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Senior Strategy Manager - Electric Power

Caterpillar, Inc.

Mossville, ILFull-time$173–259K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$173–259K/yr
Location
Mossville, IL
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

Caterpillar’s Electric Power Division is seeking a Senior Strategy Manager to develop and facilitate commercial and product strategies for technologies and solutions supporting customers through the energy transition. The role uses industry, competitive, technology, and customer intelligence to guide product development and partnerships, including commercial agreements, venture capital investments, and M&A. The primary worksite is Mossville, Illinois, with an additional location in Irving, Texas.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Global PerspectiveCommunicationStrategic ThinkingStakeholder ManagementTechnical AcumenFinance and InvestmentFinancial AnalysisDeal NegotiationOrganizational Governance

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Engineering, Finance, or Related FieldsMBA

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
401(k) Match
Parental Leave
Tuition Assistance
Relocation Assistance

Full job description

Irving, Texas

Mossville, Illinois

Full time

R0000401574

Career Area:

Strategy

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.

About EPD

Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations!

Job Summary:

We have an exciting role open within Caterpillar’s Electric Power Division (EPD) for a Senior Strategy Manager within the Strategy and Corporate Development team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and facilitating commercial and product strategies for various technologies and solutions to help Caterpillar customers manage the energy transition.

You will work with and support a global team of engineering and operations professionals responsible for the development and implementation of EPD products and solutions by creating and facilitating strategies that utilize industry, competitive, technology, and customer intelligence to ensure that Caterpillar is positioned to be an industry leader in energy solutions.

This role will also be responsible for executing these strategies through finding, engaging, and facilitating commercial agreements and investments into external partners that will complement the efforts of the EPD teams. You will work with EPD teams to identify priority technologies and solutions, identify candidate partners, facilitate exploration and selection of preferred partners, and manage engagements with selected partners such as co-development agreements and investments including Venture Capital and M&A.

What You Will Do:

  • Lead efforts to analyze industry and competitive intelligence around certain themes or technology areas

  • Create strategic frameworks for how EPD teams should position product and solutions development to create customer value

  • Work with teams to implement product and commercial strategies

  • Identify and raise awareness of potential strategic alliances and partnerships

  • Identify potential investment opportunities that create strategic value

  • Work with legal to execute and manage commercial agreements with partners such as NDAs and co-development agreements

  • Work with corporate teams to execute and manage Venture Capital investments and M&A opportunities

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What You Have:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Finance, or related fields

  • Global Perspective: Working knowledge of issues, opportunities, and challenges for conducting business in the international marketplace; ability to apply global perspectives appropriately in a wide range of situations.

  • Effective Communications: Extensive experience and 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.

  • Strategic Thinking: Working 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.

  • Stakeholder Management: Extensive experience and knowledge of stakeholder management techniques; ability to systematically identify stakeholders, analyze their needs and expectations, and implement various tasks to engage with them.

What Will Set You Apart:

  • Technical Acumen : Fundamental knowledge and ability to learn technologies relevant to EPD to facilitate the sourcing and engagement of partners

  • Finance and Investment: Knowledge of finance and investment practices, financial analysis, and reporting, deal negotiation, ability to apply finance knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.

  • Organizational Governance: Knowledge of the processes, customs, policies, and rules affecting the way the organization is administered and controlled; ability to ensure compliance with governance guidelines and policies.

  • MBA desired

Additional Information :

  • The primary location for this position is Mossville, IL

  • Additional location includes Irving, TX

  • International and Domestic travel up to 25%

Summary Pay Range:

$172,630.00 - $258,950.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-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.

Posting Dates:

October 26, 2026 - November 9, 2026

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.

Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community (http://flows.beamery.com/caterpillarinc/talcom) .

There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar.

Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.

How this job compares

Set against the 650 open Strategy Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$173–259K/yr
  • Illinois median$119–253K/yr21 salary ranges
  • US median$119–253K/yr623 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $216K, is 27% above the Illinois median midpoint ($170K) — in the top quarter of Strategy Manager salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 22 open Strategy Manager jobs in Illinois and 650 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
Strategy Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 7 years (632 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 496 of the 650 open Strategy Manager jobs (76%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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