Competitive Landscape Manager

Location: Dayton, Ohio, US OR Christchurch, New Zealand

Division: CTCT

Master the Market: Shape the Future of Construction Tech as our Competitive Landscape Manager!

Ready to turn competitive intelligence into a strategic weapon? As our Competitive Specialist, you'll bridge the gap between technical performance and business strategy, operationalizing a world-class evaluation framework. You will orchestrate global testing efforts across CTCT, Caterpillar, and Trimble, transforming complex data into the insights that define our product roadmap and maintain our edge as a global industry leader.

About Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)

The CTCT division (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) develops positioning, control, and automation products for earthmoving and paving machines in the construction and mining industries, using technologies such as GNSS, optical total stations, lasers, and sonics. The products are used in a range of applications where the operator of the machine benefits from having accurate horizontal and vertical guidance. For more information on currently developed products, see http://construction.trimble.com/earthworks.

What Makes This Role Great: In this high-impact individual contributor role, you serve as the definitive Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the global competitive landscape. You aren't just observing the market; you are operationalizing a brand-new evaluation framework and transforming it into standard practice. By acting as the central liaison between CTCT, Caterpillar, and Trimble, you will influence the strategic direction of our technology, identifying critical product gaps and defining the customer value drivers that shape the future of heavy civil construction.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

• Operationalize Excellence: Move our competitive evaluation framework from high-level concept to standardized, world-class testing protocols.

• Orchestrate Global Testing: Coordinatespecialized internal teams-from hardware to user experience-for the purpose of deep-dive competitive evaluations.

• Validate Performance: Plan and execute hands-on technical assessments of CTCT and competitive systems to prove real-world performance claims.

• Drive Strategic Insight: Distill complex technical findings into clear, persuasive narratives that guide executive leadership on where to focus development efforts.

• Own the Intelligence: Lead monthly cross-functional calls and govern the global competitive database to ensure our intelligence is always accurate and actionable.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Technical Mastery: You can confidently operate and troubleshoot machine control systems, GNSS hardware, and construction software.

• Collaborative Coordinator: You have a proven ability to align decentralized teams and drive reporting consistency without needing direct authority.

• Data Integrity Champion: You possess an impeccable eye for detail, ensuring every data point in our competitive database is precise.

• Self-Authored Success: You are a highly motivated professional who thrives when working autonomously and managing multiple complex timelines.

Bonus Points For

• Prior experience in heavy civil construction or the machine control industry.
  Deep domain expertise in 2D/3D grade control and onsite connectivity.

• Creative problem-solving skills, such as developing workarounds to test competitive systems on non-native machines.

• Intense curiosity about the machine control industry and how we can best meet the needs of customers.

Logistics

• Location: Dayton, OH or Christchurch, New Zealand; In-Office.

• Travel Requirement: less 20%

Why You'll Love Working With Us At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"-we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.

You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.

Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem". You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.

Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers".

Machine Control, Competitive Intelligence, GNSS, Construction Technology, Grade Control, Heavy Civil Construction, Product Evaluation, Caterpillar, CTCT, Data Analytics, Product Manager

Compensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Benefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the 'Apply Now' button located in this posting.

Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values-Belong, Innovate, and Grow-we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under "Corporate Governance."

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