Senior Portfolio Strategy Manager - Electric Power

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Job Description:

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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:

The Senior Portfolio Strategy Manager - Electric Power role will be focused on managing slotting and sourcing strategy for North America.

The Senior Portfolio Strategy Manager - Electric Power will coordinate slotting optimization, customer/account scheduling priority, capacity reservation requirements and capacity expansion considerations for North American network and internal facilities, and up to date AMER portfolio view allows real time determination of build slot availability for enclosures.

What you will do: 

• 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.

What you will 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.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Facilitates creation of the 'right' products and services to resolve c