Career Area:
Strategy
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
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Job Description
The Growth Accelerator team drives Caterpillar’s inorganic and partnership-based growth through a See → Do → Act operating model. The Do role is responsible for rigorously evaluating opportunities surfaced by the See function and determining whether—and how—Caterpillar should pursue them.
This role leads deep-dive assessments of strategic opportunities, working closely with engineers, Business Units, and functional partners to pressure-test strategic fit, technical feasibility, and competitive positioning. The individual will help rationalize whether Caterpillar should build, partner, acquire, or invest, and clearly articulate that recommendation to senior leaders.
This position is ideal for a high-potential strategy professional with strong analytical skills, exceptional storytelling ability, and a track record of producing clear, compelling executive materials.
What You Will Do:
- Lead deep-dive evaluations of opportunities identified through the Growth Accelerator See pipeline.
- Pressure-test opportunities across strategic, technical, commercial, and competitive dimensions.
- Partner with internal engineering teams and Business Units to assess how opportunities align with Caterpillar’s strategic focus areas.
- Analyze the competitive landscape to determine target differentiation, defensibility, and strategic relevance.
- Develop clear recommendations on whether to build, partner, acquire, or invest, supported by data and structured analysis.
- Translate complex analyses into concise, compelling narratives for senior leadership decision-making.
- Build high-quality, executive-ready presentations that clearly frame the opportunity, risks, tradeoffs, and recommended path forward.
- Support handoff to the Act role for execution when opportunities advance
What You Will Have:
- Strategic Analysis: Strong ability to assess opportunities holistically, integrating market, technology, customer, and competitive insights.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience working effectively with engineers, Business Units, and functional teams to gather inputs and test assumptions.
- Competitive Assessment: Ability to evaluate competitive environments, alternative solutions, and relative positioning.
- Structured Thinking: Comfort breaking ambiguous problems into clear frameworks, hypotheses, and decision points.
- Executive Storytelling: A demonstrated “superpower” in telling a clear, persuasive story—particularly through clean, well-structured presentations.
- Communication: Excellence Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Growth Mindset: Intellectual curiosity, coachability, and ambition to grow into a future leadership or manager role.
Consideration for Top Candidates:
- Prior experience in strategy, consulting, corporate development, or technical commercialization
- Strong presentation design and narrative development skills
- Experience evaluating technology-driven or innovation-led opportunities
- Demonstrated potential to grow into broader ownership and leadership responsibilities
Additional Information:
- This position requires the candidate to work onsite at one of these offices; Illinois (Mossville or Chicago) and Texas (Dallas)
- Relocation assistance is available for this position
- Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.
- This position will require up to 10% travel
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Summary Pay Range:
$128,470.00 - $192,710.00
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.Relocation is available for this position.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.
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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