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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 Enterprise Strategy Competitive Intelligence team provides Caterpillar leaders and businesses with an independent, evidence-based competitive perspective on competitors, industries, customers, technologies, and other external factors affecting the company.
Our work helps decision makers understand competitor actions and capabilities and their potential implications for Caterpillar's businesses and strategy.

As a Competitive Intelligence Senior Consultant supporting Power & Energy, you will lead competitive intelligence work with primary responsibility for power generation and gas turbine applications. You will also support the broader Power & Energy portfolio as business needs require, working with other Competitive Intelligence professionals and subject-matter experts to develop knowledge across related businesses and applications. This includes developing strong familiarity with Caterpillar businesses such as Solar Turbines and Electric Power, their products and applications, and the competitors and other participants operating within these industries.

What You Will Do:

• Own targeted competitive intelligence assignments from initial problem definition through research, analysis, communication, and follow-up. Clarify the underlying business question, intended audience, timing, and how the work will be used.
• Develop and maintain competitor intelligence covering relevant competitors' businesses, products, technologies, capabilities, performance, and activities, including evidence of changing priorities or strategic direction, using publicly available and appropriately obtained information.
• Create and maintain recurring intelligence products including reports, dashboards, competitor tracking, and other monitoring deliverables that provide leaders and businesses with consistent visibility into relevant competitive developments and indicators.
• Conduct defensible research using appropriate internal and external sources. Evaluate source quality, validate material findings, maintain traceability, and clearly distinguish facts, interpretation, assumptions, and uncertainty.
• Develop decision-relevant analysis by integrating competitor, industry, commercial, financial, product, technology, and customer evidence. Test assumptions and identify conditions or indicators that could materially change an assessment.
• Build Power & Energy expertise with particular depth in power generation and gas turbine applications while developing working knowledge across Caterpillar's broader Power & Energy businesses, competitors, technologies, applications, customers, dealers, suppliers, and other relevant industry participants.
• Understand customer requirements and alternatives needed to evaluate competitor actions, capabilities, products, technologies, and their relevance to Caterpillar.
• Communicate competitive intelligence through concise, defensible briefings, presentations, reports, models, dashboards, and verbal assessments tailored to the business question and intended audience.
• Collaborate across Caterpillar with business leaders, commercial teams, finance, engineering, strategy, dealers, subject-matter experts, and other Competitive Intelligence professionals to improve problem framing, analysis, and validation.
• Operate with integrity and comply with Caterpillar legal, ethical, antitrust, confidentiality, information-management, and Competitive Intelligence requirements.

What You Have:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, preferably in business, finance, accounting, economics, engineering, data analytics, or a related field.
• Demonstrated ability to independently structure and complete complex analytical or business assignments.
• Strong commercial understanding and analytical ability, with demonstrated curiosity and ability to quickly learn unfamiliar businesses, competitors, products, technologies, industries, and applications.
• Ability to work with broad, incomplete, or ambiguous information and develop supportable conclusions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience developing and presenting material for senior business leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to establish productive working relationships across functions and levels of an organization.

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Knowledge of Caterpillar's Power & Energy businesses and the industries and applications they serve.
• Experience in power generation or gas turbine applications, or related experience in reciprocating engines, distributed generation, data-center power, oil and gas, industrial power, marine power, microgrids, energy storage, or electrification.
• Experience interpreting commercial, operational, product, technical, or financial information and applying it to broader business analysis.
• Experience integrating qualitative and quantitative information from multiple sources to develop evidence-based assessments.

Additional Details:

• Limited travel required (up to 10% of working time).

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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