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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.\nSupply Chain Services Overview:\nSupply Chain Services team is focused on improving Caterpillar’s overall supply chain performance. This group is responsible for seamless execution of critical processes in the areas of Inventory Management, New Product Introduction (NPI), Continuous Product Improvement (CPI), Supply Chain Solutions, Inventory Control Services and Business Analytics. Supply Chain Services team delivers value by initiating and driving business-critical projects and solutions.\nCaterpillar Returnship is a 24-week company paid; office-based program designed to enable a soft launch for experienced professionals on a career break. This initiative includes, networking sessions, coaching, trainings, and a project / work scope assignment.\nEligibility to apply - Career break of minimum 6 months.\n\nWhat You Will Do:\nDesign and develop solutions to improve customer experience and mitigate business challenges.\nLead, motivate people and encourage teamwork to ensure successful completion of programs/ projects.\nCollaborate with cross functional team to understand process challenges and lead discussion to identify improvement opportunities.\nResponsible provide technical and functional guidance and lead data analytics team.\nBridge Technical and Business teams to arrive at potential technical solution for global facilities.\nWork independently on defining and testing complex programs, processes, or systems.\nSupport in the functional design, development, maintenance/administration, prioritization and/or upgrades of major system modules and programs.\nBecome fully knowledgeable of Caterpillar application infrastructure components: the current operating environment, program design and specification development, programming logic, logic diagrams, testing, debugging and documentation.\nAnalyse and model user requirements, specify information flows, processes, procedures, data objects and dialogues between information systems and their users.\n\nWhat You Have:\nBusiness Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; 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ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.\nLevel Extensive Experience:\nReviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.\nAdapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.\nDemonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.\nCommunicates well downward, upward, and outward.\nEmploys appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.\nMaintains focus on the topic at hand.\n\nProblem 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.\nLevel Extensive Experience:\nEnsures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.\nOrganizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.\nUses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.\nContributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.\nAnalyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.\nDevelops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.\n\nData Gathering and Reporting: Knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.\nLevel Extensive Experience:\nPrepares cost-benefit analyses of alternative approaches.\nAnalyzes complex reports as revealed by the data.\nTeaches others the calculations necessary to capture data and develop more complex reports.\nOversees multiple data-gathering and analysis initiatives.\nParticipates in developing criteria for selecting data gathering and reporting tools and techniques for various projects.\nReviews and verifies data and reports for accuracy.\n\nData Visualization: Knowledge of principles, techniques and processes of data visualization; ability to create high quality figures effectively for various business scenarios and storytelling.\nLevel Extensive Experience:\nDesigns data visualization for complex scenarios and customizations to support data-driven decision making.\nImproves the efficiency and effectiveness of data visualization processes.\nCoaches others on the techniques and tools of data visualization.\nProvides advice on data visualization solutions to better convey the essential information to target audience.\nEnsures data visualization results are accurate, secure and accessible to necessary users.\nExplores new adoption scenarios of data visualization within the business unit.\n\nInventory Management: Knowledge of processes and methods of inventory management; ability to effectively manage organization's materials, commodities, merchandises, or products.\nLevel Extensive Experience:\nCoordinates daily work of inventory management for different locations within a facility or a supply network.\nDevises standard inventory management benchmarks to improve the processes.\nEnsures that the inventory is at an appropriate level and meets both internal and external requirements.\nProvides guidance on inventory management for a specific product group or location.\nApplies systems and processes to identify and coordinate inventory requirements; resolves conflicts.\nReviews reports used for inventory management to find out related problems.\nCaterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status; however, as a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of India which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.\nFinal Details:\nPlease frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application - please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.\nIf you are interested in joining our team, please apply using an English version of your CV. We look forward to meeting you!\nThis Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. 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