Kris Dahl
Global Commercial Director - Technology at Caterpillar Inc.
- Role
- Global Commercial Director at Caterpillar Inc.
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kris Dahl
A resilient global executive with a strong track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver transformational change. Proven across the functions of sales, support, engineering, operations and supply chain with highly engineered products and solutions. Have a unique ability to lead across cultures and functions to unite teams and deliver results. Broad global experience with a deep understanding of the China market from six years of living and working in China. Career Highlights:• Rapidly grew global mining technology sales revenues through the build out of a capable global sales team and implementation of commercial processes to enable and sustain the growth. • Led development, sourcing, and global introduction of a new mining machine in record time while achieving quality and cost targets.• Led from start to finish a new manufacturing facility startup in China.• Established new global supply chains with expertise on the China market. • Turned around a struggling facility resulting with 100% on time ship performance while improving quality performance, cost reduction and team culture.
Experience
Global Commercial Director
Dec 2021 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Responsible for Caterpillar\'s global mining technology sales, commercial, and supply chain. Leading a global team of over 90 employees. Portfolio includes MineStar Command (autonomy, autonomous operations) Detect, Terrain and Edge.
Education
Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General
2014 — 2016
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Masters of Business Administration, Business Administration and Management, General
2014 — 2016
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering
2001
Harvard Law School
Program on Technology Negotiation
2007
Skills
- Engineering Management
- Project Planning
- Supply Chain
- Team Leadership
- Lean Manufacturing
- Business Innovation
- Negotiation
- Market Analysis
- Manufacturing
- Competitive Analysis
- New Market Growth
- Start-Ups
- Taking New Products to Market
- Global Marketing
- Change Management
- P&L
- Business Transformation
- Low Cost Country Sourcing
- New Business Development
- Product Marketing
- Product Innovation
- Product Management
- Global Business Development
- Product Development
- Six Sigma
- Product Launch
- Value Chain Management
- Team Building
- Management
- Program Management
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Marketing Strategy
- Leadership
- Revenue & Profit Growth
- Business Development
- Engineering
- Continuous Improvement
- Strategy
- Strategy Development
- Growth Strategies
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