Category Manager

Salary Grade: £66,000 + depending on experience

Location: Peterborough

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus 8 Bank Holidays
• Up to 18% Bonus
• Car Allowance – £600 pm
• Contributory pension scheme – Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 10%
• Contributory share scheme – Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution
• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase
• Employee Referral Program

About IPSD: Caterpillar’s Industrial Power Systems Division (IPSD) designs, tests and manufactures 0.5 to 18L Cat® and Perkins engines that power over 5000 applications including Marine, Petroleum, Industrial Applications, Electric Generators, and Locomotives. Caterpillar’s company strategy includes sustainability as one of four focus areas and IPSD is engaged and actively preparing green energy solutions for the future.

Job Summary: A fantastic opportunity has become available for a Category Management Project Lead to join our Sales, Marketing, Servicing & Parts (SMSP) Aftermarket team. As the Category Management Project Lead you will be responsible for ownership of multiple categories of parts where you will identify, evaluate, and develop initiatives that drive sales growth objectives and profitability. Some of the key areas include Products, Price, Promotion and Place and ensuring our network has sufficient sales training and support for successful implementation. Leading research of growth and expansion opportunities, project leadership and provide expertise in the development and implementation for the lifecycle of our products and services.

Additional Info: Travel: 10% global. This position requires working onsite five days a week.

What You Will Do:

• Be an extension of the sales team to help grow category sales.
• Analyzing the business objective and opportunities to develop and align the marketing strategies.
• Conducting market/competitive research to identify new opportunities and industry trends.
• Establishing metrics to monitor and review the effectiveness of existing marketing strategies; suggesting necessary interventions for improvement.
• Maintaining effective internal communications in the marketing department to discuss and align the marketing strategy to the changing organizational scenarios.

What You Have:

• Customer Focus – Level Extensive Experience: Facilitates creation of the 'right' products and services to resolve customer business issues. Fosters strong customer relationships via delivery on commitments, open communication, and ongoing feedback/improvement. Advises others on creating customer focused environments in various scenarios. Anticipates customer needs, focusing efforts to proactively meet needs and exceed customer expectations.
• Collaborating – Level Extensive Experience: Demonstrates experience engendering collaborative processes that lead to problem solving and the achievement of business goals. Establishes shared goals to foster collaboration. Implements methods for people to come together on the fly to make decisions, solve problems, and develop products/services.
• Creativity – Level Extensive Experience: Maintains balance between innovation and pragmatism. Challenges accepted ways of operating. Encourages, solicits, and rewards imaginative ideas. Finds new ways to approach problems.
• Effective Communications – Level Extensive Experience: 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.
• Promotion and Marketing Communications – Level Extensive Experience: Compares and contrasts the benefits and drawbacks of different types of marketing communication techniques. Delivers various promotional and marketing communications that engage the target audience, respond to their questions and concerns and produce specific outcomes and impact. Develops a clear and complete understanding of needs and problems through careful listening, probing, reflecting, and summarizing. Develops a marketing communication strategy that focuses on promoting the distinctive value proposition of the product or service being offered.

What You Will Get: We look forward to welcoming the successful candidate to our dynamic, diverse and friendly team. We have a culture of openness, autonomy, support, personal development as well as a continuous drive for improvement. This role provides exposure to global teams, offering strong development opportunities within Caterpillar’s SMSP function.

About Caterpillar: Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

NB: The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined. Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.