Competitive Intelligence Senior Consultant, Power & Energy

Caterpillar•Irving, TX

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Competitive Intelligence Senior Consultant supports Caterpillar’s Enterprise Strategy Competitive Intelligence team, providing independent, evidence-based analysis of competitors, industries, customers, technologies, and other external factors affecting the company. The role focuses primarily on power generation and gas turbine applications and also supports Caterpillar’s broader Power & Energy portfolio as business needs require. It develops familiarity with businesses such as Solar Turbines and Electric Power, their products and applications, and relevant competitors and industry participants. The position leads competitive intelligence assignments from problem definition through research, analysis, communication, and follow-up. It develops and maintains competitor intelligence and recurring monitoring products, conducts defensible research, integrates commercial, financial, product, technology, industry, and customer evidence, and communicates findings in decision-relevant formats for business leaders. The role collaborates across Caterpillar and must comply with legal, ethical, antitrust, confidentiality, information-management, and Competitive Intelligence requirements. The position is onsite five days a week, requires limited travel of up to 10% of working time, and offers relocation. Visa sponsorship is not available. The stated summary pay range is $128,470–$192,710.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
Ability to independently structure and complete complex analytical or business assignments.
Strong commercial understanding and analytical ability.
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.
Ability to establish productive working relationships across organizational functions and levels.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, economics, engineering, data analytics, or a related field.
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.
Clarify the underlying business question, intended audience, timing, and intended use of assignments.
Develop and maintain intelligence on relevant competitors’ businesses, products, technologies, capabilities, performance, activities, and potential changes in 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 from interpretation, assumptions, and uncertainty.
Integrate competitor, industry, commercial, financial, product, technology, and customer evidence to develop decision-relevant analysis.
Test assumptions and identify conditions or indicators that could materially change an assessment.
Build expertise in Power & Energy, particularly power generation and gas turbine applications, while developing working knowledge of Caterpillar’s broader businesses and relevant industry participants.
Understand customer requirements and alternatives to evaluate competitor actions, capabilities, products, technologies, and their relevance to Caterpillar.
Communicate findings through concise briefings, presentations, reports, models, dashboards, and verbal assessments tailored to the question and audience.
Collaborate with business leaders, commercial teams, finance, engineering, strategy, dealers, subject-matter experts, and other Competitive Intelligence professionals.
Comply with Caterpillar’s legal, ethical, antitrust, confidentiality, information-management, and Competitive Intelligence requirements.