Marketing & Sales Operations Representative

**Career Area**:
Sales

**Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.**

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

**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.**

As a Market & Sales Operations Representative (MSOR), you are primarily responsible and accountable to drive services growth in partnership with our dealers with a focus on dealer marketing & sales excellence, digital excellence and to accelerate e-commerce adoption. This position will be based in Perth, Australia.

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- Advising dealers on marketing, sales and customer-related strategies, systems and processes
- Coaching dealers in developing increased human performance capability such as identifying performance gap solutions
- Drive strategic growth initiatives with District Manager to align with internal partners and dealers
- Counsel dealers on strategy development and lead services growth plan governance
- Aligning strategies of the dealer with Caterpillar Enterprise Strategy
- Advising on existing and potential customer experience issues and improvement measures such as recommending ways to enhance market coverage and customer experience through training, technology enabled solutions, etc
- Consulting with dealers on marketing and sales strategy planning including developing strategies and plans to improve dealer effectiveness and identifying potential opportunities for increasing sales
- Consulting with dealers on process improvement methods and assisting with process evaluation
- Assisting dealers in business planning and on effectiveness of meeting expected business results

As a dealer facing representative, you will collaborate with dealers to build capability, drive process improvement, and execute Marketing and Sales Operations related strategies. You will connect data to identify opportunities and develop solutions which support dealers in meeting customer needs.

**Key Skills Required**:

- **Customer Focus**:Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
- ** Decision Making and Critical Thinking**: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- ** Negotiating**:Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.
- ** Relationship Management**:Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
- ** Project Management**:Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
- ** Value Selling**:Knowledge of the principles and practices for selling products, technology and services; ability to provide overall product/service 'value' and to differentiate support offerings that address clearly understood customer needs.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:

- Communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills
- Change management and Project management and collaboration skills
- Analytical skills to interpret and understand data to drive actions
- Ability to work independently and influence others in a variety of work environments to build trust.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Marketing or related field is preferred
- Previous work experience in sales, product support, market development and eCommerce would be beneficial
- Must be willing to travel up to 30% (when no