Senior Product Support Manager

Career Area:

Product Support

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.

Cat Technology collaborates with partners across the Caterpillar enterprise to advance technologies including autonomy and automation, which helps enhance site safety, productivity and efficiency across customer operations worldwide. Cat Technology also owns enterprise-wide initiatives in innovation, research and development, manufacturing automation and advanced materials, ensuring Caterpillar continues to lead the industry in technological excellence and engineering innovation.

Caterpillar's Cat Technology group is searching for a Senior Product Support Manager (Regional Services) to lead and manage Construction Industries (CI) deployment and field support teams for technology products. The role will be a leader within the CI technology support team and will focus on collaborating, planning, and supporting key customer account teams, marketing field teams and dealers for technology onboarding and execution. The position is suited for people that are looking for opportunities for increased leadership, global team collaboration, and exposure to all of Caterpillar's machine product groups and service parts management teams.

What You Will Do:

• Ensure service excellence through strong customer focus, data‑driven decision making, and effective leadership of field service teams
• Establishing effective linkages, partnerships, and best practices with business partners and internal functions.
• Developing and analyzing data and information to identify and prioritize opportunities for improving performance and customer experience during customer onboarding (deployment and training) for construction technology.
• Managing the quality feedback loops to ensure lessons learned on quality defects are communicated back through the primary support channels.

What you will have:

• Education Requirement: Bachelor's Degree in an accredited Engineering, Marketing, or equivalent focused curriculum.
• 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.
• Service Excellence: Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.
• 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.
• Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
• 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.
• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Consideration for top candidates:

• Experience in customer service leadership capacity will also be accepted in lieu of a degree.
• 6 Sigma Green Belt experience
• Product/customer support, quality, or aftermarket related experience
• Experience with telematics, site grading technologies, site network capabilities, site safety systems

Additional Details:

• This position requires the candidate to work full-time at the Mossville, IL, Tucson, AZ or Clayton, NC office
• Relocation assistance is available for this position
• Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.
• This position will require up to 30% domestic and international travel

Summary Pay Range:

$147,760.00 - $221,640.00

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

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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