Career Area:
Sales
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
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We are looking for a Aftermarket Sales Representative to join our Customer Facing team within one of Construction Industries’ newly formed divisions: Customer Solutions Growth Regions.
About Customer Solutions Growth Regions Division
This team, alongside dealers, engages closely with customers to create, customize, and adapt solutions to meet their needs by leveraging the extensive range of offerings available today—across products and services, digital and technology, rental and used, and financing.
The division is regionally focused on Africa, the Middle East, Eurasia, Asia (excluding Japan), and Latin America (LATAM) and organized into three functional areas: Customer Facing, Customer Solutions, and Business Enablers.
This role is part of the Customer Facing team, the engine of our business—driving growth by delivering tailored, territory-specific solutions that solve customer pain points, accelerate decision-making, and enable profitable sales execution.
Role Definition:
Manages dealers' relationships to market company products and services and assists in the development of dealer sales capability.
What You Will Do (Responsibilities):
Understanding of business model and acting within the business process guidance on review and approval for variance programs and commercial actions.
Designing and assisting dealers on the forecast, sales/rental/used strategy planning, and sales techniques; supporting the rollout of new products.
Performing regular sales performance reviews with dealers and ensuring implementation of corrective actions where needed.
Presenting products or services for stakeholders, answering any customer questions, and addressing their needs.
What Will Put You Ahead (Preferred Skills):
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent
Minimum 2 – 3 years of experience in aftermarket or parts sales, operations, or manufacturing environments
Understanding of sales funnel management and implementing sales and marketing campaigns
Experience working with digital tools and platforms in a sales or operational context (e.g. Visionlink, Parts.CAT.com, SIS2Go)
Understanding of equipment lifecycle, repair, and rebuild solutions in a heavy machinery or related industry will be plus
What You Have (Basic Skills Required):
Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
Level Working Knowledge:
Communicates the importance of customer needs/expectations and commits to resolving them.
Researches and verifies customer needs and expectations.
Solicits customer satisfaction feedback and acts on improvement opportunities.
Anticipates customer needs, focusing efforts to proactively meet needs and exceed customer expectations.
Measures and observes customer satisfaction levels to ascertain and implement service improvement alternatives.
Communicates and models the criticality of customer focus as an organizational strategy.
Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
Level Working Knowledge:
Communicates the importance of customer needs/expectations and commits to resolving them.
Researches and verifies customer needs and expectations.
Solicits customer satisfaction feedback and acts on improvement opportunities.
Helps link organizational objectives to customer needs and expectations.
Meets regularly with customers to understand their wants, needs and expectations.
Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of the organization's industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters; ability to apply industry knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Basic Understanding:
Explains how own organization compares to others in the industry.
Describes key products and services in the industry.
Identifies key industry segments and associated characteristics.
Names key industry players, leaders, and trendsetters.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Level Basic Understanding:
Explains characteristics and steps in an effective decision-making process.
Identifies issues and communicates with others when a decision needs to be made.
Names decision makers in own environment and cites examples of past decisions.
Describes types of decisions incumbent may and may not make in own job or function.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Basic Understanding:
Describes non-verbal behaviors that influence the interpretation of the message.
Cites examples of effective and ineffective communications.
Explains the importance of effective business communication.
Speaks/writes using correct language, mechanics, and gestures.
Negotiating: Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Level Basic Understanding:
Describes qualities of effective and ineffective negotiations.
Explains the basic concepts of negotiating.
Accesses organizational policies and practices for negotiating.
Utilizes techniques for establishing rapport and building trust.
Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
Level Working Knowledge:
Provides prompt and effective responses to client requests and interactions.
Monitors client satisfaction levels on a regular basis.
Alerts own team to problems in client satisfaction.
Differentiates the roles and responsibilities in a business relationship.
Works with clients to address critical issues and resolve major problems.
Value Selling: Knowledge of the principles and practices for selling products, technology and services; ability to provide overall product/service 'value' and to differentiate support offerings that address clearly understood customer needs
Level Basic Understanding:
Presents product, technology or service costs and benefits in reaction to prospect or customer requests.
Describes general concepts, practices and benefits of value-based versus product selling.
Documents proposed product/service solutions to be presented to potential customers.
Pursues additional 'value selling' education or training to enhance traditional sales practices.
Additional Information:
Must be able to travel 50% - 60% (Domestic & International)
Office-based, five days a week in Kempton Park, Johannesburg.
Relocation will not be supported.
Applications from local ISE's will be considered
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NB: The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting therefore please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.
Pending the number of applications, the criteria for the position may be enhanced to facilitate shortlisting.
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 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. Caterpillar does business on every continent, principally operating through three primary segments – Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation – and providing financing and related services through our Financial Products segment.
This position requires working onsite five days a week.
Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Posting Dates:
July 8, 2026 - July 15, 2026
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply
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