.**Career Area**:Marketing / Sales / Product Support**:**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**:- Owns all aspects of Marketing/Sales Support processes including quoting, variance expenditures and/or machine sales and rentals for all areas and is responsible for documenting and distributing all of these policies and procedures.- Monitors performance results of respective marketing initiatives in accordance with the strategic plan.- Provides leadership and training to the Sales Support staff. Develops and conducts Performance Management Process (PMP) reviews for staff in a timely manner.- Develops, administers and manages training plans to maximize development, performance and potential of staff.- Plans, organizes and prioritizes daily job tasks to maintain high quality service to internal and external customers.- Proactively assists in developing and improving dealer and customer relationships, including VIP Customer Program.- Monitors the effectiveness of merchandising programs providing reporting as needed by Senior Management, respective MBD's and dealers.- Provides financial merchandising expertise to various market segments of Caterpillar dealers and internal staff.- May facilitate the development of Cat Financial Commercial Account and dealer financial merchandising promotions and training.- Ensures all promotional programs are priced in accordance with marketing strategy and return guidelines.- Develops and controls expense budget for assigned staff.- Communicates with FPD Field Sales team to discuss transactions, service levels and dealer relationships and communicates with Caterpillar dealers on the same as needed.- Participates in accomplishment of continuous improvement objectives for the department. Progress toward accomplishment of these is measured through maintenance of necessary measurements and analysis of associated data. Participates in the identification of problem areas and development of resolutions to address them.- Understands the Equal Opportunity and Harassment policies of the company, applies them in all aspects of management and maintains an environment, which is consistent with these policies