Spm Product Strategy Manager

Caterpillar Caterpillar · Industrial · Fort Worth, TX

Product Strategy Manager for Caterpillar's global SPM product line, responsible for defining and executing product strategy, long-term product direction, investment prioritization, and portfolio strategy. This role involves identifying market opportunities, developing business cases, and guiding R&D investments to drive profitable growth. The manager will lead a team, engage with customers and regional teams, and influence cross-functional partners.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team responsible for providing segment strategy leadership for all products sold worldwide in the. This will include identifying areas for growth within the industry, evaluation of new technologies, long-term forecasting, business case development, and strategy implementation to support new business development for the Well Service Industry.
  2. Own global segment strategy through direct engagement with regional teams to address customer needs, regulatory requirements, and competitive dynamics.
  3. Build relationships with key customer stakeholders to align SPM’s product strategy with the thought and technology leaders in the industry.
  4. Travel regularly to gather information about customer needs, market dynamics, the competitive landscape and SPM’s position in the industry.
  5. Synthesize market research and customer needs to cast the vision of where the flow and pump industries will be headed in the short, medium, and long term.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years experience in flow iron, pump and fluid end product development
  • Strong understanding of Well Service and Hydraulic Fracturing applications, equipment, and operating environments (e.g., natural gas and diesel engines, power systems, pumps, transmissions, or adjacent technologies).
  • Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with internal and external customers and stakeholders
  • An entrepreneurial product manager mindset focused on solving customer problems while driving profitable growth.
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze and synthesize a wide range of market data into a clear and compelling product strategy
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity, balancing competing priorities, and making decisions with imperfect information.
  • Customer Focus
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Data Gathering & Analysis
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking
  • Effective Communications

What the JD emphasized

  • evaluation of new technologies
  • guide R&D investments