Principal Digital Program Manager

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Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar yourejoining 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 dontjust 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.

Provides enterpriselevel program and delivery orchestration across multiple complex digital initiatives. Owns integration of execution planning dependency management delivery cadence and portfolio health to ensure predictable scalable delivery outcomes.

This role institutionalizes delivery discipline so the organization scales through structure reuse and delivery flownot heroics or leaderspecific intervention.

What You Will Do:

Enterprise Delivery Orchestration
Own endtoend delivery orchestration across multiple solutions and workstreams.
Integrate schedules dependencies risks assumptions and issues into a single execution system.
Enforce sequencing stage gates and delivery cadence across the portfolio.

Portfolio Management & Visibility
Maintain a consolidated view of demand capacity and delivery flow.
Surface crosssolution tradeoffs bottlenecks and sequencing decisions early.
Enable leadership decisions based on systemlevel impact rather than local optimization.

Change Management (Integrated)
Govern cumulative change impact readiness and saturation risk across initiatives.
Identify where change collides with delivery capacity or adoption readiness.
Sequence change to protect delivery throughput and operational stability.

Project Leader Governance & Coaching
Act as PMofPMs for Digital Project Managers (SG2324).
Establish delivery standards execution cadence and escalation discipline.
Coach project leaders on enterpriselevel dependency management risk posture and delivery judgment.

DevOps & Delivery Governance
Govern delivery effectiveness using outcomebased measures such as cycle time stability and rework.
Identify where process tooling or governance reduces delivery flow.
Ensure DevOps practices enable speed and quality without unnecessary overhead.

Optimization: Cost Out Effectiveness Up
Identify rework bespoke delivery patterns and inefficient use of senior talent.
Recommend structural sequencing and governance improvements.
Drive cost efficiency through reuse flow optimization and discipline by design.

What You Have:

Planning: Tactical Strategic Level: Extensive Experience

• Integrates tactical execution plans with multiyear portfolio sequencing.
• Plans capacity dependencies and delivery flow across multiple initiatives.
• Aligns execution plans with enterprise priorities and funding decisions.
• Designs delivery plans that scale without increasing seniorleader dependency.
• Project Administration Level: Extensive Experience
• Governs execution across multiple projects and workstreams.
• Consolidates milestones RAID and delivery signals into a single execution view.
• Establishes consistent communication and escalation rhythms. Ensures execution discipline is applied consistently across the portfolio.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking Level: Extensive Experience

• Evaluates crossinitiative tradeoffs involving schedule capacity and risk.
• Anticipates secondorder impacts of execution decisions.
• Advises leaders on sequencing resourcing and dependency resolution.
• Applies situational decision approaches to unblock delivery flow.

Data Gathering and Reporting Level: Extensive Experience

• Defines execution health metrics and leading delivery indicators.
• Consolidates projectlevel data into portfoliolevel insights.
• Enables factbased leadership decisions with minimal reporting noise.
• Ensures accuracy consistency and actionability of delivery reporting.

Implementation Level: Extensive Experience

• Coordinates crossinitiative readiness for major releases and deployments.
• Ensures implementation activities are sequenced to protect operational stability.
• Resolves execution conflicts impacting release quality or timing.

IT Project Control and Reporting Level: Extensive Experience

• Controls and monitors execution across multiple IT projects as a program.
• Applies appropriate levels of rigor based on risk complexity and maturity.
• Consolidates delivery performance into a trusted leadership view.
• Uses milestonebased and earnedvalue controls where appropriate.

IT Project Management Level: Extensive Experience

• Ensures delivery commitments are met across initiatives.
• Aligns technical execution with functional delivery objectives.
• Prevents systemic delivery failures through sequencing and flow design.
• Improves predictability and consistency of execution outcomes.

IT Standards Procedures & Policies Level: Extensive Experience

• Defines and enforces delivery governance cadence and execution standards.
• Evolves execution standards based on portfolio learning.
• Ensures standards scale across solutions without increasing overhead.

Measures of Success

• Improved delivery predictability and reduced escalation noise
• Consistent execution quality across projects and project managers
• Reduced rework and bespoke delivery
• Improved cost efficiency without throughput degradation
• Clear factbased portfolio insights for leadership

Additional Info:

• The location for this role is Irving TX or Peoria IL
• This position may require 20% travel.

About Caterpillar

For more than a century Caterpillar has helped build a better more sustainable world. With 2025 sales and revenues of $67.6 billion Caterpillar Inc. is shaping the future as the worlds leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment off-highway diesel and natural gas engines industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Backed by one of the largest independent global dealer networks and financing services through Cat Financial the companys primary business segments: Power & Energy Construction Industries and Resource Industries are solving customers toughest challenges through commercial excellence and advanced technology driven by a highly skilled dedicated global team. Learn more at .

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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