Lead Business Intelligence Analyst

Caterpillar Inc.•Mossville, IL

3d•$128,470 - $192,710•Onsite

About The Position

Caterpillar's Power & Energy Procurement organization plays a critical role in supporting all divisions within Power & Energy. Our work is geared towards our pistons of Predictable Supply Excellence, Optimized Total Cost of Ownership, Supplier Relationship Management and Lifecycle Sourcing Strategy. We continue to develop suppliers who competitively deliver operational excellence, enabling our customers to build a better world. With a strong focus on data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency, Power & Energy Procurement leverages advanced tools and processes to connect the physical and digital supply chain, enabling business units to deliver high-performance solutions that meet evolving customers and business needs. We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Business Intelligence Analyst as part of the Power & Energy Cost COE team within Procurement! This position will solve challenging business visualization problems through creativity and driving structure; it offers both autonomy and a chance to make an immediate impact. You will have the opportunity to design and build quantitative methods such as business simulations, data mining, modeling, and advanced statistical techniques to drive strategic cost reduction efforts. The Lead Business Intelligence Analyst contributes to this mission by acting as the leader of analytics project teams tasked with solving problems of medium to high complexity.

Requirements

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
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.
Business Data Analysis: Knowledge of business data analysis; ability to collect, identify, analyze, and interpret business data using various kinds of techniques to meet business needs and requirements.
Business Assessment: Knowledge of the activities, tasks, practices, and deliverables for assessing and documenting business opportunities; ability to assess the benefits, risks, and success factors of potential applications.
Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.

Nice To Haves

Project management portfolio experience from effective requirements gathering, risk management through visualizing insights
Working knowledge of two or more programming languages
Experience with data automation
Ability to build sound networks within the technical community to enable collaboration on technical solutions, obtain resources and cooperation needed, and removal of roadblocks ensuring the success of activities.
Ability to work with a diverse group of employees and customers.
Experience or working knowledge with Snowflake platform.

Responsibilities

Develop quantitative approaches, such as business simulations, data mining, modeling, and advanced statistical analysis, to support strategic cost reduction initiatives, including: Inventory, material, and new product introduction costs, along with trend analysis. Suppliers spend and product attributes Commodity and index-based inflationary costs Freight and logistics costs Product demand and variability levels
Coach and mentor junior scientists in developing, validating, and applying statistical models, as well as implementing digital solutions
Explore and apply new methods and digital technologies to enhance customer outcomes