Career Area:

Strategy

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.

Your Work Shapes the World

Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us.

Job Summary:

We have a great position in the Global Planning and Demand Management group to provide leadership to our product distribution through Equipment Processing Centers (EPCs). This role will have the opportunity to support machine distribution by influencing and recommending the right business decisions, leading and supporting our digital product teams as well as interacting with many organizations within the Caterpillar enterprise. This position interacts with and presents to certain senior leadership, project teams, as well as the many internal customers within Caterpillar. In the end, project execution and delivery of all related activities rests with your leadership.

Leads one or more engagements to understand, analyze, develop and recommend Strategy & Planning (S&P) solutions as a divisional lead or for a business segment.

Leads and coaches project teams in the definition and execution of projects and support of strategic priorities. Partners with business leaders to support strategic priorities.

What You Will Do:

• Relative to execution in the delivery of digital capability support Equipment Processing Centers: Ensuring project execution and delivery across all workstreams, structure and lead teams, manager overall project plan with development, deployment, and on-going maintenance, risk and issue log management and ensure solution functional works across the digital product portfolio on GPDM.

• Leads analyses and solution development for key engagement module(s) as a divisional lead or for a business segment. Performs more complex activities

• Works closely with clients to define the business problem, issues and planned approach for one or more engagement components as a divisional lead or for a business segment. .

• Oversees performance of S&P engagement data collection, research and reporting activities and staff as a divisional lead or for a business segment. Coaches junior team members and clients.

• Provides recommended solutions. Works with senior consultants / managers to develop and deliver client presentations as a divisional lead or for a business segment.

• Manages complex and/or confidential projects or facilitation events requiring high level skillset to produce desired outcomes.

• Oversees the execution and development of project consultants supporting key strategic initiatives.

• Collaborates with business leaders on using a disciplined project management approach and coaching them on their project-related roles and responsibilities.

• Executes within the Modern Order Management delivery structure and framework to achieve stakeholder alignment through structured gateways.

Education Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree

What Skills You Will Have:

Global Perspective:
• Conducts business with one or two other countries.
• Follows policies and procedures governing business activities with another country.
• Obtains information regarding operational issues of other countries when making business decisions.
• Assesses key legal, regulatory, and financial issues specific to a particular country.
• Recognizes behaviors that promote or stunt effective relationships in that country; acts accordingly.

• Has good understanding transformation and execution of those in a mixed technical environment an includes both SAP and Salesforce with a host of supporting tools.

Planning:
• Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
• Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development.
• Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.
• Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans.
• Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives.
• Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.

Consulting:
• Analyzes and fully documents client requirements.
• Applies experience to developing and executing multiple consulting assignments.
• Works with client to identify alternative solutions and associated pro's and con's.
• Prepares proposals and presentations for delivery.
• Manages all aspects and phases of a delivery relationship.
• Monitors assignments versus expectations.

Effective Communications:
• Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
• Maintains focus on the topic at hand.

Strategic Thinking:
• Implements the group's go-to-market strategy.
• Raises awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships.
• Explains elements of the strategy to others and encourages questions.
• Monitors marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities; reports findings.
• Makes sound recommendations when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.

Visioning:
• Reinforces and reiterates linkages between the team's work and the vision.
• Makes decisions grounded in relevant tenets of the vision.
• Eliminates from consideration those scenarios that are inconsistent with the vision.
• Inculcates new group members in the organizational vision and values.
• Surfaces constructive dissent.

Stakeholder Management:
• Evaluates stakeholder profiles, roles, claims and interests in an organization and how these may conflict.
• Consults stakeholders in identifying opportunities for strategic change while evaluating the strategic choices available to an organization.
• Manages conflicting stakeholder priorities, when implementing strategic-change initiatives.
• Oversees business operations and resource allocation with strategic objectives and the drivers of shareholder and stakeholder value.
• Reviews professional values and ethical judgment in all aspects of work.
• Oversees key client reviews to assure service and stakeholder satisfaction.

Consulting Process & Tools:
• Effectively manages projects ensuring objectives, deadlines, budgets are met by team members.
• Works with teams to determine handover process to ensure skills transfer, sustainability of results and appropriate knowledge capture.
• Monitors and measures satisfaction, ensuring quality of own deliverables and those of team.
• Applies knowledge, tools and technical expertise as evidenced by the creation of noted value to clients, that is tailored to their specific needs.
• Selects and uses appropriate diagnostic tools, methods and techniques and actively seeks out new and appropriate tools.
• Identifies, quantifies and manages issues impacting on project delivery.

Program Management:

• Evaluates risks and vulnerabilities and creates contingency plans.

• Advises others on preferred tools, techniques and methods for estimating program cost and time.

• Conducts regular and ad-hoc program reviews with project managers, team and clients with an understanding of the gateway structure for program approvals.

• Coaches others in maintaining open communication among project managers and interested parties.

• Oversees reporting requirements and creates monitoring and control mechanisms.

• Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes and monitors a set of projects within a program.

Additional Information

The location for this position is Peoria, IL.

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.

This position may require up to 25% travel.

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:

• Competitive Base Salary
• Annual incentive bonus plan*
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
• 401k savings plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Life Insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

Final details

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This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S. which can be found through our employment website at www.Caterpillar.com/Careers.

For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media

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Posting Dates:

August 5, 2024 - August 19, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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