Senior Manager Product Support

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Irving, TX +1

Senior Manager Product Support for Electric Power at Caterpillar, responsible for leading product support strategy and execution, ensuring customer experience, product reliability, and lifecycle performance. The role involves advanced technical expertise, resolving complex issues, establishing service level standards, and driving product improvement. It requires strong cross-functional relationships, dealer performance influence, and team development, leveraging product knowledge and data insights to enhance serviceability and maintenance strategies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Determining service level standards for customer service requests for product lines.
  2. Answering technical questions for complex issues and procedures or to handle technical problems with customers' products.
  3. Prioritize and implement product improvements related to customer issues and manage cost impact.
  4. Implementing service strategies for a given product to improve its repairability and maintenance.
  5. Developing in-depth knowledge of organizational products and programs, as well as capabilities of team members within the department.

Skills

Required

  • Customer Focus
  • Service Excellence
  • Effective Communications
  • Relationship Management

Nice to have

  • Prior Product Support/Technical Rep experience
  • Experience managing complex site systems and extensive knowledge of the risks and high costs associated with downtime
  • Prior experience partnering with dealers and helping drive dealer execution and product performance, managing customer escalations, and optimizing uptime/TCO outcomes.

What the JD emphasized

  • complex issues
  • customer issues
  • complex site systems
  • high costs associated with downtime
  • customer escalations
  • optimizing uptime