Demand Planner

**Career Area**:Marketing / Sales / Product Support**:
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**Demand Planner**:
As Demand Planner, you will join a team of 3 other Demand Planners covering the largest mining market which focus on leading the planning processes, discussions and decisions maximizing customer satisfaction.

You will be responsible of the development of robust demand planning processes with selected dealers and establishing collaborative relationship with Dealers and internal stakeholder to drive the best possible decisions based on demand signals focusing on delivering accuracy and coverage.

Finally, the demand planning team is driving an increase usage of data analytics and data science in the demand planning decisions and forecasting actions taken in RI.

**Responsibilities**:

- Work directly with our distribution networks, dealers, and customers on developing and improving the demand planning processes related to critical component rebuilds and repairs.
- Ensure the demand signals captured through the demand planning processes are accurate and reliable.
- Consult on the demand signals and inventory feedback with the relevant business partners, to ensure actions maximizing machine up time are taken.
- Support projects related to the increase usage of data analytics and science in the demand planning space.

**Required Skills**:

- Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, Science or Engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years’ experience in any of the following areas: forecasting, demand planning, parts sales, parts operations.

**Desired skills**:

- Distribution network/Customers facing experience.
- Good human relations skills to develop a collaborative work relationship with key stakeholders.
- Project management skills, process/lean orientated.
- Flexible and Eager to learn.
- Creative/Think out of the box attitude/ Challenge the status quo attitude.
- Demonstrated examples of data analytics understanding
- Cat business acumen (Product line, Parts line, Parts distribution)

**Additional Skills**

**Additional Info**
- No relocation offered (Ex-Pat package)

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Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.
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