Lead Business Intelligence Analyst

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.

About Power & Energy Procurement

Caterpillar’s Power & Energy Procurement organization plays a critical role in supporting all divisions within Power & Energy. Our work is geared towards our pistons of Predictable Supply Excellence, Optimized Total Cost of Ownership, Supplier Relationship Management and Lifecycle Sourcing Strategy. We continue to develop suppliers who competitively deliver operational excellence, enabling our customers to build a better world. With a strong focus on data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency, Power & Energy Procurement leverages advanced tools and processes to connect the physical and digital supply chain, enabling business units to deliver high-performance solutions that meet evolving customers and business needs.

Role Definition

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Business Intelligence Analyst as part of the Power & Energy Cost COE team within Procurement! This position will solve challenging business visualization problems through creativity and driving structure; it offers both autonomy and a chance to make an immediate impact.

You will have the opportunity to design and build quantitative methods such as business simulations, data mining, modeling, and advanced statistical techniques to drive strategic cost reduction efforts. The Lead Business Intelligence Analyst contributes to this mission by acting as the leader of analytics project teams tasked with solving problems of medium to high complexity.

What You Will Do:

• Develop quantitative approaches, such as business simulations, data mining, modeling, and advanced statistical analysis, to support strategic cost reduction initiatives, including:

  • Inventory, material, and new product introduction costs, along with trend analysis.

  • Suppliers spend and product attributes

  • Commodity and index-based inflationary costs

  • Freight and logistics costs

  • Product demand and variability levels

• Coach and mentor junior scientists in developing, validating, and applying statistical models, as well as implementing digital solutions

• Explore and apply new methods and digital technologies to enhance customer outcomes

What You Will Have:

Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Level Extensive Experience:

• Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.

• Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.

• Productively balances speed and accuracy.

• Employs techniques for motivating personnel to meet or exceed accuracy goals.

• Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.

• Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.

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.

Business Data Analysis: Knowledge of business data analysis; ability to collect, identify, analyze, and interpret business data using various kinds of techniques to meet business needs and requirements.

Level Expert:

• Leads discussions and answers complex questions regarding business data analysis software.

• Defines processes and methods for integrating global models and component reusability.