Distribution Consultant

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With a history dating back more than 90 years, Perkins is one of the world's largest suppliers of diesel engines. Our aim is to set standards of engineering excellence by providing the most comprehensive range of innovative and reliable power solutions, tailored to meet our customers' precise requirements. We are proud of our reputation as a socially responsible company, improving the lives of not only our employees, but the communities in which we work. The Perkins mission statement defines our business philosophy: "We create value for our customers and distributors by providing competitive and reliable industrial power solutions.

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Job Description:

The Global Supply Chain (GSC) team of Caterpillar's Retail Electric Power Division (REPS) is centrally responsible for the Order to Delivery of products out of 7 global facilities. This is an independent contributor role reporting to the Global Supply Chain Manager of the REPS division. 

What you will do:

- Lane strategy: Independently lead and implement Lane strategy for REPS gensets to maximize supply chain efficiency by offering improved availability to customers and minimizing/prioritizing inventory across nodes. Laison with Sales, Demand, Engineering, Product Definition and Supply Chain teams.

- Sales & Operations Planning: Work closely with the demand and finance team to drive initiatives to improve forecast accuracy for the facilities by benchmarking the current processes to the corporate best-practices.

- Digital solutions: Assess, identify, charter roadmap and implement digital solutions for the work streams.

- Communicate with senior leadership and stakeholders on the opportunities, solution and implementation plan. In addition to technical skills, Distribution consultants need to demonstrate fully skilled levels of leadership competencies.

- Although the requirements above describe most of the responsibilities, due to the breadth of issues that arise on projects, it is expected that a Distribution consultant will take on other responsibilities.

Skills:

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.

Partnering for Clients' Success: Knowledge of and insight into clients' key objectives and ability to work and think alongside clients to achieve clients' current and future aspirations and successes.

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.

Basic requirements:

- Bachelor Degree

- Pre advanced English

Top candidates will also have:

- Minimum of 15 years of supply chain, sales or related experience.

- Minimum 3-5 years of sales experience.

- Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.

- Preferrable to have a good knowledge of REPS business and products.

- Post graduate degree in business, supply chain, logistics, or industrial engineering.

- Ability to analyze data, identify trends, and develop data-driven solutions.

- Develop and deploy creative / original solutions to complex problems.

- Ability to manage projects, track progress, resolve roadblocks and meet deadlines.

- Preferrable to have Analytics and Visualization tools Skills (R, SQL, Python, Excel, Access, & Tableau).

Additional Information:

- This position requires up to 25% travel throughout the year.

Note: This position requires the candidate to work on-site five days a week.

Some of the offered benefits*:

·Medical plan 

·Dental plan

·Medicines reimbursement 

·Psychological, Legal, Social and Finance Support Program

·Private pension plan

·Profit share

·Meal assistance 

·Christmas basket

·Life and personal insurance

·Extended maternity and paternity leave

·Employee resources group (Young Professional, Women in Networking, LAMBDA (LGBTQIA+), Latin Group and Active in Sport

*Caterpillar reserves the right to change or modify benefits at any time, subject prior notice and in compliance with legal requirements. Benefit elegibility may vary by position and location

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