Competitive Landscape Manager
About The Position
Master the Market: Shape the Future of Construction Tech as our Competitive Landscape Manager! Ready to turn competitive intelligence into a strategic weapon? As our Competitive Specialist, you’ll bridge the gap between technical performance and business strategy, operationalizing a world-class evaluation framework. You will orchestrate global testing efforts across CTCT, Caterpillar, and Trimble, transforming complex data into the insights that define our product roadmap and maintain our edge as a global industry leader. About Us Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. The Trimble Field Systems segment provides digital construction solutions that increase precision and productivity for contractors and developers in the field. What Makes This Role Great: In this high-impact individual contributor role, you serve as the definitive Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the global competitive landscape. You aren't just observing the market; you are operationalized a brand-new evaluation framework and transforming it into standard practice. By acting as the central liaison between CTCT, Caterpillar, and Trimble, you will influence the strategic direction of our technology, identifying critical product gaps and defining the customer value drivers that shape the future of heavy civil construction.
Requirements
- Technical Mastery: You can confidently operate and troubleshoot machine control systems, GNSS hardware, and construction software.
- Collaborative Coordinator: You have a proven ability to align decentralized teams and drive reporting consistency without needing direct authority.
- Data Integrity Champion: You possess an impeccable eye for detail, ensuring every data point in our competitive database is precise.
- Self-Authored Success: You are a highly motivated professional who thrives when working autonomously and managing multiple complex timelines.
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience in heavy civil construction or the machine control industry.
- Deep domain expertise in 2D/3D grade control and onsite connectivity.
- Creative problem-solving skills, such as developing workarounds to test competitive systems on non-native machines.
Responsibilities
- Operationalize Excellence: Move our competitive evaluation framework from high-level concept to standardized, world-class testing protocols.
- Orchestrate Global Testing: Synchronize specialized internal teams—from hardware to perception—ensuring diverse data streams feed into one powerful central framework.
- Validate Performance: Plan and execute hands-on technical assessments of CTCT and competitive systems to prove real-world performance claims.
- Drive Strategic Insight: Distill complex technical findings into clear, persuasive narratives that guide executive leadership on where to focus development efforts.
- Own the Intelligence: Lead monthly cross-functional calls and govern the global competitive database to ensure our intelligence is always accurate and actionable.
Benefits
- Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans.
- Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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