Analytics Manager

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

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.

Your Work Shapes the World

Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure.  Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs.  Join us.

Job Summary:

Support Caterpillar's Procurement and Supply Chain functions by managing the development, implementation and support of business analytics. This includes the creation and maintenance of critical data tables and visualizations as well as executing analyses and reporting results to drive data-driven business decisions.

Caterpillar’s Strategic Procurement & Planning Division is looking to fill a key Analytics Manager position. As part of the Business Insights team, this role will deliver analytics data and tools to business users, while helping guide and develop junior analysts' work.

What You Will Do:

• Directing data gathering, data mining, and data processing processes; creating appropriate data models.

• Leading to define requirements and scope of data analyses, presenting and reporting possible business insights to management using data visualization technologies.

• Assessing the scope and resources required of various analytics projects and working with manager to define necessary resources.

• Managing client relations to ensure that project expectations are managed and fulfilled.

• Monitoring and communicating key performance metrics and operational challenges.

Education Requirement:

Bachelor’s degree (4 years)

What Skills You Will Have:

Analytical Thinking:

• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.

• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.

• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.

• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks and chances for success before recommending a course of action.

• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.

• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.

Query and Database Access Tools:

• Elaborates on the strengths and weaknesses of diverse database access tools.

• Takes a leadership role in identifying new database access tools and techniques.

• Monitors industry and vendor experiences; assesses the impact on productivity and quality.

• Leads in updating and revising key technical standards for query and database access tools.

• Helps others learn to make the best use of multiple query tools and platforms.

• Provides insight into using query and access tools across multiple platforms.

Programming Languages:

• Provides insight into the development of complex, cross-functional program applications.

• Consults on the optimal use and choice of a programming platform for a given application.

• Predicts industry trends and market experiences relevant to programming languages.

• Establishes standards, policies and guidelines for advanced programming languages.

• Compares and contrasts the advantages and drawbacks of different programming languages.

Accuracy and Attention to Detail:

• Evaluates manual and electronic tools and techniques for enhancing accuracy.

• Designs techniques for measuring the cost and impact of errors.

• Discusses the value and associated costs of formal walkthroughs.

• Monitors the industry for new tools and techniques in assuring accuracy.

• Coaches others in methods of identifying and correcting errors, oversights and omissions.

• Supports and communicates the organization's quality management process.

Organizational Leadership:

• Promotes efficacy through monitoring, coaching & motivating subordinates, intervention, etc.

• Translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives.

• Uses emotional contagion to affect the mood of group members, tone of group and group processes.

• Uses a normative decision model (with leadership styles and situational variables) to select style.

• Initiates structure: role clarification, setting standards, holding subordinates accountable, etc.

Emerging Technologies:

• Evaluates best practices of emerging information technologies to learn and understand principles and applications.

• Evaluates business accuracy and productivity levels derived from information technology influences.

• Guides junior-level staff on the effective implementation of new information technologies within the organization.

• Determines long-term, strategic requirements for the design of information technologies.

• Monitors information technology users to ensure compliance with organizational policies.

• Resolves all technical and administrative problems that occur in the design, application and evaluation of information technology.

Additional Information

The location for this position is Mossville, IL.

Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.

This position will require less than 10% travel.

What You Will Get:

Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world. Here you earn more than just wage, because we value your performance, we offer a total rewards package that provides:

• Competitive Base Salary
• Annual incentive bonus plan*
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
• 401k savings plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Life Insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy Lifestyle Programs
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (Ex. Accident, Identity Theft Protection)

*Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines.

Final details

Please frequently check the email associated with your application, including the junk/spam folder, as this is the primary correspondence method. If you wish to know the status of your application – please use the candidate log-in on our career website as it will reflect any updates to your status.

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 .

For more information, visit caterpillar.com. To connect with us on social media, visit caterpillar.com/social-media

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Summary Pay Range:

$144,960.00 - $235,440.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar. 

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of 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

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

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:

February 21, 2025 - March 7, 2025

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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