Director of Strategy

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Irving, TX

This is a Director of Strategy role at Caterpillar, focusing on developing and executing strategic goals, identifying growth opportunities, analyzing market trends, and tracking performance. It requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and strategic thinking skills, with a preference for candidates with extensive financial experience, competitive analysis, and M&A background. The role does not involve direct AI/ML development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work directly with the Resource Industries senior leadership team on developing and executing of our strategic goals.
  2. Identify new growth opportunities (new markets, products, M&A, etc..)
  3. Lead a team responsible for driving insights as it relates to the macro trends in mining (economic, industry, etc..). Analyze industry trends and customer behavior.
  4. Partner and drive insights on improving machine physical availability, solving our customers greatest challenges
  5. Track performance against segment strategic goals and KPIs, removing roadblocks and ensuring alignment across the segment

Skills

Required

  • Effective Communications
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Bachelor’s degree within Finance, Economics, Engineering, or other related fields
  • 10+ years of financial experience, competitive analysis, and/or M&A, preferably within a larger and/or multinational corporation.

Nice to have

  • Strong communication skills
  • Excellent business acumen
  • business partnership
  • leadership
  • Ability to gather large amounts of data/facts and leverage technology to distill into clear messages
  • Initiative
  • leadership
  • business judgment
  • effective organization skills
  • accountability
  • Ability to resolve issues independently

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of financial experience
  • competitive analysis
  • M&A