Career Area:Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:Role DefinitionWe have an exciting opportunity for a
Lead Business Intelligence Analyst as part of the Power & Energy Cost COE team within Procurement! This position will solve challenging business visualization problems through creativity and driving structure; it offers both autonomy and a chance to make an immediate impact.
You will have the opportunity to design and build quantitative methods such as business simulations, data mining, modeling, and advanced statistical techniques to drive strategic cost reduction efforts. The Lead Business Intelligence Analyst contributes to this mission by acting as the leader of analytics project teams tasked with solving problems of medium to high complexity.
What You Will Do:- Develop quantitative approaches, such as business simulations, data mining, modeling, and advanced statistical analysis, to support strategic cost reduction initiatives, including:
- Inventory, material, and new product introduction costs, along with trend analysis.
- Suppliers spend and product attributes
- Commodity and index-based inflationary costs
- Freight and logistics costs
- Product demand and variability levels
- Coach and mentor junior scientists in developing, validating, and applying statistical models, as well as implementing digital solutions
- Explore and apply new methods and digital technologies to enhance customer outcomes
What You Will Have:Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.
- Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.
- Productively balances speed and accuracy.
- Employs techniques for motivating personnel to meet or exceed accuracy goals.
- Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.
- Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
- 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.
- Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
Business Data Analysis: Knowledge of business data analysis; ability to collect, identify, analyze, and interpret business data using various kinds of techniques to meet business needs and requirements.
Level Expert:
- Leads discussions and answers complex questions regarding business data analysis software.
- Defines processes and methods for integrating global models and component reusability.
- Advocates better communication of data requirements in business data analysis processes to increase the efficiency of data analysis.
- Consults on modeling, tools, techniques, strategies, and the use of reusable information.
- Establishes working processes for business data analysis and supervises team progress.
- Monitors industry and vendor trends and directions of business data analysis technologies.
Business Assessment: Knowledge of the activities, tasks, practices, and deliverables for assessing and documenting business opportunities; ability to assess the benefits, risks, and success factors of potential applications.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Conducts, documents and communicates basic business assessment reviews and walkthroughs.
- Defines success factors for potential applications or systems.
- Evaluates the processes and tools for risk assessment and benefits analysis.
- Plays an active or leadership role in business assessment processes and assists in the preparation of deliverables.
- Utilizes tools, techniques, and practices for identifying and validating business opportunities.
- Establishes business assessment procedures for multiple or critical applications.
Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Level Extensive Experience:
- Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms.
- Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage.
- Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases.
- Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation.
- Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews.
- Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.
What Sets You Apart:- Project management portfolio experience from effective requirements gathering, risk management through visualizing insights
- Working knowledge of two or more programming languages
- Experience with data automation
- Ability to build sound networks within the technical community to enable collaboration on technical solutions, obtain resources and cooperation needed, and removal of roadblocks ensuring the success of activities.
- Ability to work with a diverse group of employees and customers.
- Experience or working knowledge with Snowflake platform.
Summary Pay Range:$128,470.00 - $192,710.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
- Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
- 401(k) savings plans*
- Health Savings Account (HSA)*
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
- Health Lifestyle Programs*
- Employee Assistance Program*
- Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
- Career Development*
- Incentive bonus*
- Disability benefits
- Life Insurance
- Parental leave
- Adoption benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:June 1, 2026 - June 7, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
