Senior Strategy Consultant in Peterborough

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. Together, we are building a better world.

Salary: Starting from £66,069 (Depending on Experience)

Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave
• Up to 18% Bonus
• Car Allowance - £625pcm
• Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution Up to 10%
• Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution
• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase

About IPSD: Caterpillar’s Industrial Power Systems Division (IPSD) designs, tests and manufactures 0.5 to 18L Cat and Perkins engines that power over 5000 applications including Marine, Petroleum, Industrial Applications, Electric Generators, and Locomotives. Caterpillar’s company strategy includes sustainability as one of four focus areas and IPSD is engaged and actively preparing green energy solutions for the future.

The Opportunity: We are seeking a commercially minded and analytical Senior Strategy Consultant focussing on profitable revenue growth in our Sales, Marketing, Servicing & Parts (SMSP) global team. The ideal candidate will combine a growth mindset with commercial; industry and product experience combined with strong data literacy, CRM expertise, and the ability to turn complex data into actionable insights that support revenue generation and customer growth. This role works closely with Sales, Business Resources, Marketing, Commercial, Product and the senior leadership team.

In this role, you’ll be the bridge between sales performance and strategic decision-making. You’ll design and oversee key sales processes and the reporting and governance frameworks that reveal where we’re winning, where we can improve, how we can grow profitably and whether we are on track to hit our growth targets.

What You Will Do:

• Own the end-to-end long term sales reporting process — from data collection to executive-ready dashboards — using tools like Power BI, Tableau, Salesforce and Excel.
• Own the Commercial Excellence governance framework to ensure sales activities are on track to meet our long-term growth targets.
• Own critical global sales processes including Sales Opportunity Pipeline and Strategic Account Planning.
• Act as a trusted advisor to sales and commercial leadership teams using data and market insights to steer in the direction of profitable growth.
• Lead regular Sales pipeline and performance reviews, presenting insights and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Business Resources, Product and Commercial teams to identify and prioritise profitable growth opportunities.
• Drive adoption of the aforementioned global sales processes, reporting tools, governance processes across the sales organisation through training and stakeholder engagement.
• Support the Strategy Manager in preparing for Senior Vice President / Vice President governance reviews.
• Lead ad hoc projects to drive growth / process improvement.

What You Have:

• Data Gathering & Analysis: Knowledge of data gathering and analysis tools, techniques, and processes; ability to collect and synthesize data from a variety of stakeholders and sources in an objective manner to reach a conclusion, goal, or judgment.
• Proven experience in sales analytics, reporting, or commercial operations, ideally in a B2B environment.
• Strong proficiency with reporting and BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Salesforce dashboards).

Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.

Strategic Thinking: 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.

Effective Communications: 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 behaviours.

Exceptional communication skills — able to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights.

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own.

A proactive, growth-focused mindset with the ability to influence and communicate to stakeholders at all levels.

Top Candidates Will Also:

• Be intellectually curious in nature, leaning on skills developed through working with cross functional teams.
• Have the ability to drive actions and build partnership cross-functionally.

This office is based from the office in Peterborough 5 days a week.

About Caterpillar: Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For over 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future.

This position requires working onsite five days a week.