Transportation Manager

Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation; Tamil Nadu; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a senior Transportation Manager to lead a team across India facilities, owning transportation operations within the region and optimizing networks for efficiency. You will oversee shipments, liaise with suppliers and carriers, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

The role requires extensive experience in transportation and supply chain management, strong analytical skills, and the ability to drive process improvements in a complex multi-site environment.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience is required or preferred.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in transportation and supply chain management required.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to build relationships across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Optimizing shipments and communications between distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, and suppliers.
• Organizing and monitoring surface, air and ocean transportation networks for global supply chain solutions.
• Collaborating with procurement and managing relationships with freight partners to ensure on-time delivery and improvements.

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

10+ years of relevant experience in transportation / supply chain

Job description

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.

Job Summary

Manages a team of transportation professionals located across multiple India facilities and owns transportation operations within the assigned region or country, including associated Caterpillar manufacturing plants. Oversee transportation networks and related supply-chain processes to maximize efficiency while serving internal department or business/service unit customers and external customers.

What You Will Do:

• Optimizing shipments and communications between distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, and suppliers, including Caterpillar India manufacturing plants.
• Organizing, operationalizing and monitoring surface, air and ocean transportation networks for global supply chain solutions.
• Collaborating with the procurement category and managing relationships and processes with key freight partners to ensure optimal service performance, improve on-time delivery performance and drive process improvements.
• Overseeing carrier selection and renewals and participating in contract negotiations. Seeking new carriers and transportation routes.
• Ensuring transportation operations comply with applicable customs, trade, regulatory, safety, and corporate requirements, while maintaining appropriate controls, documentation, and corrective-action processes.
• Accountable for day-to-day transportation operating results against agreed key performance indicators (KPIs), ensuring process effectiveness and timely corrective action.
• Investigate complex supply-network issues, evaluating alternative solutions and recommend / develop most effective transportation response.
• Managing transportation and related supply-network processes for Caterpillar India manufacturing plants.
• Owning parts-expediting processes and procedures for inbound shipments and transportation planning for outbound shipments.
• Managing a work unit primarily comprising management and professional employees, including monitoring and reviewing work, training, developing and mentoring team members.
• Managing personnel matters and team performance evaluations.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Degree or equivalent experience desired
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is typically required, with knowledge of transportation and supply chain management desired.
• Background in inventory management and control, purchasing and parts distribution, together with strong analytical skills, is desired.
• Strong interpersonal skills are required to build and maintain effective working relationships across the organization and with external process partners.
• Frequent travel is required, up to one full week per month.

What You Have:

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.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Implement new systems, procedures and tools efficiently when changes occur in the work environment.
• Adjust current working processes or adopt new approaches in response to changes in the business environment.
• Seeks challenging opportunities or assignments to grow and develop one's own knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Explain lessons or experiences learned from mistakes and failures as well as successes.
• Communicates and analyzes assumptions about a particular issue with colleagues to gain new perspectives or more effective solutions.

Data Gathering & Analysis

Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Participates in gathering and analyzing an organization's data based on requirements.
• Follows proper data gathering and analysis processes and policies.
• Utilizes basic data collection and evaluation tools and techniques.
• Reports problems that arise in the data collection process.
• Documents data from various sources and in various formats.

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.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
• Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
• Participate in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
• Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
• Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.
• Independently evaluates complex problems, reviews multiple possible solutions, selects an appropriate option and develops solutions where needed.

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.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Assists in the development of process flows to track lead time by activity.
• Uses tools, with guidance, to forecast delivery times, determine costs and assess performance.
• Maintains records of all shipments and invoices using an established system.
• Participates in integrating logistics processes and developing effective networks.
• Works with logistics in a domestic environment.

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.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Raises awareness of potential bottlenecks and disruptions to the schedule.
• Breaks tasks into manageable steps that can be incorporated into a personal work plan.
• Escalates concerns over competing or conflicting priorities.
• Monitors progress continuously and adjust tactics for handling situations on a case by case basis.
• Creates action plans that ensure the accomplishment of responsibilities.

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.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Provides input for Gantt or PERT charts or their equivalent to track project progress and status.
• Under guidance, plans and estimates simple projects.
• Assists in detailed project plans including cost, schedule, and resource requirements.
• Obtains information from stakeholders during the planning stage of a project.
• Produces standard project status reports.

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.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Discusses considerations for integrating partner and supplier transactions.
• Recognizes software systems or components used to manage supply chain.
• Summarizes supply chain considerations for different types of products or components.
• Participates in supply chain analysis and uses it to spot trends and improvement opportunities.
• Works with a specific part of supply chain management process.

Transportation - MFG

Knowledge of transportation; ability to transport materials and goods to and from suppliers, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities and customers.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Participates in arranging transportation of goods.
• Ensure shipments on time; anticipate and resolve shipping problems.
• Assists in calculating costs; uses associated billing and freight payment procedures.
• Follows process for issuing bids and analyzing responses from carriers.
• Works with at least one type of transportation mode and carrier.

Caterpillar 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.

What You Will Get:

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 wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits along with the potential of a variable bonus. Additional benefits include paid annual leave, flexi leave, medical and insurance (prorated based upon hire date).

Final Details:

This 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.

About Caterpillar

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.

This position requires working onsite five days a week.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

October 5, 2026 - October 11, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply