Principal Digital Product Owner – Supply Planning

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As a Principal Digital Product Owner Supply Planning you will strengthen Caterpillars supply planning digital portfolio by shaping and supporting a missioncritical product used across global supply planning operations. You will serve as a product owner and subject matter expert ensuring strong data governance data quality and consistent usage to enable scalable supplier readiness and longterm growth.

This role blends strategic product ownership with handson analysis. You will translate business needs into clear requirements improve product usability and performance and develop customerfacing documentation training and support materials. Applying a strong analytical and systems mindset you will partner closely with IT engineering and business stakeholders to deliver endtoend solutionsnot point fixesthat drive measurable value.

What makes this role exciting:

This is an opportunity to work on a highimpact digital product where improvements directly influence Caterpillars supply base performance and longterm growth strategy. Your work will support the companys ability to scale by ensuring suppliers have reliable welldesigned tools to meet future demand. The role offers a unique combination of product ownership datadriven problem solving quality assurance and systemslevel thinking with visible impact across the enterprise.

What you will do:

• Own and prioritize the product backlog for a critical supply planning digital product aligning roadmaps to business priorities supplier readiness goals and globally consistent deployment.

• Partner with senior stakeholders and business users to collect Voice of the Business (VOB) and Voice of the Customer (VOC) define problems and translate needs into clear business requirements acceptance criteria and implementation plans.

• Query validate and analyze data (including Snowflake and similar platforms) to support troubleshooting product decisions and measurable improvements in data quality and consistency.

• Lead quality assurance testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by defining test scenarios validating outcomes and confirming usability and readiness for release.

• Manage software change requests from intake through deployment by defining scope impacts risks and release readiness criteria; track progress and outcomes through delivery.

• Collaborate with IT engineering project leaders and solution owners to design develop deploy and monitor supply network capabilities including process standardization configuration alignment and cost impacts.

• Drive continuous improvement by identifying systemic issues performing rootcause analysis recommending service and product enhancements and measuring adoption and performance postrelease.

• Develop and deliver required training coaching and user documentation to ensure successful deployment user adoption and sustained value from digital tools and platforms.

• Contribute to strategic initiatives by developing standardized best practices service offerings and supporting tools; serve as a technical representative for the discipline and present recommendations to senior leaders as needed.

What skills you will have:

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

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

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

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

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

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 deployed and supported.

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

• Experience supporting enterprise or supplychainrelated digital tools.

• Familiarity with Agile product development environments and tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.

Additional information:

• The location for this position is MossvilleILor Irving TX and requires on-site work five days a week.

• Domestic relocationassistanceisnotavailable for this position.

• Sponsorship isnotavailable for this position

• This position may require up to 1015% 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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