Senior Manager, Inventory Management

Overview

Lead Caterpillar's global aftermarket New Product Introduction Authorizations (NPI) and end-of-parts-lifecycle strategy to ensure parts readiness, material availability, and continuity of product support, using data-driven supply chain strategies and advanced analytics.

What you'll do

• Develop and execute the global aftermarket NPI and lifecycle strategy, aligning parts readiness, availability, inventory, and transition priorities with business growth, customer, and operational objectives.
• Manage global NPI Parts Readiness and Parts Availability, ensuring timely material support for new product launches and aftermarket requirements while proactively identifying and mitigating supply chain risks.
• Leverage advanced analytics, predictive forecasting, and machine learning to improve demand visibility, parts planning, inventory positioning, risk identification, and decision-making across NPI and product lifecycle activities.
• Direct end-of-life lifecycle management and Parts Disposition, balancing customer support requirements, inventory investment, obsolescence risk, and financial impact.
• Manage part, supplier, engineering, and BOD changes through structured transition strategies to ensure seamless change implementation, supply continuity, and uninterrupted aftermarket product support.
• Lead Quality Disposition activities to address supplier quality issues, accelerate cross-functional resolution, and safeguard material availability and customer commitments.
• Establish performance metrics, analytics, and governance mechanisms to monitor NPI readiness, forecast accuracy, parts availability, lifecycle transitions, inventory exposure, and supply chain risk; translate insights into actions and strategic recommendations.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration across engineering, procurement, suppliers, logistics, facilities, and product teams to accelerate NPI execution, strengthen lifecycle management, and deliver sustainable improvements supporting operational excellence and profitable growth.

What you'll need

• Degree or equivalent experience (desired).
• Knowledge of decision-making processes and tools; ability to analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Knowledge of Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) for systematically managing inventory distribution across multiple plants or warehouses.
• Knowledge of forecasting tools, approaches and practices; ability to determine product demand and estimate production requirements and loads.
• Knowledge of inventory management processes and methods; ability to manage local or distributed inventories of raw materials, work-in-progress and finished goods.
• Knowledge of planning and organizing tasks and resources; ability to structure and maintain work in a systematic and highly methodical way.
• Knowledge of approaches and tools for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems.
• Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations.
• Knowledge of supply chain management functions, principles and techniques; ability to develop and use strategies, practices and tools for controlling logistical processes.
• Understanding of inter-team collaboration; ability to lead employees from various functions and coordinate work across divisions.
• Knowledge of project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects.
• Knowledge of techniques and tools for effective analysis; ability to determine root causes of organizational problems and create alternative solutions.
• Knowledge of big-picture strategic thinking; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify key success factors.

Nice to have

• APICS CSCP/CPIM certification.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Posting dates: November 11, 2026 to November 25, 2026.