Manager NPI

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.

CATERPILLAR REMANUFACTURING

Do you have a passion for helping customers and supporting a sustainable solution? Since 1973, Cat Reman has helped bring the value at the core of every Cat product back to life. Customers look to us to provide a high-quality solution that is good for their business - and promotes sustainability. It's important to us to deliver. Our team is full of industry leaders. Together, following common values, we share a passion for delivering sustainability benefits that help the company contribute to a circular economy. It's rewarding work, with an inspiring team, where every contribution matters.

About the role:

The Remanufacturing Division has an excellent opportunity within our product team as the Manager NPI for Electronics. This position is responsible for directing a team of NPI leads to support and grow the $200M+ revenue business annually. This opportunity presents candidates with the ability to impact global sustainability, understand the Caterpillar Remanufacturing business, and develop new technologies to be implemented in a manufacturing environment.

Job responsibilities will Include but are not limited to:

• Leading the electronics, starters & alternators and/or Large Rotating Electrics Reman business from conceptional strategies to NPI implementation and product maintenance.

• Coordinating with the businesses, sales, marketing, and platform groups to manage resources for each deliverable within the project.

• Overseeing project progress and costs; communicating status with stakeholders and participating functional areas; addressing and resolving problems.

• Developing NPI leads for current and future job roles.

• Creating vision and direction for the business and translates it into a series of near term and long-range strategies and functional plans

• Lead team in market research, identifying market/customer requirements leading to new strategies development and projects.

• Communicating with customers and managing expectations; ensuring effective use of project controls and reporting mechanisms.

• Influencing and collaborating on contractual agreements with suppliers and 3rd party manufacturers.

Skill Descriptors:

• Leadership of Electronics NPI team and function: Setting strategic vision for the team and developing resource models to facilitate execution of the strategies. Continuous improvement mindset to develop growth strategies for both revenue and profit. Supporting NPI leads to execute projects through internal facilities and external supplier/3rd party remanufacturing partners.Level Extensive Experience:

• Use business acumen to develop growth goals and strategies for the Ream electronics products.

• Collaborates with business partners and develop SMART goals for the team aligned with Reman strategies.

• Negotiate Reman contractual requirements with suppliers and 3rd party vendors on a regular basis.

• Prioritize and manage workload of the team.

• Lead and inspire the Electronics team to deliver NPI activities efficiently and maximize OPACC.

• Create an engaging team culture with a growth mindset.

• 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 business plan.Level Extensive Experience:

• Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for the teams responsibilities.

• 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.

• Products and Services: Knowledge of products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.Level Extensive Experience:

• Oversees development activities for multiple products or product lines.

• Advises team on implementation and operational considerations.

• Coaches others on key factors that differentiate offerings from that of competition.

• Develops procedures for product planning, development, and delivery cycles.

• Promotes understanding of Reman processes and strategies to meet customer needs

• Monitors regulatory and environmental issues and considerations.

• 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 Expert:

• Works to create a climate that values and rewards good oral and written communication.

• Communicates effectively with diverse audiences, using appropriate media and language.

• Engage Story telling skills to communicate the strategies and project outcomes.

• Monitors developments in communications tools for potential use by organization.

• Ensures important messages are clearly understood.

• Coaches others on methods of improving their own communications.

• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.Level Extensive Experience:

• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem-solving effort.

• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.

• Uses varying problem-solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.

• Contributes to standard practices for problem-solving approaches, tools, and processes.

• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.

• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide-impact problems.

• Customer Focus: Knowledge of customer priorities and ability to utilize tools and techniques for maintaining an environment where all understand and are committed to providing excellent service to internal and external customers. Understanding of how the Reman product portfolio will benefit the customer.Level Extensive Experience:

• Communicates with customers on quality of service measurements.

• Works with marketing to develop the Reman value proposition for Reman products.

• Ensures teams maintain focus on value-added services.

• Identifies and resolves gaps in customer expectations versus actual service levels.

• Verifies customer satisfaction and keeps customers informed.

• Program Management: Knowledge of the policies and techniques to manage a set of related projects within a program; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control the set of projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve program objectives.Level Extensive Experience:

• Coaches team to evaluates risks and vulnerabilities and creates contingency plans.

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

• 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:

• Relocation assistance is available for this role.

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 an hourly wage because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides day one benefits along with the potential of annual bonuses.

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

• 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)

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Relocation is available for this position.

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 ~~~/careers.

Posting Dates:

September 26, 2024 - October 10, 2024

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

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