Global Competitive Intelligence & Product Positioning Lead

Caterpillar; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Caterpillar is seeking a competitive intelligence and technology strategy professional to lead the development of actionable insights. You will translate industry trends into prioritized guidance for product management, engineering, and commercial teams, influencing technology roadmaps and investment decisions.

Based in Irving, TX, this full‑time role requires collaboration across functions, travel up to 25%, and a customer‑focused mindset.

Qualifications

• Customer-focused with ability to translate customer needs into solutions.
• Strong data gathering and analysis skills across stakeholders.
• Effective decision making and critical thinking in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and relationship management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Transforms competitive news, technology trends, customer feedback, and industry observations into useful, actionable, and prioritized intelligence for business leaders, product management, engineering, and commercial teams.
• Assesses competitors’ products and technology solutions, including performance, capabilities, software, data, automation, autonomy, systems integration, business models, and positioning relative to Caterpillar offerings.
• Evaluates how competitors develop, deploy, integrate, support, and scale technologies at customer sites, including implementation approaches, interoperability, site readiness, operating practices, cybersecurity considerations, lifecycle support, in alignment with Caterpillar’s Values in Action.
• Identifies competitive technology gaps, risks, opportunities, and areas where Caterpillar should focus investment, differentiation or collaborations.
• Monitors emerging technologies and adjacent‑industry developments to assess potential disruption, applicability, and implications for Caterpillar’s product and technology roadmaps.
• Develops fact‑based responses to leadership feedback and competitive commentary, enabling engineering, technology, and product management teams to remain focused on priority work.
• Constructively challenges product, system architecture, user experience, design, and technical strategy assumptions, including established paradigms and core beliefs about how technology‑enabled products and solutions should be developed, positioned, integrated, and deployed.
• Provides an independent industry and technology perspective that tests whether current product plans, technical approaches, and roadmaps reflect customer workflows, technology adoption needs, and industry realities.
• Influences commercial strategy and business‑model decisions for technology solutions, including capital‑expenditure, operating‑expenditure, subscription, software, services, and outcome‑based value models.

Skills

Customer focus

Data gathering & analysis

Decision making & critical thinking

Effective communications

Relationship management

Strategic thinking

Job description

Caterpillar is seeking a competitive intelligence and technology strategy professional to lead the development of actionable insights. You will translate industry trends into prioritized guidance for product management, engineering, and commercial teams, influencing technology roadmaps and investment decisions.

Based in Irving, TX, this full‑time role requires collaboration across functions, travel up to 25%, and a customer‑focused mindset.