Work Tool Specialist

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When you join Caterpillar yourejoining 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 dontjust 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.

We are looking for a Work Tool Specialist join our Product Services & Technology team working within one of the Constructions Industries newly formed divisions Customer Solutions Growth Regions.

At Caterpillar were committed to our customers who build a better more sustainable world with our products services and solutions. We understand and show the value of why they should choose us. Were exploring new ideas and opportunities innovating to discover the breakthroughs necessary for tomorrows growth. Through it all we are one team creating and delivering world-class products services and solutions superior to the competition. Learn more about the Caterpillar Experience.

About Customer Solutions Growth Regions Division

This team alongside dealers engages closely with customers to create customize and adapt solutions to meet their needs by leveraging the extensive range of offerings available today across products and services digital and technology rental and used and financing.

The division is regionally focused on Africa the Middle East Eurasia Asia (excluding Japan) and Latin America (LATAM) and organized into three functional areas: Customer Facing Customer Solutions and Business Enablers.

This role is part of the Customer Solutions team focused on designing and delivering solutions in the areas of product services and technology. The role will:

• Support Field Teams Dealers & Customer with deep Product and Services expertise.

• Focus Product Services & Technology development on solving customer problems at the segment and site level.

• Drive proactive Technology Adoption and Product & Services health management leveraging data insights from connected field population.

Role Definition: Supports go-to-market initiatives and sales execution as a subject matter expert of assigned portfolio of products and services with a strong emphasis on hydraulic excavator work tools and attachments (e.g. buckets quick couplers breakers/hammers thumbs grapples crushers/pulverizers rippers plate compactors) and their applications.

What You Will Do:

• Providing product application expertise delivering various types of product training including applied technology job efficiency and safety to customers product engineers and dealers sales personnel.

• Delivering targeted training and demonstrations on hydraulic excavator work tools and attachments including correct selection by application (earthmoving demolition material handling trenching) safe operation installation calibration and use of tool control systems and quick couplers.

• Conduct product performance studies assess customer job sites efficiency collecting product and customer requirements in order to capitalize opportunities for incremental sales to create business case for product improvement process and new product introduction program.

• Designing and executing performance comparisons across attachment categories (e.g. productivity cycle time fuel burn wear rates TCO) and consolidating findings into actionable recommendations for sales enablement and product improvement.

• Leading requirements capture for attachment functionality durability compatibility coupler standards and digital features feeding the product improvement and NPI pipeline.

• Manages the marketing technology tools/systems and works with key stakeholders to develop a marketing technology product roadmap to drive business growth.

• Building and maintaining attachment content within marketing technology systems ensuring accurate compatibility pricing and value messaging for excavator-tool pairings.

• Collaborating with other internal teams to get alignment on timelines understanding marketing goals and developing the marketing technology product roadmap.

• Coordinating with engineering product management dealer development and product support to align work tool portfolio plans regional regulatory/standards compliance and launch readiness.

• Overseeing Percent of Industry Sales (PINS) trends industry outlook demand fluctuation and basic customer requirements.

• Monitoring PINS and market share for key attachment categories competitive offerings regional application trends and fleet utilization to identify gaps upsell/cross-sell opportunities and portfolio expansion needs.

What You 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Value Selling: Knowledge of the principles and practices for selling products technology and services; ability to provide overall product/service value and to differentiate support offerings that address clearly understood customer needs.

Additional Information: To be reviewed

• Must be able to travel 40% internationally

• This work requires5 days onsite except business travel

About Caterpillar

Caterpillar Inc. is the worlds leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment off-highway diesel and natural gas engines industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For 100 years weve been helping customers build a better more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services backed by our global dealer network provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. Caterpillar does business on every continent principally operating through three primary segments Construction Industries Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.

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