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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.

Caterpillar is looking for a Solutions Architect Senior Consultant to join our Customer Solutions Core Region (CSCR) division.

The Solutions Architect Representative is a senior individual contributor role that is responsible for designing and enabling integrated solutions that align products, services, digital capabilities, and processes to deliver defined customer or business outcomes.

This role operates across functions to translate complex needs into scalable, repeatable solution designs, bridging strategy and execution. The Solutions Architect Representative influences solution direction and adoption through expertise, systems thinking, and cross functional collaboration, without direct people management responsibility.

What You Will Do:

• Design end to end solutions by integrating equipment, services, digital tools, and operational processes to address customer, site, or business challenges.

• Drive cross functional collaboration management with product, services, digital, sales, dealer, and regional teams to ensure solutions are technically viable, commercially sound, and operationally deliverable.

• Outcome Driven Problem Solving: Analyze complex, ambiguous problem spaces and translate requirements into structured solution architectures that focus on measurable outcomes rather than individual components.

• Solution Enablement & Scaling: Support the development of solution frameworks, playbooks, and enablement materials to drive consistent adoption and repeatability across regions and teams.

• Stakeholder Management: Communicate solution concepts clearly to diverse audiences, influencing decisions and alignment without formal authority.

• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the evolution of solution offerings by incorporating feedback, lessons learned, and emerging capabilities into future designs.

Skills You Have:

- Customer Focus and Service Excellence: strong understanding of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.

- Effective Communications and Relationship Management: ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors and in a way that allows to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.

- Strategic Thinking: Working Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.

Top Candidates Will Also Have

• University degree, or equivalent years of professional, job-related experience.

• Previous work experience with Caterpillar dealers in the Sales, Operations, or Marketing space.

• Previously demonstrated experience in a staff role that required management of multiple projects and senior leadership report-outs.

• Working knowledge of dealer or distribution networks, including collaboration with sales, service, and channel partners.

Additional Information

• Location for this position is the Geneva office.

• Up to 25% travel.

• No international relocation assistance is provided

A valid Swiss work permit, Swiss citizenship, or EU-25/EFTA citizenship is required for this position.

About Customer Solutions Core Regions Division

The Customer Solutions Core Regions Division is committed to solving customer challenges that extend beyond purchasing machines and parts. This team, alongside dealers, will engage more closely with customers, to create, customize and adapt solutions to meet their needs by leveraging the extensive range of offerings available today across products and services, digital and technology, rental and used, and financing. The division will be regionally on the unique needs of customers in core regions, focused on Americas North, Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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