Supply Chain Planning Manager-Product Contorl

Supply Chain Manager

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About Large Power Systems Division

The Large Power Systems Division (LPSD) is part of Caterpillar's Power & Energy segment. Through this global organization, Caterpillar designs and manufactures large (greater than 18 liters) diesel and natural gas engines, powertrains and key engine systems. LPSD products and solutions support customers across power generation, industrial, marine, oil & gas, rail, services and Cat® machine applications worldwide.

LPSD teams work across regions and functions to deliver safe, reliable and compliant solutions that help solve our customers' toughest challenges.

Role Definition We're looking for an experienced supply chain professional to join our Large Power Systems team as a Supply Chain Manager at our Lafayette, Indiana facility.

In this role, lead the Product Change Control and New Product Introduction (NPI) Supply Chain teams, ensuring successful execution of engineering changes, new product releases, make-buy decisions, and supply chain readiness activities.

What You Will Do

• Lead Product Change Control and NPI Supply Chain teams to execute engineering changes, new product releases, make-buy decisions, and readiness activities.
• Drive end-to-end material readiness by ensuring parts availability, supplier alignment, and smooth product transitions without production disruption.
• Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Purchasing, and Operations to implement MCS and EMCC solutions for product introductions and engineering changes.
• Lead Job Readiness activities, ensuring approvals, signoffs, and milestones are completed for on-time implementation.
• Align engineering effective dates with manufacturing needs and supplier lead times to support seamless change execution.
• Develop and coach a high-performing team supporting change coordination, manufacturing releases, NPI readiness, and production support.
• Resolve complex product change, release, and supply chain issues through cross-functional collaboration.
• Drive continuous improvement in change management, job readiness, material availability, KPIs, and supply chain risk mitigation.
• Manage complex global supply chain work streams, supplier relationships, inventory strategies, and performance analysis to improve delivery and efficiency.

What You Will Have

Analytical Thinking:
Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.

Cross-Team Integration:
Understanding of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.

Planning and Organizing:
Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.

Process Improvement:
Understanding and insight into evaluating current product quality and production methods and ability to maintains focus on the continuous improvement of processes, products and services.

Project Management:
Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.

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…