Senior Digital Product Owner Supply Planning

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As a Senior Digital Product Owner Supply Planning you will play a critical role in strengthening Caterpillars supply planning digital portfolio directly impacting the companys ability to scale and support future growth. This role is focused on improving the quality usability and reliability of a missioncritical digital product used across Caterpillars supply planning operations.

You will bring a strong analytical and systemsoriented mindset to identify issues query and analyze data and drive continuous improvement through rigorous testing and quality assurance. Partnering closely with IT engineering and business stakeholders you will ensure the product consistently meets user needs and supports supplier readiness at scale.

Why this role is exciting:

This is an opportunity to work on a highimpact product where improvements directly influence Caterpillars supply base performance and longterm growth strategy. The work you will do daily directly supports the companys ability to scale and grow by ensuring suppliers have the tools needed to meet future demand. This role blends product ownership with handson data analysis quality assurance and systemslevel problem solving.

What you will do:

• Own and prioritize the product backlog for a critical supply planning digital product ensuring alignment with business priorities and supplier readiness goals.

• Improve product quality and usability by identifying systemic issues analyzing root causes and driving corrective actions.

• Query and analyze data (including Snowflake and similar data platforms) to support troubleshooting validation and product decisionmaking.

• Lead quality assurance testing and user acceptance testing (UAT) activities to ensure solutions meet functional and usability expectations.

• Manage software change requests by clearly defining scope impacts risks and acceptance criteria.

• Partner with IT engineering and business stakeholders to resolve issues using a systemic endtoend approach rather than point fixes.

• Serve as a key liaison between technical teams and business users translating complex findings into clear actionable insights.

• Support continuous improvement of digital capabilities that enable Caterpillars supply base to scale with future demand.

What skills you will have:

• Business Analysis: Ability to identify business needs analyze data and recommend solutions that deliver measurable value.

• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Strong analytical judgment to evaluate tradeoffs identify root causes and resolve complex product issues.

• Effective Communications: Ability to clearly communicate findings priorities and decisions across technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Software Change Request Management: Experience managing product change requests from intake through validation and deployment.

• User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Ability to design execute and evaluate testing strategies to ensure product quality and usability.

Top candidates will also have:

• Degree in engineering or business and/or certifications in a supply chain management area of focus

• Experience querying and analyzing data using Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms.

• Handson experience with quality assurance testing and troubleshooting in digital product environments.

• Background in IT or software development with an understanding of how digital products are built and supported.

• Strong systems thinking ability to diagnose issues across data process and technology layers.

• Experience supporting enterprise or supplychainrelated digital tools.

• Familiarity with Agile product development environments and product management tools (e.g. Azure DevOps Jira).

Additional Information

• The location for this position is Mossville IL or Irving TX.

• Domestic relocation assistance is not available for this position.

• Sponsorship is not available for this position

• This position may require up to 10-15% travel.

Summary Pay Range:

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors job level market locationjob-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

Posting Dates:

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. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.

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