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Peoria, Illinois, United States

Peoria, Illinois, United States

Peoria, Illinois Area

Accountable to enabling our business strategy and goals by identifying and executing on the right digital opportunities, creating significant value and a great digital experience for our customers, dealer and business partners. Responsible to collaborate closely with Caterpillar's senior leaders and business partners to identify and execute on our top priority opportunities to improve digital competitiveness, profitability and capabilities.

Peoria, Illinois Area

Accountable to support growth and development of Caterpillar's analytics services and solutions offerings in industrial markets by creating significant value and a great customer experience for our construction customers.Responsible to collaborate closely with Caterpillar's leaders and business partners to identify and execute on the top priority opportunities to improve competitiveness and profitability of our construction customers.

Peoria, Illinois Area

Accountable to grow and develop Caterpillar's organizational capabilities in analytics by generating significant business value with our business units by aligning analytics to enable our business strategies, customer experience and market competitiveness.Responsible to collaborate closely with Caterpillar's leaders and external partners to identify and executing on the top priority opportunities to accelerate achievement of our long term strategic goals, improve our customers experience and realize profitability improvements through data analytics. Key Accomplishments including leading Caterpillar's first startup challenge, evaluation and selection of analytics partners, strategic benchmarking and capability assessment of Caterpillar in IoT, development and implementation of value prioritization framework, refresh of Caterpillar's analytics strategy, development and implement of strategic analytics road-mapping process, Co-authored successful submission for IIA ANNY Award - Caterpillar wins 1st place.New skills and experiences gained in this role include 1. analytics strategy development 2. analytics road mapping 3. analytics value estimation 4. analytics governance and operations management 5. analytics partner evaluation and development 6. development of analytics ventures 7. industrial analytics market assessment

Peoria, Illinois Area

Accountable to deliver strategic recommendations to Executive Office on a diverse range of topics and report corporate metrics scorecard to CEO/Chairman.Responsible for conducting strategic projects for Caterpillar Executive Office (CEO, Group Presidents) to refresh and communicate Enterprise Strategy, facilitate strategy planning committee, evaluate future growth opportunities, identify megatrends and disruptive technologies, develop technology and analytics strategies, identify and model customer value chains, evaluate competitive threats and learn from adjacent industries and successful companies.Key Accomplishments include ongoing management of Enterprise Scorecard Process; customer value chain analysis of mining and construction industries; led multifunctional team to develop Enterprise analytics strategy; Developed process to predict industry cycles; Co facilitation of strategic planning committee to refresh Enterprise strategy; led study of Internet of Things and opportunity evaluation; led strategic analysis of global automotive companyNew skills and experiences gained in this role: 1. corporate strategy development and facilitation 2. value chain evaluation 3. market, competitor and company assessments 4. applying strategic tools and frameworks

Peoria, Illinois Area

Accountable to lead a team to develop industry specific intelligence capabilities to monitoring the external global business environment for Caterpillar's Construction Industries and Resources Industries Strategic Businesses.Global responsible for capturing primary and secondary customer insights, industry trend monitoring, and competitive analysis for end to end construction and mining businesses to service our extended mining products business (acquired from Bucyrus), aftermarket solutions, new product developments and growth strategies.Key accomplishments include: leading competitive analysis at MINExpo; delivering updates to dealers; Executive Office and BoD; conducted multi language global marketing research and analytics for several core product lines and aftermarket segments, broadening the use of external data and analytics in two of Caterpillar's strategic businesses.New skills and experiences gained in this role include 1. Industry domain expertise in Mining and Construction 2. Deeper knowledge of construction and mining competitors, 3. Mining and construction industry trends 4. Exposure to dealer network and Executive Officers

Peoria, Illinois Area

Accountable to lead a large functional team of research specialists tasked with growing and improving Caterpillar's global customer insights capabilities by delivering focused and sophisticated customer / market insights and recommendations to VPs, NPI managers, product managers, brand managers and chief engineers.Responsible for managing the global portfolio of multimode customer research projects and global customer loyalty program, end to end project management, research instrument and analysis design, global supplier contracting and collaboration , respondent targeting and sampling, recruitment, engagement and development of customer research and loyalty teams, applying advanced research and marketing analytics techniques, executive presentations.New skills and experiences gained in this role include 1. multi mode, multi language research design and execution 2. focus group and ideation facilitation 3. conjoint and discrete choice design and associated analytics 4. research and translation supplier contracting & development 5. management of supervisors and corporate function 6. pricing research 7. candidate interviewing, team development and coaching 8. new product introduction and 6 Sigma processes

Peoria, Illinois Area

Accountable to conduct primary applied research into development of advanced manufacturing processes for production of high value structures using advanced robotics, process control systems and fabrication technologies.Responsible to write collaborative research proposals for government funding, establish and deliver on technical research goals, supervise research engineers and manage research budget, develop supplier partnerships to develop advanced manufacturing technologies, capture and secure intellectual property.Key Accomplishments include: Research on FASIP program to control welding processes and distortion during fabrication. Collaborative Research on S.H.I.E.LD. Program for structural health monitoring using low power wireless sensor mesh networks.

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Cambridge, United Kingdom | Peoria, Il, Usa

Accountable to develop industrial client membership and add business value to our industrial member clients through research collaboration, and efficiency and quality improvements in manufacturing processes, automation and factory design.Responsible to deliver on time, to budget research, consultancy and implementation projects in the area of automated joining processes for off road vehicle, aerospace and automotive manufacturers, Development of industrial client membership base.Key Accomplishments include: Completion of client work for BAE systems, GE Locomotive, Airbus, Caterpillar, Alstom, Emerson Electric; Development of Collaborative Research Program Consortium, Evaluation and building of diverse EU consortium partnerships and grant winning proposal from European Commission Cordis for NOMAD Program.Key Skills and Experience gained: research grant and report authoring, computer aided manufacturing, robotic welding, vision systems, flexible manufacturing, shop floor optimization, discrete event simulation, dynamic robot simulation, factory automation and process costing.

Bachelor'S Degree, Pure Physics

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KEY LEARNINGS: Computer Aided Design, Software Engineering, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Systems Design and Integration.

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Unique learning opportunity for mining professionals, and is the premier training event within Caterpillar Global Mining. It affords.

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