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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.

The Senior Manager, Talent Management is a highly visible and strategic role leading enterprise talent processes. This role is responsible for envisioning implementing and managing an enterprise-wide technology enabled performance management process enabling leaders and employees to contribute at their highest level of performance and continuously increase performance standards.  This includes being responsible for process excellence, capability building solutions to support employees and leaders in delivering strong performance and the effective application of technology to enable operational excellence. 

This role is also responsible for providing leadership for welcome sessions for U.S. support and management new hires to the organization, ensuring a best-in-class experience that accelerates the new employee transition and welcomes new hires to share their ideas and perspectives.  This role will collaborate with peers to provide support on other key talent management processes such as strategic workforce planning, executive talent reviews and talent and succession planning.  The role requires strong understanding of methods for leveraging technology to ensure maximum value of talent management processes for the business.  The role also requires exceptional collaboration, creative problem solving, agility, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to explore and deploy new solutions while simultaneously delivering and continuously improving existing solutions with operational excellence.

What You Will Do: 

• Lead the technology enabled performance management process throughout the enterprise, ensuring operational excellence at each stage· 
• Enable employees to effectively contribute to the enterprise strategy by leading and continuously improving Enterprise-wide talent processes: seeking internal feedback and external best practices, ensuring the HR community is aware of the why, when and how of each step etc. 
• Ensure best in class welcome session experience for new hires, in partnership with multiple Centers of Excellence, by using strong attention to detail and exceptionally high standards of excellence. 
• Collaborate with colleagues to support wide variety of high-priority talent management solutions and initiatives including but not limited to job architecture, strategic workforce planning, career planning, and development   
• Serve as a thought leader and strategic talent advisor to the business; providing insights and creative solutions to a variety of complex talent challenges based on industry’s best practices that align with the Enterprise strategy 
• Maximize value of talent management processes/solutions to the business by facilitating best-in-class change management techniques 

What You Have: 

• Required: Deep experience in a variety of talent management processes including, performance management, strategic workforce planning, talent planning and career planning and development. Demonstrated successful experience in leading talent management efforts in a global organization. 
• Education: A degree or equivalent is strongly desired.  
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Quickly and accurately analyzes situations and reaches productive decisions based on informed judgment. Considers short-term and long-term value as well as potential unintended consequences.  Seeks additional perspective, in a timely manner, to ensure they fully understand the picture 
• Influencing: Listens and asks questions to ensure understanding of all critical perspectives and concerns before jumping to solutions or working to influence.  Clearly demonstrates understanding of concerns from other perspectives, identifies and articulates best fit solutions for all parties. Uses change management successfully as the key method for influencing others. 
• Lead and Deliver Multiple Priorities: ability to lead and deliver multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.  Ability to shift or focus on certain priorities as business needs may change. 
• Problem Solving: Anticipates and recognizes organizational, operational or process problems. Is transparent when a problem is identified and uses a variety of appropriate techniques to solve the challenge, not hesitating to engage others if/as needed. 
• Data Gathering and Reporting: Highly effective in gathering, combining and reporting data quickly; ability to quickly identify data outliers and trends and identify insights and potential recommendations considering not only the data, but also additional business context and additional factors.
• Talent Management: Deep understanding of variety of talent management solutions and techniques to close talent gaps in short and long-term.  

Additional Details: 

• This position will be located in Irving, TX 
• This is a fully onsite role Monday to Friday in office. 
• To support a global business, there may be a requirement to travel up to 10%. 
• Domestic Relocation assistance is available for this role 
• Sponsorship is NOT available 

What You Will Get:

• Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
• Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance.  We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus. Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays.
• All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

About Caterpillar –

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

Final details:

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Summary Pay Range:

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

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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