Caterpillar, Inc

Senior Marketing Consultant

Caterpillar, Inc$128K — $192K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in integrated marketing and go-to-market strategies.
  • Strong background in digital marketing and campaign management.
  • Experience with commercialization of products and services.
  • Familiarity with Caterpillar mining products and technologies.
  • Ability to leverage customer insights for business growth.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze business objectives and customer needs to formulate marketing strategies.
  • Lead planning and execution of go-to-market strategies for mining offerings.
  • Conduct research to uncover market opportunities and customer challenges.
  • Develop integrated marketing campaigns to enhance product awareness and adoption.
  • Collaborate with various teams to ensure alignment in messaging and launches.
  • Measure the effectiveness of marketing initiatives and suggest optimizations.
  • Create customer-focused value propositions and content strategies.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and volunteering.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company contributions.
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs).
  • Employee Assistance Program and career development opportunities.
  • Incentive bonuses and employee discounts available.
  • Life insurance and disability benefits.
Full Job Description

Career Area:

Marketing

Job Description:

As a Senior Marketing Consultant, you will lead the development and execution of integrated marketing strategies that drive awareness, customer engagement, adoption, and business growth across Caterpillar's mining products, services, and technology solutions. Leveraging expertise in channel activation, digital marketing, campaign management, creative development, and public relations, this role translates business objectives and customer insights into effective go-to-market strategies and customer engagement programs that deliver measurable business results.

This keeps the focus broad and strategic while clearly establishing the level and purpose of the role.

What You’ll Do:

  • Analyze business objectives, customer needs and market opportunities to develop and align integrated marketing strategies.

  • Lead go-to-market strategy, planning and execution for strategic mining offerings, such as Job Site Solutions and new product introductions (NPIs).

  • Conduct market, customer and competitive research to identify growth opportunities, customer challenges and industry trends.

  • Develop and execute integrated marketing campaigns that drive awareness, preference, adoption and business growth across products, technology and services.

  • Partner with product groups, commercial teams, dealers and enterprise stakeholders to ensure consistent messaging, launch readiness and successful market activation.

  • Measure campaign effectiveness, product launch success and business impact, recommending optimization opportunities as needed.

  • Maintain effective cross-functional communications to align marketing priorities with evolving organizational objectives, portfolio strategies and customer needs.

  • Support commercialization efforts by developing customer-focused value propositions, messaging frameworks and content strategies that communicate business outcomes and customer value.

  • Manage agency, supplier and vendor relationships to ensure high-quality execution of marketing initiatives and efficient use of marketing resources.

What Skills Will You Have:

Promotion and Marketing Communications

Develop integrated marketing communication strategies that promote products, services, and technology solutions.

Create compelling messaging and campaigns that drive customer engagement and business results.

Apply customer and market insights to optimize communication effectiveness and go-to-market execution.

Guide teams in the development of marketing campaigns, communication plans, and launch strategies.

Customer Focus

Apply customer insights to develop solutions, services, and marketing strategies that drive business value.

Build strong customer relationships through open communication, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Anticipate customer needs and implement solutions that enhance satisfaction and exceed expectations.

Promote a customer-focused culture across business decisions and commercialization efforts.

Collaborating

Build partnerships across product, commercial, dealer, and enterprise teams to achieve shared business goals.

Facilitate collaboration among diverse stakeholders to solve problems and deliver results.

Establish alignment and shared objectives that support successful product launches and commercialization efforts.

Creativity

Apply innovative thinking to address business challenges and improve customer engagement.

Balance creativity with practical business objectives to achieve measurable results.

Identify emerging trends and develop new approaches to marketing, customer adoption, and solution promotion.

Encourage experimentation and continuous improvement to drive innovation.

Effective Communications

Develop and deliver compelling communications tailored to executive, customer, dealer, and stakeholder audiences.

Influence and build alignment through effective verbal, written, and presentation skills.

Communicate complex concepts clearly to support strategic business objectives and commercialization efforts.

Relationship Management

Build and maintain trusted relationships with customers, dealers, vendors, business partners, and internal stakeholders.

Establish clear expectations and foster collaboration to achieve mutual business objectives.

Coach and empower others to develop productive, long-term business partnerships.

Vendor/Supplier Management

Manage vendor and agency relationships to ensure quality, performance, and alignment with business objectives.

Evaluate partnership effectiveness and identify opportunities to improve value and results.

Apply sound business judgment when assessing vendors, contracts, and service agreements.

Top Candidates Will Have:

  • Experience developing integrated marketing and go-to-market strategies.

  • Strong background in digital marketing, campaign management, and commercialization.

  • Knowledge of Caterpillar mining products, services, technologies, and dealer network operations.

  • Ability to leverage customer and market insights to drive business growth.

Additional Information:

The primary work location for this role is Peoria, IL OR Tucson, AZ, with a requirement to work on-site full-time at a Caterpillar facility.

Up to 10-15% travel may be required.
Domestic relocation assistance not available at this time.
Sponsorship is not available.

Posting date: 7/31/2026- 8/7/2026


 

Summary Pay Range:

$128,470.00 - $192,710.00

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. 

 

 

 

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

 

 

Posting Dates:

About Caterpillar, Inc

Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar company, is one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services worldwide. Since its acquisition by Caterpillar Inc. in 2006, Progress Rail has used the Caterpillar international footprint to gain quick and widespread notice and approval across the globe. Product technology, reliability and durability, along with legendary aftermarket parts and service support, have been their keys to success. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The technology and world reach of Caterpillar, combined with the service standard and historical reliability of Progress Rail, ensures their products and services make a growing impact on the world rail industry. With their acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), Progress Rail is the world's largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications including freight, intercity passenger, commuter, switching, industrial and mining. EMD is also a global provider of diesel power engines for marine propulsion, offshore and land based oil well drilling rigs and stationary power generation. Electro-Motive is the only diesel engine manufacturer of its size to have produced more than 70,000 engines. This success stems from product reliability, serviceability, load acceptance capability, low operating costs and ease of maintenance with standardized components.

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Learn more about Caterpillar, Inc
Size
107,700 employees
Market Cap
$125.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1925
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$41.7 billion
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