploy technology-enabled solutions to transform and elevate packaging processes, incorporating packaging requirements and specifications into new product and new source introductions globally.
Identify improvements to packaging and returnable container solutions to improve safety, quality, velocity, sustainability, and cost.
Deliver day-to-day results (safety, quality, velocity, sustainability, and cost) for the returnable container network, taking a data-driven approach to monitor and manage daily network performance. Provide accurate and timely reporting on performance measures, with root cause corrective action analysis for metrics below target.
Ensure fiscal responsibility and forecast accuracy for Global Packaging period costs, variable costs, and capital expenses.
Key Skills:
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.
Establishing and Maintaining Trust: Knowledge of developing and maintaining trust; Ability to develop trusting relationships and provide solicited, respected and valued perspectives to clients/peers that guide thinking, facilitate issue resolution and enhance client/peer capabilities.
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.
Results Orientation: Knowledge of the importance of meeting or exceeding established targets; Ability to drive critical activities to completion.
Supply Chain Management - MFG: Knowledge of functions, principles and techniques used in supply chain management; Ability to develop and use, strategies, practices and tools for controlling the logistical processes.
Logistics Management: Knowledge of logistics; ability to develop criteria and standards for measuring, improving, and optimizing logistics processes and flows for effective, efficient, and safe movement of materials and finished products.
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Policy Compliance: Formulates plans to assess potential environmental impact of alternative solutions; minimizes waste of materials, energy, and water within the organization.
Basic Qualifications:
At least 15 years of progressive experience in Packaging, Engineering, Procurement, Transportation, Logistics Operations, and / or Supply Chain Management.
Previous experience managing a global staff, leading teams to deliver complex goals and projects and / or experience growing and executing logistics capabilities and / or leading and inspiring teams across multiple regions.
Previous experience managing within a matrix organization.
Able to travel up to 25% (both domestic and international), with more frequent travel during the first 12 months of this assignment.
Top Candidates Will Also Have:
Bachelor's Degree in a Supply Chain, Logistics, or Transportation Management
Preferred: Master’s Degree in Supply Chain, a Supply Chain related field, or Business Administration
Previous experience with projects that involved packaging as part of the optimization of a network or logistics flow
Customer relationship management focus, training, or experience
Lean, 6 Sigma, or other Continuous Improvement experience
APICS or SCPro certification
Location: Morton, Illinois or Chicago, Illinois. Domestic relocation is offered for the role.
Employee benefit details
Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus. Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
Final details
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EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.
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There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.
Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.
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