Career Area:

Strategy

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.

Our common values and focus on inclusion and respect drive the decisions made by our company, teams and people. This is why we are committed to hiring and building diverse teams representative of the customers we serve globally. When you join our team, you can apply your unique life and job experiences and work in an environment where your ideas are heard, your contributions are celebrated, and your whole-self matters.

About Cat Financial

Cat Financial is a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For more than 40 years, Cat Financial has provided a wide range of financing solutions to customers and Cat® dealers for machines, engines, Solar® gas turbines, genuine Cat parts and services. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Cat Financial serves customers globally with offices and subsidiaries located throughout North and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. Visit cat.com to learn more about Cat Financial.

Role Definition

• Leads and coaches project consultants in the execution of projects and supports strategic priorities. Partners with business leaders to support strategic priorities.

Responsibilities

• Manages complex and/or confidential projects or facilitation events requiring high level skillset to produce desired outcomes.

• Oversees the execution and development of project consultants supporting key strategic initiatives.

• Provides technical leadership and coordination of continuous improvement activities.

• Collaborates with business leaders on using a disciplined project management approach and coaching them on their project-related roles and responsibilities.

Job Requirements

• Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

• Strong ability to implement group facilitation best practices and ability to design and facilitate a group process, elicit contributions from group members, stimulate a focused group discussion, and achieve a desired outcome.

• Execute effective influencing tactics and strategies to impact decisions within and outside own organization, and across various geographic regions.

• Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

• Understanding of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.

• Be an expert in providing guidance on the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.

• Ability to champion effective change in an organization, utilizing techniques to manage the successful and smooth transition from current to desired culture, practices, structure, and overall organizational environment.

• Understanding of the criticality of getting things done despite current circumstances and the ability to utilize assigned resources and leverage back-channel resources (individuals or teams) to achieve or exceed planned outcomes.

Degree Requirement

• A 4-year college or university degree and a minimum of 5 years exempt experience in project or change management is recommended.

Additional Information:

• This role is a hybrid position and would require any successful candidate to commit to a 3 day per week in office requirement.

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 www.caterpillar.com/careers.

Posting Dates:

May 24, 2024 - June 4, 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.