NPI Team Leader – Electric Power Solutions

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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

Join our Electric Power division as an NPI Team Leader, where you’ll drive cross-functional product development initiatives from concept to launch. In this role, you’ll lead high-impact projects that align with business strategy, manage timelines and budgets, and influence innovation across multiple teams. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders, mentor project members, and ensure successful execution of new product introductions. This is a high-visibility opportunity to shape the future of our product portfolio.

What You Will Do:

• Lead large-scale, cross-functional NPI projects to ensure timely delivery, budget adherence, and alignment with business and product strategy.

• Develop and maintain detailed project management plans, including timelines, resource allocations, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Collaborate with internal partners—including engineering, marketing, supply chain, and finance—to define project scope and ensure alignment with enterprise priorities.

• Assemble and present business cases for proposed product initiatives, including ROI analysis and risk assessment.

• Facilitate the prioritization of NPI initiatives based on strategic impact and resource availability.

• Build relationships with external partners, such as industry associations and key customers, to ensure voice-of-customer is represented in product development.

• Identify training needs and support development opportunities for project team members, mentor junior staff as appropriate.

• Monitor and report on key performance indicators such as customer satisfaction, cost savings, timeliness, and process quality.

• Drive continuous improvement by identifying bottlenecks, analyzing performance data, and recommending corrective actions across the NPI process.

• Support internal and external marketing of NPI projects by articulating value propositions, technical differentiators, and customer benefits.

• Engage stakeholders across multiple sites and functional teams to align resources, address issues, and maintain momentum throughout the product development cycle.

Degree Requirement

Degree or equivalent experience desired

What You Will Have:

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Working knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.

• Contributes to short-term operational plans.

• Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.

• Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.

• Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.

• Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.

Products and Services: Working knowledge of major products and services and product and service groups; ability to apply knowledge of product and service appropriately to diverse situations.

• Obtains information about product and service linkages with other products and services elsewhere in organization.

• Researches the target market and how the product and services are sold and delivered.

• Explains current status, delivery alternatives and announced updates to products and services.

• Summarizes