Job Description
About the Opportunity
Job Title: Grade Control Portfolio Manager
Preferred Location: Westminster, Dayton, Peoria
Division: CTCT
Job Summary
As a Portfolio Manager within Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT), you will have a passion for ensuring that grade control customers are supported in all aspects of the product life cycle. You will work with CTCT, Caterpillar, and Trimble team members to capture and convey the business problems that need to be solved and the value that will result from their delivery. The Portfolio Manager will lead collaboration between Caterpillar and Trimble stakeholders to identify and document common needs to enable CTCT Product teams and enabling organizations to develop tiered solutions that are radically easy to use and aligned with the CTCT Board approved Multi Generation Product Plan (MGPP).
Responsibilities
- Own the relationship between CTCT and Caterpillar and Trimble and maintain good relationships with key stakeholders.
- Interpret and document the product requests from Caterpillar and Trimble stakeholders along with their respective ranking order.
- Work with the Caterpillar, Trimble, and CTCT teams, apply your knowledge of the grade control market and its competitive landscape to provide problem statements, objectives, hypotheses, value scores, and expected outcomes to the CTCT Product Teams.
- Identify and document the common unmet needs of both the Trimble business areas and the Caterpillar product groups to enable solutions that will be as successful as possible with the growing portfolio of CTCT products over their lifecycle.
- Effectively advocate for easy to use, tiered solutions that are built on the platform, upgradeable, interoperable and extensible.
About You
What Skills & Experience You Will Bring
- 5+ years of product development, product management, enterprise account management, or other relevant technology leadership experience
- Machine control, construction, automotive, or related industry experience
- Knowledge of software and/or hardware product development processes
- Experience with cloud computing and site connectivity infrastructure
- Ability to communicate the product vision and strategy to stakeholders, both internally and externally
Eligibility
- This position will require up to 15% travel
Benefits
- Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans.
- Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
About Company
About Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)
Our team efficiently and effectively develops machine control products that use site design information combined with positioning technology and deep domain knowledge to semi-automatically control machines. These products are used in a range of applications to enable a machine operator to perform their work safely, accurately, efficiently, sustainably, and effectively using sophisticated yet intuitive user-centric technology.