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Career Area:

Sales

Job Description:

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Job Summary:

Caterpillar’s Services and Solutions (CS&S) group, part of the Resource Industries Sales, Services, and Technology division is currently seeking a Senior Product Consultant. In this role, you will be responsible for fulfilling customers' specific contractual commitments in a profitable manner. These commitments include specific deliverables in equipment management, production optimization, safety, sustainability, and financial performance. You will work directly with customer executive management, plant management, and equipment operators.

The Senior Product Consultant has primary responsibility for managing the Dealer partnership assuring strong relations and profitable Dealer results. We have a fabulous team that does some of the most exciting work at Caterpillar, and we can’t wait for you to join the team!

What you will do:

• Leading customer engagements and providing matrix leadership for contract execution.

• Achieving alignment of various parties at Caterpillar, Dealers, and key end-user personnel.

• Partnering with Dealer personnel to direct the day-to-day activity related to contractual commitments at each site contract.

• Successfully delivering on all areas of contractual commitments by utilizing a complete understanding of Caterpillar and Dealer Capability.

• Providing a clear vision for success and driving high levels of execution to achieve our commitments through your deep subject matter expertise in equipment management, production optimization, safety, sustainability, and financial structuring.

• Providing and applying solutions to problems in a customer-working environment.

• Working with Caterpillar Product Groups and other internal Business Units to completely understand the technical and operational capabilities of our equipment, technology, and services.

• Creating innovative new value-added capabilities to improve site operations in a manner that Caterpillar and Dealers can grow profitability and reduce risk.

What you will have:

Customer Focus : Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Works with Dealers and Customers

• Facilitates creation of the 'right' products and services to resolve customer business issues.

• Fosters strong customer relationships via delivery on commitments, open communication, and on-going feedback/improvement.

• Advises others on creating customer focused environments in various scenarios.

• Anticipates customer needs, focusing efforts to proactively meet needs and exceed customer expectations.

• Measures and observes customer satisfaction levels to ascertain and implement service improvement alternatives.

• Communicates and models the criticality of customer focus as an organizational strategy.

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

Level Working Knowledge:

• Obtains information about product and service linkages with other products and services elsewhere in organization.

• Researches the target market and how the product and services are sold and delivered.

• Explains current status, delivery alternatives and announced updates to products and services.

• Summarizes key features of major products or services in own unit.

• Assesses own unit's product alternatives, costs, and pricing.

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.

Relationship Management : Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Communicates to clients regarding expectations of all parties.

• Participates in negotiating the terms of the business relationship.

• Conducts periodic reviews of work effort, progress, issues, and successes.

• Maintains productive, long-term relationships with clients or vendors.

• Creates opportunities to educate support teams on client priorities.

• Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.

Technical Excellence : Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Mining and Equipment Management or Fleet Management skill.

• Advises others on the assessment and provision of all technical solutions.

• Engages appropriate subject matter resources to effectively resolve technical issues.

• Mentors others to enhance their technical competence and its application to achieve more effective technical solutions.

• Coaches others in promoting, defining, analyzing, and providing superior technical solutions to business problems.

• Provides effective solutions to moderate technical challenges through strong technical competence, effectively examining implications of events and issues.

• Assumes accountability for personal technical performance and holds others responsible for theirs.

Additional Information:

• The primary location for this position is Peoria, IL or Tucson, AZ

• Domestic relocation assistance is available

• This position may require 50% travel depending upon selected candidate’s location

• Sponsorship is not available

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.)

• Defined Contribution Pension Plan

• Employee Share Purchase Plan

• Short and long-term disability coverage

• Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Programs

*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.

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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 3, 2024 - July 21, 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.