Senior Strategy Analyst

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 128470 - 192710

Posted on: 20 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Career Area:

Strategy

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar yourejoining 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 dontjust 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.

Job Description

The Growth Accelerator team drives Caterpillars inorganic and partnership-based growth through a See Do Act operating model. The Do role is responsible for rigorously evaluating opportunities surfaced by the See function and determining whetherand howCaterpillar should pursue them.

This role leads deep-dive assessments of strategic opportunities working closely with engineers Business Units and functional partners to pressure-test strategic fit technical feasibility and competitive positioning. The individual will help rationalize whether Caterpillar should build partner acquire or invest and clearly articulate that recommendation to senior leaders.

This position is ideal for a high-potential strategy professional with strong analytical skills exceptional storytelling ability and a track record of producing clear compelling executive materials.

What You Will Do:

Lead deep-dive evaluations of opportunities identified through the Growth Accelerator See pipeline.
Pressure-test opportunities across strategic technical commercial and competitive dimensions.
Partner with internal engineering teams and Business Units to assess how opportunities align with Caterpillars strategic focus areas.
Analyze the competitive landscape to determine target differentiation defensibility and strategic relevance.
Develop clear recommendations on whether to build partner acquire or invest supported by data and structured analysis.
Translate complex analyses into concise compelling narratives for senior leadership decision-making.
Build high-quality executive-ready presentations that clearly frame the opportunity risks tradeoffs and recommended path forward.
Support handoff to the Act role for execution when opportunities advance

What You Will Have:

Strategic Analysis: Strong ability to assess opportunities holistically integrating market technology customer and competitive insights.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience working effectively with engineers Business Units and functional teams to gather inputs and test assumptions.
Competitive Assessment: Ability to evaluate competitive environments alternative solutions and relative positioning.
Structured Thinking: Comfort breaking ambiguous problems into clear frameworks hypotheses and decision points.
Executive Storytelling: A demonstrated superpower in telling a clear persuasive storyparticularly through clean well-structured presentations.
Communication: Excellence Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor messages to technical and non-technical audiences.
Growth Mindset: Intellectual curiosity coachability and ambition to grow into a future leadership or manager role.

Consideration for Top Candidates:

Prior experience in strategy consulting corporate development or technical commercialization
Strong presentation design and narrative development skills
Experience evaluating technology-driven or innovation-led opportunities
Demonstrated potential to grow into broader ownership and leadership responsibilities

Additional Information:

This position requires the candidate towork onsite at one of these offices; Illinois (Mossville or Chicago) and Texas (Dallas)
Relocation assistance is available for this position
Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position.
This position will require up to 10% travel
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Summary Pay Range:

$128470.00 - $192710.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors job level market locationjob-related knowledge skills individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility terms and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

Medical dental and vision benefits*
Paid time off plan (Vacation Holidays Volunteer etc.)*
401(k) savings plans*
Health Savings Account (HSA)*
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
Health Lifestyle Programs*
Employee Assistance Program*
Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
Career Development*
Incentive bonus*
Disability benefits
Life Insurance
Parental leave
Adoption benefits
Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

This position requires working onsite five days a week.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer such as H L TN F J E O. As a global company Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Career Area:StrategyJob Description:Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar yourejoining 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 susta...