Senior Go-to-Market Project Manager – Battery Electric Products - Mossville, Illinois

Senior Go-to-Market Project Manager – Battery Electric Products

Job Title & - Project/Program Manager (Non-IT) 5

Location: Mossville, Illinois – 5 days - On-Site

Duration: 24 months

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

• Work with Engineering, Tax, Legal, Compliance, Business Resources, Supply Chain, Commercial, Digital to develop go-to-market processes to ensure battery electric products can go be introduced to specific countries.
• This includes setting up recycling suppliers with our purchasing team, working with regulatory compliance team to ensure there commercial regulations for Lithium Ion batteries are met for the targeted global territory.
• Developing the supply chain process that includes title transfers, import/export considerations to enable Cat to continue owning batteries and chargers within the targeted territory
• Ability to manage projects to time, schedule and budget with knowledge in project management and project management tools
• The role will primarily support Mining (RI), Rail and Electric Power (EPD)
• Develop the go-to-market processes required for battery and charging services
• Immediate team is located in Mossville and the wider team is located in Peterborough, UK

Why this Role?

This role exposes the person to many different areas of client.  It is a cross-functional role in a division that is radically changing the way we do things at client.  We are developing new processes to get us out into the marketplace faster and challenging traditional processes.  The role is in a very dynamic team that pivots quickly to respond to marketplace needs. This role will help a person to understand end-to-end how client functions in the wider marketplace.

Typical task breakdown:

• Research and scope out the needs to go-to-market for a specific battery electric product or charger.
• Facilitate and document meetings to develop the processes and actions required to set up the go-to-market transaction
• Work through the actions identified for themselves and program/project manage cross functional counterparts in their actions required.
• Report regularly to leadership on progress, gaps, risks and roadblocks encountered. Provide ideas on potential resolutions to any issues
• Escalate any issues that may incur
• Put into place the processes with defined roles and responsibilities and set a start date to begin.
• Identify any continuous improvement opportunities or next phases that need to be started.

Interaction with team:

• Some interaction with immediate and wider divisional team.  Primarily cross functional interaction with technical and non-technical teams

Team Structure

• Project Leads with assigned projects.

Work environment:

• International team – working across various time zones
• Collaborative environment
• Dynamic – there are frequent changes due to the nature of the industry.  Must react quickly to any changes identified or pivot if something does not work
• Very positive and engage cross functional teams

Education & Experience Required:

• Years of experience: 10 + years
• Degree requirement: Bachelors
• Open to Associates with 12+ years’ experience
• Open to master’s with 8+ years’ experience
• Do you accept internships as job experience: Yes
• Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role:

Top 3 Skills

Critical Thinking

Problem Solving

Learning and adapting

Additional Technical Skills

• Process Mapping
• Ability to understand process flows
• Project and program management
• Ability to transfer market and customer requirements to actionable needs to cross-functional teams
• Cost Evaluation and Commercial Terms
• Must have: I need a person who is experienced in Office 365 – Windows, Excel, etc.  Like to have: Experience with Microsoft Project, Copilot

Desired: Business Acumen

Soft Skills

• Team and meeting facilitation skills
• Strong Communication skills
• Easily adapts to change and willing to rework because of change
• Ability to collaborate closely with cross-functional counterparts that are both technical and non-technical
• Strategic and fast learner
• Intellectual curiosity