Inventory analyst - Returnship

Overview

Returnship role in Caterpillar's Supply Chain Services team, focused on inventory management and supporting business-critical supply chain projects, as part of a 24-week company-paid, office-based program for experienced professionals returning from a career break.

What you'll do

• Design and develop solutions to improve customer experience and mitigate business challenges.
• Lead and motivate people and encourage teamwork to ensure successful completion of programs and projects.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand process challenges and lead discussions to identify improvement opportunities.
• Provide technical and functional guidance and lead the data analytics team.
• Bridge technical and business teams to arrive at potential technical solutions for global facilities.
• Work independently on defining and testing complex programs, processes, or systems.
• Support the functional design, development, maintenance/administration, prioritization and/or upgrades of major system modules and programs.
• Become fully knowledgeable of Caterpillar application infrastructure components, including the operating environment, program design and specification development, programming logic, logic diagrams, testing, debugging and documentation.
• Analyse and model user requirements, specify information flows, processes, procedures, data objects and dialogues between information systems and their users.

What you'll need

• Business acumen: working knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes needed for sound decision making; comments on the organization's business model and financial goals; cites examples of information needed for business decisions; participates in business tasks in own unit or area; caters to key stakeholders and their priorities.
• Standard operating procedures: basic understanding of established SOPs, including compiling current relevant research, explaining their usage in business operations, describing main issues and considerations, and identifying key features and functions.
• Effective communication: extensive experience reviewing others' writing or presentations and providing feedback and coaching; adapting documents and presentations for the intended audience; demonstrating empathy and assertiveness when communicating needs or defending positions; communicating well downward, upward, and outward; employing appropriate methods of persuasion; maintaining focus on the topic at hand.
• Problem solving: extensive experience ensuring lessons are captured from problem-solving efforts; organizing potential problem solvers and leading resolution efforts; using varying problem-solving approaches and techniques; contributing to standard problem-solving practices; analyzing and synthesizing information to devise alternative resolution strategies; developing successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.
• Data gathering and reporting: extensive experience preparing cost-benefit analyses of alternative approaches; analyzing complex reports; teaching others the calculations needed to capture data and develop complex reports; overseeing multiple data-gathering and analysis initiatives; participating in developing criteria for selecting data gathering and reporting tools and techniques; reviewing and verifying data and reports for accuracy.
• Data visualization: extensive experience designing data visualizations for complex scenarios and customizations to support data-driven decisions; improving the efficiency and effectiveness of visualization processes; coaching others on visualization techniques and tools; advising on visualization solutions to convey essential information to target audiences; ensuring visualization results are accurate, secure and accessible; exploring new adoption scenarios within the business unit.
• Inventory management: extensive experience coordinating daily inventory management work across locations within a facility or supply network; devising standard inventory management benchmarks; ensuring inventory levels meet internal and external requirements; providing guidance on inventory management for specific product groups or locations; applying systems and processes to identify and coordinate inventory requirements and resolve conflicts; reviewing inventory management reports to identify related problems.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Office-based program.
• 24-week company-paid program including networking sessions, coaching, trainings, and a project/work scope assignment.
• Eligibility: career break of a minimum of 6 months.
• Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status.
• Posting dates: October 27, 2026 - November 9, 2026.