Marketing & Sales Support Manager [Japan]

 

Career Area:

Marketing / Sales / Product Support

Job Description:

YOUR WORK SHAPES THE WORLD

Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that, because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes, and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join Us

Job Duties / Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead a wide range of international marketing teams accountable for executing NPI activities in terms of customer requirement and deliverables of current and future product development.

• Provide leadership and vision to multi-functional team in market research, identifying customer requirements, and translating them into functional requirements for new product introduction.

• Lead product requirement discussions and CCR development with engineering team.

• Manage product performance and features communications and team consensus in a timely and accurate manner through NPI phases.

• Create comprehensive NPIR materials to support Go-To-Market and sales training.

• Hold pricing workshop with Global Pricing Team and Business Resources team for new product introduction.

• Manage Product Activity Notice (PAN) releasing and associated development activities with marketing, engineering, facility and regional product teams. Look for ways to simplify PAN communication and improve PAN execution efficiency.

• Create product branding and nomenclature request and obtain official approval in time for NPI activities.

• Organize joint meetings with marketing team on unmet customer needs (UCNs) and one-time-only requests, reveal customer applications and market trend for future product development

• Manage and develop marketing technology engineers. The position is responsible for all personnel issues and performance evaluation of subordinates. This position will have remote team members to report, need to manage the different cultural with a wide international thinking and experience.

• This position requires moderate travel around 25%
  

Required Skills / Experience:

• Fluent English language communicator

• Strong interpersonal / project management skills

• Good product knowledge

• 10-15 years associated working experience proofing the above

Other Desired capabilities :

• Supervisory experience

Caterpillar is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status ; however, as a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of Singapore which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers .

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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