Business Intelligence Analyst

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.

Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world.

Job Summary:
Data is continuously generated by hundreds of thousands of Customers and Cat machines that are operated around the globe. This is creating a gold mine of information to support our customers growth and deliver insights to Caterpillar teams. The Business Intelligence analyst lead Strategic and Tactical analytic projects focus on resolving business problems to unlock service growth potentials and customer value. Turning data into insights, customer value and growth is essential to Caterpillar industries and the Cat Digital organization.

As Business Intelligence Analyst, you will join a diverse team which focuses on discovering the future of aftermarket through the analytics of field data, thus ensuring that the best decisions are made by our internal partners to achieve our Service growth goals.

Comfortable working in challenging environments with a contagious passion for leveraging data analytics to inform decisions, you will play a key role in sales development project as well as part availability initiatives by communicating understandings and representing our team.

By joining the Insights team, your contributions will support futures Service sales supporting in all industries served by Caterpillar. You will be an integral part of our team of talented Insight’s analysts covering all Caterpillar industries working alongside of other data scientists and analysts in Cat Digital organization. You will gain experience in a vibrant and diverse multinational organization and develop your understanding of business practices and the data driven revolution.
What You Will Do:

• Independent contributor to multi-person analytics teams
• Demonstrates knowledge and ability to handle basic issues independently
• Incumbents in this position will move to be a project leader on complex and highly visible projects
• Support the Business Analyst lead to achieve the annual Vertical target (in $)
• Typically, decisions will impact routine, low risk issues that may affect the project team, suppliers or internal customers
• Locating and obtaining data from various internal and external sources
• Rapidly iterations of new ideas and debug issues
• Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Caterpillar management from time to time.

What You Will Have:

• Ability to communicate with all levels of the business while showing empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need, persuading or defending a position.
• Ability to explain and simplify complex data to assist business partners and decision maker.
• Ability to put together detailed reports and visualizations based on requirement.
• Ability to develop checklists and utilize tools to ensure that information goes out error-free.
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Technical background using datasets in SQL.
• Interest for applying statistical methods and forecasting models.
• Collects required business data through various data sources and applies data analysis techniques to establish, modify, and maintain business data structures
• Exposure to specific organizational tools such as Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Exposure to process automation on large datasets.
• Communicates with professionals to understand various requirements of product design.
• Tests and evaluates alternative means of development being considered for use.
• Assists in building a complex prototype of product.

Considerations For Top Candidates Include:

• 2+ years of business insights and automation related experience preferred
• Knowledge with programming languages such as Python and R preferred
• Good statistical analysis skills desired
• Basic knowledge of Airflow and pipelines technologies

What you Will Get:

Working with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. We’ve created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us.

Additional Details:

This position has the option to be based out of either our Chicago, IL or Peoria, IL offices with a flexible hybrid work environment. 

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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:

May 24, 2024 - May 30, 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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