Competitive Intelligence Senior Consultant, Power & Energy

Caterpillar Inc.•Irving, TX

1d•$128,470 - $192,710•Onsite

About The Position

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. Its work helps decision makers understand competitor actions and capabilities and their potential implications for Caterpillar’s businesses and strategy. The Competitive Intelligence Senior Consultant supports Power & Energy, with primary responsibility for power generation and gas turbine applications. The role also supports the broader Power & Energy portfolio as business needs require, collaborating with Competitive Intelligence professionals and subject-matter experts to build knowledge across related businesses and applications. This includes developing familiarity with Caterpillar businesses such as Solar Turbines and Electric Power, their products and applications, and the competitors and other participants in these industries.

Requirements

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 curiosity and the 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.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Own targeted competitive intelligence assignments from initial problem definition through research, analysis, communication, and follow-up, clarifying the business question, intended audience, timing, and use of the work.
Develop and maintain intelligence on 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.
Conduct defensible research using appropriate internal and external sources; evaluate source quality, validate material findings, maintain traceability, and distinguish facts, interpretation, assumptions, and uncertainty.
Integrate competitor, industry, commercial, financial, product, technology, and customer evidence into decision-relevant analysis; test assumptions and identify indicators or conditions that could materially change an assessment.
Build expertise in Power & Energy, particularly power generation and gas turbine applications, while developing working knowledge across the broader portfolio and its industry participants.
Understand customer requirements and alternatives to evaluate competitor actions, capabilities, products, technologies, and their relevance to Caterpillar.
Communicate competitive intelligence through concise briefings, presentations, reports, models, dashboards, and verbal assessments tailored to the business question and audience.
Collaborate 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.