Competitive Product Positioning Intelligence Manager

What you'll do

• Transform competitive news, technology trends, and customer feedback into actionable intelligence for business leaders.
• Assess competitors' products, software, data, automation, and business models relative to Caterpillar offerings.
• Identify competitive technology gaps, risks, and opportunities to guide investment and differentiation.
• Monitor emerging technologies and adjacent-industry developments to assess potential disruption to product roadmaps.
• Challenge product, system architecture, and technical strategy assumptions to ensure alignment with customer workflows.
• Influence commercial strategy and business-model decisions for technology solutions and subscription models.
• Provide independent industry perspectives to test whether current product plans reflect industry realities.

What we're looking for

• Ability to transform competitive news, technology trends, and customer feedback into actionable intelligence for business leaders.
• Ability to assess competitors' products, software, data, automation, and business models relative to Caterpillar offerings.
• Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes to synthesize information from various stakeholders.
• Knowledge of decision-making processes and the ability to reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
• Ability to apply organizational acumen and big-picture thinking to identify key success factors for the organization.
• Industry experience in mining, construction, or technology with a direct understanding of competitor offerings (preferred).
• Experience in a customer-side or operating role such as fleet management, purchasing, or digital transformation (preferred).