Enterprise Deployments - Sr. IT Manager

Caterpillar Inc.•East Peoria, IL

3d•$172,630 - $258,950•Onsite

About The Position

The Enterprise Deployments Senior IT Manager leads Caterpillar’s enterprise capability for large-scale deployments and ERP modernization across manufacturing plants and supporting functions, with SAP implementations as the primary landscape. The role accelerates deployments from planning through business outcomes and provides direction, challenge, and coaching to program and project managers and cross-functional teams. It builds a disciplined organization that can execute multiple complex deployments through clear governance, repeatable methods, transparent risk management, and strong site readiness. The manager serves as a trusted advisor to Caterpillar leaders and guides enterprise practices for SAP change management, release management, environment management, data migration, testing, development, and key-user training. The position leads a global, multi-sourced organization of leaders and specialists and is based onsite in East Peoria, Illinois, five days per week. Relocation is available for qualified candidates; visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

Demonstrated success leading complex ERP or large-scale enterprise system implementations across multiple sites, business units, or regions.
Experience directing senior program, project, functional, technical, data, testing, change, or release leaders in a matrixed environment.
Experience collaborating across a matrixed organization to drive enterprise priorities, build alignment, and deliver business outcomes.
Ability to foster collaboration across business functions, technology teams, and external partners while balancing stakeholder needs, resolving conflicts, and promoting shared accountability.
Strong understanding of manufacturing operations and the disciplines required to introduce major technology changes without compromising safety, quality, delivery, or continuity.
Practical command of program governance, integrated planning, cutover, hypercare, organizational change, release management, data migration, testing, and software development lifecycle controls.
Ability to communicate complex delivery conditions clearly, frame decisions and tradeoffs, challenge constructively, and align senior business and technology stakeholders.
Experience managing systems integrators, software partners, and multi-sourced delivery teams, including accountability for outcomes, knowledge transfer, and value.
History of developing leaders, creating high-performing teams, establishing succession pipelines, and institutionalizing durable enterprise capability.
Ability to work onsite five days a week.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Nice To Haves

SAP deployment experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Continuously improve the enterprise deployment framework, governance, playbooks, quality gates, and performance measures.
Manage the implementation roadmap and capacity plan, and guide sequencing, mobilization, interdependencies, resource planning, and escalation across concurrent programs.
Provide executives with fact-based insight into readiness, risk, decisions, tradeoffs, and recovery actions.
Lead, coach, and hold program and project management leaders accountable for complex, multi-workstream implementations.
Establish expectations for integrated plans, critical-path management, financial stewardship, dependency control, status transparency, issue resolution, and benefits transition.
Create an operating cadence across business, site, product, platform, architecture, security, infrastructure, data, and supplier teams.
Intervene when execution is off track, align leaders on recovery plans, and protect committed business outcomes.
Guide organizational change management and site readiness through stabilization, ensuring leaders, users, processes, training, and support are prepared for go-live.
Promote site-centered deployment methods that respect manufacturing constraints while maintaining enterprise standards and template integrity.
Ensure operational readiness criteria are explicit, measurable, independently challenged, and tied to go/no-go decisions.
Incorporate implementation feedback into future waves, playbooks, estimates, and deployments.
Guide release management across build, test, training, mock cutover, production, and stabilization landscapes.
Coordinate release plans, environment calendars, refreshes, transports, integrations, security, infrastructure, and business events end to end.
Sponsor integrated cutover planning, rehearsals, command-center operations, defect triage, hypercare, and transition to steady-state support.
Advance automation, observability, repeatability, and control to improve release quality and reduce deployment risk.
Direct data migration strategy and execution, including ownership, cleansing, mapping, conversion, reconciliation, mock cycles, controls, and business signoff.
Direct the large-deployment testing center of excellence, strengthening test strategy, tooling, automation, traceability, defect management, performance validation, and entry/exit criteria.
Ensure process, integration, regression, security, performance, user acceptance, and operational readiness testing are planned as one quality system.
Use evidence-based quality measures to make risks visible and support objective deployment decisions.
Guide SAP development engineering standards, governance, code quality, documentation, and technical assurance.
Align development practices with architecture, cybersecurity, integration, data, release, and support requirements.
Build internal capability and use systems integrators and suppliers selectively, with accountability for knowledge transfer and sustainable ownership.
Reduce unnecessary customization and technical debt by reinforcing standard solutions, design simplicity, and lifecycle accountability.
Lead a global, multi-sourced organization of leaders and specialists across deployment management and supporting functions.
Hire, develop, coach, and retain high-performing leaders; establish succession plans and development for critical deployment roles.
Create a culture of enterprise-first decisions, respectful challenge, ownership, learning, and innovation.
Hold partners and systems integrators accountable for outcomes, quality, transparency, capability transfer, and commercial commitments.