Senior Learning & Development Partner

Career Area:

Human Resources

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.

The Senior Learning & Development Partner leads the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of development programs and initiatives that strengthen leadership and professional capability across our connected dealer network and external partners. This role blends strategic consulting, instructional design, program development, and facilitation to drive measurable impact aligned with the Caterpillar refreshed enterprise strategy. You will partner with business leaders across our product segments and functions to diagnose capability needs, build scalable development solutions, and deliver learning experiences that prepare dealer leadership for current and future demands.

This is a high impact role for a strategic thinker and skilled practitioner who thrives on building, influencing, and elevating talent within a complex global environment.

• Establish and maintain processes to assess changing business needs for leadership, professional skills, and organizational development.
• Provide expert consulting on complex development challenges, including capability gaps, leadership needs, and large-scale learning solutions.
• Design global and cross functional development programs that directly support business priorities.

• Manage the creation of high-quality learning content using modern instructional design and adult learning methodologies.
• Manage development of digital courses, instructor led content, blended learning solutions, and toolkits that address identified needs.
• Evaluate pilot programs and existing curricula to recommend scalable enhancements for enterprise deployment.

• Lead the design and delivery of executive level development experiences, including advanced leadership programs, strategic capability workshops, and high impact learning sessions tailored for dealer senior leaders across the dealer network.
• Partner with executive sponsors and business leaders to identify critical leadership capability gaps and translate them into targeted learning journeys that build strategic, operational, and people leadership excellence.
• Coach and facilitate sessions with senior leaders, leveraging strong executive presence to guide discussions, influence thinking, and cultivate a culture of continuous leadership development.

• Manage regional deployment of programs with efficiency and impact, leveraging technology, vendor partnerships, and internal resources.
• Facilitate engaging learning experiences and coach others on effective delivery methods.
• Ensure effective coordination of operational logistics, delivery schedules, and resource planning for successful training execution.

• Assess program effectiveness through data, feedback, and business outcomes.
• Integrate insights to continuously refine content, technology, and delivery approaches.
• Capture lessons learned and apply them to future program design and operational improvement.

Consulting: Extensive knowledge of techniques, roles, and responsibilities in providing technical or business guidance to clients, both internal and external; ability to apply consulting knowledge appropriately.

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

Problem Solving: Extensive knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Training Needs Analysis: Extensive knowledge of tools, techniques and methods of training needs analyses; ability to identify what people need to learn for successful individual and organizational performance.

Training Solution Development: Extensive knowledge of training solution development procedures, tools and techniques; ability to utilize the knowledge for developing a solution to stated training needs.

Training Delivery: Extensive knowledge of methods and tools of training delivery;
Ability to deliver learning solutions for desired training outcomes.

Instructional Design: Working knowledge of relevant instructional design concepts and processes; ability to lead design of instructional content to meet the learning needs of a target population.

Training Technologies: Working knowledge of training tools and…