Grade Control Portfolio Manager

Career Area:

Engineering

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.

Description

As a Portfolio Manager within Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT), you will have a passion for ensuring that Grade Control customers are supported in all aspects of the product life cycle. You will work with CTCT, Caterpillar and Trimble employees to determine the business problems that need to be solved to ensure success in providing tiered solutions aligned with our strategy.  The Portfolio Manager will help develop the product roadmap in collaboration with Caterpillar Earthmoving product groups and the CTCT Product, Portfolio and Customer Segment teams. Your core purpose will be to lead by example and be the voice of business for Caterpillar within CTCT, putting the end customer at the center of all we do.

You’ll be joining the team in an exciting growth phase, and we will be looking for you to hit the ground running. Serving as a key conduit between the Caterpillar Earthmoving Product Groups and CTCT product teams, you will use your exceptional communication and diplomacy skills to ensure the success of the CTCT Grade Control Portfolio and enable Trimble and Caterpillar to not only win in the market but help shape the industry. 

Job Duties

• Working with the Earthmoving product groups and CTCT Customer Segment team, apply your knowledge of the Grade Control market and its competitive landscape to provide problem statements, objectives, hypotheses, money stories, and expected outcomes to the CTCT Product Teams.
• Own the translation and representation of product requests from Caterpillar Earthmoving product groups and their respective priority in the product team backlogs. 
• Help develop the tiered offering strategy to ensure the parent business areas and product groups will be as successful as possible with the growing portfolio of CTCT products over their lifecycle. 
• Effectively advocate for easy to use, tiered solutions that are built on the platform, upgradeable, interoperable and extensible. 
• Working with the CTCT Customer Segment team, support market research and competitive evaluations, and share that information widely to seed understanding.
• Competently employ Aha! as the source of truth in the representation of the above. 
• Work in collaboration with the Caterpillar Earthmoving product groups to develop go to market strategies appropriate for their targeted customer segments.
• Work in a worldwide team with key directives to help shape the Grade Control platform strategy and MGPP.
• Use data to prioritize and deliver the best possible solution for our customers and assist both parents with successful product launches, sales, adoption, and usage. 
• Stay current with industry trends and market insights to inform product strategy.
• Guide the adoption of business objectives and key results, and the use of dashboards to track and measure success.
• Foster a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation throughout the product lifecycle in partnership with engineering and user experience leaders.

Skill Descriptors

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall CTCT business plan and strategy.
Level Working Knowledge:
• Contributes to short-term operational plans.
• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience:
• 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.
What you have - Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or other relevant degree or 5+ years relevant industry experience
• 5+ years of technology product development, product management, or other related experience

Top Candidates will also bring:

• 5+ years of machine control industry or related experience
• Experience working in a collaborative global team with cultural differences
• Growth minded self-starter with demonstrated passion for the industry
• Having a flexible approach to working in a changing environment

Additional Info:

The locations for this position are Mossville, IL; Aurora, IL; or Cary, NC

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.

This position will require up to 15% travel.

Employee benefit details

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 a salary because we value your performance.  We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).

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 .

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Posting Dates:

February 14, 2024 - February 28, 2024

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

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