Global Logistics - Business Analyst at Solar Turbines in San Diego, CA

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Job Description:

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Objective   

Global Supply Chain Logistics is continuously looking to improve our processes, reduce costs/spend, reduce supply chain/supplier risk, and improve quality. The focus of this role includes working with third party transportation systems and data across multiple systems,  organizing data, synthesizing data to create BI dashboards, managing third-party partners, leading data integration initiatives and working across teams to help improve quality and cost of transportation and duty expenditure.
The incumbent will have the opportunity to lead projects to enhance our global supply chain control tower, information management system(s), and lead supply chain optimization projects (including duty savings, global route planning, sourcing to lowest landed costs, asset tracking, quality improvements, freight audit and cost reduction etc.).
The incumbent's initial focus will be to work independently to conduct duty savings analysis to enable strategic procurement to help lower landed costs and manage carrier/customs invoice payments with objective to reduce duty. 

Role Definition

The Business Analyst represents the business in the overall Data Governance Program at the domain level. They are accountable to manage a set of variables or information. The Business Analyst position is responsible for working with Data Owners from multiple product leads on the team, across the enterprise and with outside vendors to resolve problems, implement process improvements, train end users and provide solutions to a wide range of technical problems of moderate complexity. They implement data management procedures, support EDI integrations, the flow of information between dispersant systems, analyze data quality, develop database systems, produce tableau and BI reports and create documentation to ensure data integrity, security and maintenance processes run appropriately.   

Scope

The Business Analyst typically manages multiple assignments simultaneously with urgent deadlines impacting cost, and margin. They are responsible for analyzing multiple sources of the same data for data accuracy, building dashboards, managing digitalization and data flow between suppliers and carriers and Solar Turbines, as well as defining and maintaining data quality metrics and following up to explain trends, root causes of anomalies and identify opportunities for improvement.

    

Position Summary

Works closely with one or more teams in translating business and design requirements into functional specifications needed by the Global Logistics team to support cost reduction and quality improvement initiatives with focus on digital transformation and analysis.

Responsibilities  

• Data analysis on duty savings opportunities, transportation network optimization, and supplier strategic sourcing opportunities with goal to lower landed costs  

• Provide oversight of data domains and standards within third party systems

• Lead payment process for duty, custom broker and freight payments  

• Development of Tableau and PowerBI dashboard  

• Create and manage supply chain global business intelligence dashboards 

• Reconciliation of accounts payable, forecasting accruals, and future liabilities.

• Support digital twin initiative on product, freight flows, to understand landed costs

• Manage logistics carrier EDI specs, end to end data flows btw dispersant systems

• Collaborates with one or more cross-functional digital product teams to gather and analyze business requirements for digital initiatives, including Transportation Management, Freight Payment enhancements

• Ensures business and functional requirements are captured and organized.

• Conducts stakeholder interviews, workshops, and user research to understand user

• Works closely with the product owner, scrum master, designers, developers, and testers to ensure the successful delivery of digital initiatives.

• Lead transformation initiatives including working with third party companies and suppliers

• Reporting and creation of presentations

Desired Qualifications 

• Strong business acumen

• Skills to create Tableau and/or BI dashboards (PowerBI)  

• Bachelor's Degree and/or experience within logistics or supply chain

• Strong conviction, open to consider alternative points of views    

• Change agent; effective communicator w/internal clients and outside partners   

• Ability to effectively communicate with other team members, supplier and end-users  

• Data and systems management experience  

• Proficient in spoken and written English skills

• Understanding of Global Logistics

Preferred Qualifications 

• Accounts payable experience  

• Familiarity with customs and trade 

• Exposure to EDI Exposure to Python 

• Proven ability to leverage emerging AI technologies 

• German, French, Czech language skills

Summary Pay Range:

$112,710.00 - $169,060.00

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. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job.  At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.  It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

 

 

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

 

 

 

 

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

May 11, 2026 - May 25, 2026

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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