Senior Director Business Development, Asia Pacific

caterpillar inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Singapore seeks a Sales professional to manage day-to-day operations of a sales team and drive business results. You will identify opportunities, supervise staff, and promote products while aligning with customer needs and company goals.

The role emphasizes developing sales programs, directing a sales force to meet targets, and determining discount strategies to achieve profitability and growth.

Qualifications

• Customer focus is the ability to align customer needs with business decisions and create customized solutions.
• Data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes to synthesize input from stakeholders.
• Decision-making processes and tools to analyze situations and reach constructive conclusions.
• Effective communication concepts, tools and techniques to clearly convey ideas and needs.
• Relationship management techniques to establish and maintain productive client, vendor, and peer relationships.
• Strategic thinking to understand the big picture and map plans to achieve long-term success.
• Value selling concepts to differentiate offerings and address customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Identifying and analyzing organization's strengths and weaknesses, and responding to opportunities in sales and operations environment.
• Supervising and coordinating the daily activities of staff engaged in promoting and selling a product, driving operational improvement, and overseeing the resolution of customer complaints.
• Developing and managing sales programs in alignment with long and short-term sales strategies; establishing training programs for sales team.
• Managing and directing a sales force to achieve sales and profit goals; determining discount rates.

Skills

Customer Focus

Data Gathering & Analysis

Decision Making & Critical Thinking

Effective Communications

Relationship Management

Strategic Thinking

Value Selling

Job description

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Career Area

Sales

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Role Definition,

Manages day-to-day operations of a sales team to achieve business goals.

Responsibilities

• Identifying and analyzing organization's strengths and weaknesses, and responding to opportunities in sales and operations environment.


• Supervising and coordinating the daily activities of staff engaged in promoting and selling a product, driving operational improvement, and overseeing the resolution of customer complaints.


• Developing and managing sales programs in alignment with long and short-term sales strategies; establishing training programs for sales team.


• Managing and directing a sales force to achieve sales and profit goals; determining discount rates.

Skill Descriptors

• Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.


• Data Gathering & Analysis: Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment.


• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.


• Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.


• Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.


• Strategic Thinking: Knowledge of the importance of "big picture" thinking and planning; ability to apply organizational acumen and competitiveness to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for the organization.


• Value Selling: Knowledge of the principles and practices for selling products, technology and services; ability to provide overall product/service 'value' and to differentiate support offerings that address clearly understood customer needs.

Posting Dates

September 7, 2026 - September 21, 2026

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply