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• We have an exciting opportunity for a Parts Inventory Analyst where you’ll play a vital role in helping our dealers optimize their inventory strategies and improve parts availability. Through data-driven insights, close collaboration, and impactful projects, you’ll contribute to achieving our service and inventory objectives across the Europe, Africa, and Middle East (EAME) region. You’ll be part of the newly established Dealer Aftermarket Collaboration organization – a multifunctional team aligned around industry and dealer needs, focused on delivering customer-centric solutions and driving aftermarket services growth throughout Caterpillar’s global network.

What you will do:

• Serve as the primary business and system support contact for dealers using the Parts Inventory Collaboration (PIC) platform
• Deliver monthly inventory performance analysis packs and provide actionable insights to support dealer inventory reviews
• Learn and apply advanced data analysis techniques and inventory management logic
• Lead or support projects such as: Identifying root causes of service loss
• Explaining inventory growth
• Evaluating alternative stocking policies
• Quantifying business impacts of changes in dealer stocking behavior
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders across divisions
• Leverage SAS, Power BI, and other analytical tools to extract insights and drive improvements

Skills You Will Have

• Analytical Thinking: Ability to interpret data and turn insights into actionable recommendations.
• Attention to Detail: Deliver accurate, high-quality work with precision.
• Collaboration: Work effectively with diverse teams to achieve shared goals.
• Communication: Convey ideas clearly and listen actively to ensure understanding.

What will put you forward:

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Supply Chain, Business Analytics, Engineering, or a related field)
• 3–5 years of relevant professional experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities fluent in English, French is a plus
• A customer-focused mindset and the ability to work cross-functionally
• Proficiency in Snowflake, SQL, SAS, Excel, or other data analytics tools
• Understanding of Supply Chain and Inventory Management principles

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• The ideal candidate will be skilled at building a strong network across a complex, global matrix to ensure effective communication of key business initiatives.

What You Will Do:

• Strategy Communications – Collaborate with division leadership to create communications plans and deliverables that are aligned to the enterprise, segment and division strategy and related initiatives:
• Develop and implement an annual internal and external communications strategy supporting the business
• Consult with senior leaders, managers and employees on messaging using the power of words, images, sounds and multi-media
• Advise on communication formats to ensure clarity and accuracy of messaging
• Own internal employee communications including strategy, channels, tools and messaging
• Partner with division leaders to drive and deploy change management communications, ensuring employees and stakeholders are informed, engaged, and aligned throughout key transformation initiatives
• Executive Communications – Serve as a strategic communications advisor to the division’s senior vice president
• Develop and implement a communications strategy to establish the senior vice president’s voice to their employees and to promote the division across the enterprise
• Create effective communication strategies to be used across a variety of audiences including employees, dealers and external audiences
• Contributes to the overall strategic business goals and plans of the division
• Deliverables to Include – Communications strategies and plans; key message development; presentations for internal and external audiences; video scripts; internal articles; social media content

What You Have

• Strategic Thinking and Planning: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization. Knowledge of effective communications planning techniques and ability to contribute to strategic planning in support of the overall business plan.
• Communicating Complex Concepts: The ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
• Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
• Interpersonal Relationships: The ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
• Effective Presentations: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques; Defines and organizes the content and flow of a multi-media, multi-speaker presentation; Prepares complex presentations to large or critical technical and business audiences; Coaches others in all aspects of preparing and giving a formal presentation.
• Managing Multiple Priorities: Ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
• Copywriting and Editing: Able to effectively write, review and edit texts and documents.

What will Put you Ahead:

• Experience delivering strategies and communications that effectively support change initiatives and alignment to organizational/business goals
• Experience as a strategic communications advisor to C-level executives including writing communications and developing presentations
• A proven ability to thrive within a complex, matrixed environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree or Higher in Marketing, Communications, Journalism or related field
• Ability to create and tell stories through multiple visual mediums (graphic design, video, etc.)

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Role Definition:

• Manages a marketing function for specific market segment or product group.

What You Will Do:

• Overseeing research of multiple requests from business development leaders across the country.
• Developing, recommending and implementing market research plans for key products and services; collaborating on brand positioning, databases and direct response.
• Developing strategic plans for expansion of existing brands and development of new products or services; coordinating the implementation of plans.
• Presenting overall marketing plans and strategic direction for region to senior management for funding approval and support.

What You Have (Basic Skills Required):

• 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:

• 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.
• Global Perspective: Knowledge of issues, opportunities, and challenges for conducting business in the international marketplace; ability to apply global perspectives appropriately in a wide range of situations.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Conducts business with one or two other countries.
• Follows policies and procedures governing business activities with another country.
• Obtains information regarding operational issues of other countries when making business decisions.
• Assesses key legal, regulatory, and financial issues specific to a particular country.
• Recognizes behaviors that promote or stunt effective relationships in that country; acts accordingly.
• Creativity: Knowledge of the approaches, tools, and techniques for promoting creative, original thinking and ability to apply it to a variety of business situations.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Maintains balance between innovation and pragmatism.
• Challenges accepted ways of operating.
• Monitors innovations in field and explores usefulness in own function.
• Encourages, solicits, and rewards imaginative ideas.
• Supports experimentation and accepts occasional setbacks or failures.
• Finds new ways to approach problems.
• 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.
• Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Develops basic persuasive arguments.
• Discusses organizational culture around providing input on decisions.
• Uses active listening skills and probing techniques to surface opportunities to influence.
• Identifies who the decision makers are and how they receive information.
• Regularly presents ideas or suggestions to associates in persuasive terms.
• 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.
• Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.

Level Working Knowledge:

• Implements the group's go-to-market strategy.
• Raises awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships.
• Explains elements of the strategy to others and encourages questions.
• Monitors marketplace trends, opportunities, and vulnerabilities; reports findings.
• Makes sound recommendations when faced with complex and contradictory alternatives.
• Vendor/Supplier Management: Knowledge of external provider management processes and ability to effectively manage the business relationship with external providers (e.g. vendors, service providers, contractors, consultants and suppliers).

Level Extensive Experience:

• Manages actual and perceived conflict of interest issues.
• Monitors and communicates vendor effectiveness, reliability and performance.
• Influences existing and new vendor relationships and the approved vendor list.
• Interprets documents detailing service provisions and financial arrangements.
• Explains case studies of effective and ineffective partnering relationships and lessons learned.
• Advises others on the issues and considerations for working with new vendors, suppliers or partners.