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Career Area:

Business Technologies, Digital and Data

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:

The Digital Product Senior Manager will drive development of the Product Cost Thread, an initiative to capture supplier commodity details to enable the following for Caterpillar:

• Optimize cost with better data in negotiations, prescriptive claw back opportunities, etc.​

• Process efficiency including semi-automated contractual commodity and other type of adjustments​

• Insightful forecasting based on simulation that can be broken down and forecasted by commodity​

• Enable improved hedging and other corporate processes

What You Will Do:

• Lead prioritization of issues, enhancements, new features. Monitor and report on PCT progress.

• Execute with data/technology/analytics team and process leads to develop and deploy new features and new releases on schedule.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the enterprise to position and promote PCT.

Education Requirement:

Bachelor’s degree, preferably a technical degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field.

What Skills You Will Have:

Decision Making and Critical Thinking:

• Analyzes and drives discussion of alternatives with multiple stakeholders.

• Monitors developments in critical-thinking and decision-making models for potential use by organization.

• Anticipates special issues and considerations for effective decision-making during a crisis.

Effective Communication:

• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.

• Communicates effectively downward, upward, and outward.

• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.

Digital Change Request Management:

• Demonstrates in-depth experience managing product change requests from all sources.

• Contributes to best practices for effective change request management processes.

• Collaborates with internal groups and providers to formalize linkages for request processing.

Digital Product Business Knowledge:

• Drives functional enhancements and anticipates new opportunities and needs.

• Considers feedback from current and potential users, analysts and users of competitive products.

• Defines and communicates product strategy, vision and functional roadmap.

Digital Product Management:

• Leads multiple products or multiple releases of a critical product.

• Manages conflicts between business unit teams.

• Steers gathering, summarizing and prioritizing ideas for new products, or new versions of existing products.

Digital Product Technical Knowledge:

• Expert on technical and infrastructure components of the digital product.

• Collects, documents and maintains product configuration requirements and instances.

• Drives recommendations and documentation on technical issues

Additional Information

The location for this position is Mossville, IL.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Any relocation costs incurred would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

This position will require less than 10% 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

Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.

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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Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. 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.

Posting Dates:

July 2, 2024 - July 8, 2024

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

EEO/AA Employer. All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.

Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.