Strategy Manager - Aftermarket

Job Description

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.

Strategy

Job Title: Strategy Manager
- Aftermarket

Salary: From £79,424 depending on experience

Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

• 25 days annual leave
• Monthly Cash Car Allowance
• Up to 20% Bonus
• 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.

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.

IPSD Sales, Marketing, Servicing & Parts (SMSP) has an opening for a Strategy Manager to join the Perkins Aftermarket team. Reporting to the Aftermarket Director and serving as a key member of the Aftermarket leadership team, this high-profile role will lead the development and execution of the global aftermarket strategy for the Perkins brand. The position is instrumental in driving sustainable growth, delivering commercial excellence initiatives, and enhancing customer value across the Industrial Power Division.

Working closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders across the business, the successful candidate will be responsible for translating strategic priorities into actionable plans, ensuring the successful delivery of critical projects that strengthen the Perkins brand, unlock new opportunities, and support long‑term business objectives. This role requires a highly adaptable and collaborative leader who can influence across multiple disciplines and thrive in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment.

• Manage a team to ensure strategic coordination and alignment between projects
• Sponsor and lead complex projects and commercial excellence processes to drive efficiencies and profitable growth objectives
• Lead the strategy deployment and measure progress to meet objectives, goals, and financial results
• Direct and indirectly supervise and coach cross‑functional project leaders, ensuring strategic coordination and alignment between projects
• Manage and cascade the communication plan, including ownership of internal governance, employee communication, and collaboration with support functions
• Prepare high quality presentation materials to communicate the strategy and its implementation to stakeholders at all levels of the organization up to Executive Office, either in person or through others
• Prepare the agenda and lead the preparation of material for monthly metrics reviews and quarterly strategy reviews in support of IPSD priorities

• 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.
  • Experience developing and deploying business, commercial or growth strategies within a complex global organization.
  • Ability to translate strategic objectives into measurable action plans and business outcomes.
• Visioning
  Understanding of the value of articulating an intended business outcome and ability to create and communicate a vision of the organization that motivates others to superior performance.
  • Reinforces and reiterates linkages between the team's work and the vision.
  • Eliminates from consideration those scenarios that are inconsistent with the vision.
  • Incul…