Senior Large Electric Power Solutions Master Portfolio Governance Manager

Caterpillar Inc. • Griffin, GA

7d • Onsite

About The Position

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. About EPD: Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations! Job Summary: Solutions Portfolio Master Governance Manager role will be focused on managing slotting and sourcing strategy for North America. Enclosure Solutions - Portfolio Master Governance Manager – Coordinate slotting optimization, Customer/Account scheduling priority, capacity reservation requirements and capacity expansion considerations for North American network and internal facilities. Up to date AMER portfolio view allows real time determination of build slot availability for enclosures.

Requirements

• 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.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• 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.
• Negotiating: Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.
• Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Experience within the Electric Power Industry
• Configuration experience with Gensets

Responsibilities

• Following organizational policies and procedures and maintaining clear and direct line of communication within the organization to meet customer requirements.
• Consult with dealers and internal business partners on the subject of sales and service support of product to “corporate account” customers.
• Design processes for informing customers of rates, shipping date, anticipated delays and any additional information needed by the customer.
• Maintain a portfolio visualization tool showing the following: Current slotting plans for firm orders, Current slotting plans for high-probability projects, Currently secured manufacturing capacity – noting any associated limitations, Project opportunities by probability and with associated risks, Non – Project capacity hold requests, Available manufacturing capacity not currently secured.
• Coordinate a weekly “key genset actions” discussion.
• Estimate and monitor genset availability and high-level configuration for project opportunities
• Monitor genset availability shifts potentially impacting firm build slotting
• Accountable for TSS / Engineering collaboration verifying detailed generator BOM
• Continuously monitor for impactful change order requests.
• Continuously update or highlight the following in the visualization tool: Customer requested changes impacting firm build slotting, Cat Solutions driven changes impacting firm build slotting, Genset availability changes impacting firm build slotting, Genset availability for project opportunities.
• Coordinate / Facilitate a weekly Portfolio review discussion with key stakeholders:
• Determine portfolio level implications of any changes impacting planned build slotting.
• Identify and assign necessary remediation.
• Determine the optimal manufacturing location for each project opportunity and capacity hold request, potentially holding open several possible scenarios for consideration as other elements resolve.
• Determine if additional manufacturing capacity reservations are warranted based on project opportunities or capacity hold requests visible to TSS (specifically not referencing the RFP).
• Recommend key actions/assignments to ensure optimized sales and build slot utilization.
• Based on the context, scenarios and pending actions, recommend an “availability statement” for stakeholder approval.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)
• 401(k) savings plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
• Health Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Program
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts
• Career Development
• Incentive bonus
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree