Director of Logistics

Caterpillar Inc.•Morton, IL

1d•$189,080 - $283,630•Onsite

About The Position

Caterpillar has an exciting leadership opportunity and is looking to bring on a Director of Logistics for our Product Support & Logistics Division (PSLD). This division includes Caterpillar's worldwide parts distribution and integrated logistics organizations, encompassing inventory management, inbound and outbound logistics, warehousing functions, packaging, container management, and product support. PSLD has more than 50 locations around the globe, serving our customers and dealers, with employees located in 19 countries across every continent. This Director of Logistics will lead and manage logistics engineering, analytics, and network integration activities across multiple global facilities and functions using Lean principles to provide safe, compliant, efficient, and industry-leading results. The role includes the following key activities: Logistics Engineering. Logistics & Supply Chain Analytics. Business Partner Collaboration. Logistics Solutions Development.

Requirements

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. Advocates the importance of intellectual curiosity and spirit of reinvention across the organization. Introduces new perspectives and information to the team to stimulate innovation and change. Monitors and predicts industry trends and transforms business models accordingly. Promotes organizational learning through knowledge management, training and development, and sharing key experiences. Creates a climate that views ambiguity and uncertainty as innovative opportunities across the organization. Establish policies and best practices that support the value of and facilitate continuous transformation across the organization.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment. Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks. Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process. Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact. Advise others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives. Use effective decision-making approaches such as consultation, command, or consensus. Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.
Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization. Defines strategies and plans for influencing multiple decision makers. Debates issues, bringing the most critical points to the forefront for decision making. Gains acceptance of ideas and suggestions from senior business executives. Coach others on effective influencing strategies and tactics. Influences high-impact, high-risk and highly complex situations. Demonstrates ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
Logistics Management: Knowledge of logistics and management; ability to follow proper processes and run operations for effective and efficient movement of materials and finished products. Leads development of criteria and standards for measuring, improving and optimizing logistics. Consults on dealing with laws, regulations and political climates of each country. Develop strategies and answer complex questions regarding international or global logistics environment and associated logistics management issues. Leads discussions on the historical background and future perspective of logistics management. Monitors industry trends and innovations; makes recommendations for own organization. Advises on the pros and cons of using global logistics intermediaries; defines selection criteria.
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. Gains agreement on the problem-solving process, risk assessment, decision points, and criteria. Trains others in the process of eliciting alternatives and assessing their impact. Orchestrates the resolution of high-impact and cross-functional problems. Successfully organizes problem solvers and stakeholders for high-impact problems. Predicts and explains long-term trends and implications for alternatives. Monitors industry for best practices and new techniques in problem-solving.
Results Orientation: Knowledge of the importance of meeting or exceeding established targets; ability to drive critical activities to completion. Sets critical work standards and expectations for a group or unit. Recognizes significant results in ways that sustain employee motivation to achieve. Confirms achievement and acceptance of results to ensure process closure. Escalates unusual findings that could have an impact on future process cycles. Mobilizes group to anticipate likely results expected in future process cycles. Coach others to develop effective techniques for producing expected results.
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 logistical processes. Creates strategic plans for supply chains involving multiple suppliers, distribution centers and channels. Leads supply chain demand planning process and translate them to operational plans. Mentor others on how to manage and ensure a secure and reliable global supply chain. Oversee supply chains involving high-cost or high-volume production environments. Champions the use of major innovations and best practices of industry leaders. Directs complex supply chains involving multiple suppliers, distribution centers and channels.
Warehouse Management: Knowledge of the policies, processes and systems of warehouse management; ability to effectively manage one or more warehouses or distribution centers. Establishes best practices in warehouse efficiency, including techniques for layout and site selection. Participates in the design and deployment of a complete warehouse network at the company wide level. Monitors industry and champions the use of technologies for innovations. Develop plans for the flow of goods from supplier to production to customer. Select or designs new warehousing facilities. Leads in discussing approaches for determining the number, sizes and locations of required warehouses. Evaluates the cost efficiency of warehouses and makes improvements as needed. Coach others on alternative distribution designs and considerations for demand and source locations.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Determining and implementing the best logistics plans to improve safety, compliance, quality, and production / distribution.
Developing and implementing strategic initiatives for the supply and demand requirements and opportunities.
Directing the management of logistics services and budget to optimize the flow of materials and products.
Interacting with various department heads to develop trust-based relationships, resolve critical issues, and ensure operational and network goals are in line with the overall business strategy.
Leading and inspiring highly effective global teams to deliver results, ensure compliance, and safely deliver business objectives using Lean principles, even in complex and/or changing business climates.