Division Communication Manager - Electrification + Energy Solutions

Career Area:

Communications

Job Description:

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.

About the Caterpillar Electrification + Energy Solutions Division

Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 100-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

The Electrification + Energy Solutions (E+ES) division is at the forefront of Caterpillar’s commitment to a more sustainable future. We focus on delivering advanced electrified powertrains, zero-emissions technologies, and the integrated solutions and services that support them. Our work spans batteries, fuel cells, motors, inverters, microgrid controllers, charging infrastructure, energy storage systems, and full ePowertrain integration across industries.

What sets us apart is our relentless focus on understanding our customers’ toughest challenges and solving them with speed, agility, and innovation. We invest in emerging technologies and continuously learn to stay ahead of the curve—ensuring our solutions are not only cutting-edge but also practical and impactful.

To achieve this, we’re building dynamic, cross-functional teams that leverage the unique strengths of every individual. We’re looking for self-driven, emotionally intelligent, and collaborative people who thrive in fast-paced environments and are eager to explore, experiment, and deliver. If you’re passionate about making a difference and ready to help shape the future of energy and electrification, we want you on our team.

The Opportunity

To support this exciting work, we're looking for a creative and passionate Division Communication Manager - Electrification + Energy Solutions with strong business acumen and a growth mindset to join our fun and collaborative team. In this role, you will lead a communications team in the development and implementation of strategic and engaging communications for the Electrification and Energy Solutions Division within Caterpillar. Reporting to the Director of Human Resources and Segment Communication Manager, and directly supporting the Senior Vice President, you will be a vital member of the leadership team and a trusted advisor on a wide range of communications that directly impacts Caterpillar’s reputation. As a trusted business partner, you’ll work closely with senior leaders and business partners to drive our strategic priorities and E+ES culture through actionable communications plans. You’ll also lead and collaborate with global, cross-functional teams that make an important impact on the business.

What You Will Do:  

• Lead a small communications team to develop and execute actionable communication strategies to drive collaboration, understanding, change management, adaptability and a growth mindset.
• Manage all communications for the Senior Vice President, which requires strong business acumen and a deep understanding of the strategic elements of the business and the business challenges.
• Coach and mentor senior leadership on effective communication strategy development and delivery.
• Focus on enhancing the employee experience by prioritizing people and internal communications. You will develop and implement strategies to improve internal communication channels, ensuring that employees are well-informed, engaged, and connected.
• Partner with Human Resources to build and manage strategies that develop leaders, prioritize inclusion, instill deep understanding of the business, promote critical skills, and support a growth mindset.
• Collaborate closely with the media team to tell compelling stories highlighting our businesses and people in various markets.
• Prepare internal and external presentations, talking points, articles, emails, videos and other materials to embed the identity of the division with key stakeholder groups.
• Manage multiple, complex, high-pressure assignments under tight deadlines with complete accuracy and the highest quality 
• Craft written materials for stakeholders, often on complex topics, to diverse, global audiences. Stakeholders include but are not limited to employees, media, investors, dealers, customers, suppliers and government officials.  Understand communication objectives for various audiences.

The Skills You Have:  

• Planning & Project Management: Creating and implementing a strategy for supporting current and future business needs while also leading the execution of the agreed upon timelines. Ensuring stakeholder awareness and approvals are gained appropriately.
• Communicating Complex Concepts: Quickly grasps complex ideas and details with the ability to summarize and simplify in a simple, clear language appropriate to the audience(s).
• Effective Communications: Communicates effectively with diverse audience, internally and externally, develops a deep understanding of global cultures, to ensure messages are clearly written and understood. Has the ability to coach others on methods of improving their own communications.
• Growth and Agility: Ability to embrace challenges, show resilience, and proactively seek improvement and innovation to improve an organization’s competitive advantage. Understanding of the necessity to experiment and continuously learn.
• Influencing: Leads and presents collaborative proposals that persuasively influence decision makers. Delivers well-received presentations of cost, benefits, risks, and other considerations. Advises on techniques to build rapport and commitment to common purpose. Achieves influence and impact even when holding a position contrary to the majority.
• Initiative: Chooses to go above and beyond what’s expected of the role without being asked. Proceeds without seeking unnecessary permission while keeping stakeholders properly updated with progress.
• Interpersonal Relationships: Seeks out what's common in conflicting points of view. Establishes, influences and maintains credibility with key individuals inside and outside own group and earns respect at all levels of the organization.
• Communicating & Writing: Creates and develops materials, speeches, presentations, reviews press releases and develops internal and external social media plans. Will play a leading role in defining division and segment specific writing approaches and practices.
• Organizational Communications: Develops organizational communication strategies and policies. Advises others on a wide spectrum of communications programs. Leads in the design and development of multimedia communications campaigns. Champions the use of innovative communications vehicles and practices.

Top Candidates Will Also Have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in communications or related field  
• 10 or more years of progressive communications-related experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills are required to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or persuade others inside and outside the department to take specific actions.

Additional Information:

• The location for this position is Irving, TX.
• Domestic relocation assistance is offered for this position.
• This position may require 15% travel.
• Visa Sponsorship is not offered for this position.

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 nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

Summary Pay Range:

$144,960.00 - $217,320.00

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

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

Posting Dates:

June 2, 2025 - June 8, 2025

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.     

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

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