Lead Digital Project Manager

Caterpillar Inc.•Peoria, IL

About The Position

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining 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 don't just 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. Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. Cat Digital is the digital and technology arm of Caterpillar Inc., leveraging the latest technologies to build industry leading digital solutions for our customers and dealers. With over 1.5 million connected assets worldwide, our teams use data, technology, advanced analytics, telematics, and AI capabilities to help our customers build a better, more sustainable world. Job Summary: Oversee the planning, organization and implementation of multiple and complex digital projects. What You Will Do: Application Engineering Program Management Team at Cat Digital manages project teams comprised of digital resources, marketing resources, business resources, and others tasked with developing and maintaining marketing & digital solutions used by Caterpillar dealers and customers. This position will oversee the planning, organization and implementation of multiple highly complex digital projects. What You Will Do: As a Lead Digital Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in enabling engineering delivery across complex cross-functional project teams Your contributions will include driving transparency, fostering collaboration, and supporting continuous improvement to deliver high-quality capabilities on time and within scope Manage all aspects of a project to ensure the project is implemented, accepted, and accomplished within a set deadline. Plan and monitor project development to ensure that quality standards are achieved. Drive project cadence and delivery, ensuring milestones and dependencies stay on track Model exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement, providing clear updates, decisions, and alignment across cross‑functional teams Drive team accountability, reinforcing commitments, removing blockers, and maintaining focus on outcomes Maintain high organizational discipline, managing backlogs, schedules, risks, and documentation in alignment with PMO standards Facilitate cross‑functional collaboration, building strong relationships across business, technical, and partner teams Design, implement, and reinforce delivery processes and standards that improve efficiency, strengthen predictability, and ensure consistent alignment with Application PMO practices across the project. What You Will Have: Program Management: Extensive experience in the policies and techniques to manage a set of related projects within a program; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control the set of projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve program objectives. Project Management, Control and Reporting: Extensive experience in project management; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control digital software development projects using appropriate technical resources; creating and maintaining reports, dashboards, and other data visualization tools to communicate findings to stakeholders and executive leadership team. Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Extensive experience in decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment. Change Control: Extensive experience in the processes and procedures by which a change is identified, evaluated, approved, monitored, and documented; Ability to manage changes in the production environment and processes effectively. Problem Management: Extensive experience in the processes involved in problem control, error control during software development; ability to identify the root cause of problems in a timely and accurate manner and bring them to a successful resolution. Consideration for Top Candidates: Extensive program management leadership experience working with software engineering teams in an agile environment (typically 8+ years). Experience leading and coaching Project Managers (typically 3+ years). Experience delivering complex cross-functional digital projects in matrixed organizations. Proven experience with project management concepts including project charters, scheduling and planning projects and successful completion. Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, Confluence, Power BI, Microsoft Project, or equivalent tools. Excellent interpersonal skills are required to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or influence others inside and outside the department to take specific actions. Should have strong project management skills, team leadership skills, excellent communication skills, strong analytical and organizational skills. What You Will Get: Working with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies. We’ve created an inclusive environment for you to explore your passions, make an impact and do the work that really matters. Join Us. About Caterpillar Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed to and contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed. This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job. At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization. It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Summary Pay Range: $128,470.00 - $192,710.00 Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-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 Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers. Posting Dates: February 12, 2026 - February 20, 2026 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. Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community. There’s more to work at Caterpillar than just the work itself. We hire smart, friendly people and it shows in our culture. We hold ourselves to high standards and make sure our values of integrity, excellence, teamwork, commitment and sustainability come to life in the way we work. We make sure our employees feel continuously challenged while also supported. We provide professional growth opportunities, including leadership programs. We celebrate the diversity of our team, while also working together as one Caterpillar. Our culture, like everything at our company, is made possible by each employee’s contribution. Person by person, we create the environment we work in, and we are proud of the Caterpillar we’ve built.

Requirements

Program Management: Extensive experience in the policies and techniques to manage a set of related projects within a program; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control the set of projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve program objectives.
Project Management, Control and Reporting: Extensive experience in project management; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control digital software development projects using appropriate technical resources; creating and maintaining reports, dashboards, and other data visualization tools to communicate findings to stakeholders and executive leadership team.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Extensive experience in decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Change Control: Extensive experience in the processes and procedures by which a change is identified, evaluated, approved, monitored, and documented; Ability to manage changes in the production environment and processes effectively.
Problem Management: Extensive experience in the processes involved in problem control, error control during software development; ability to identify the root cause of problems in a timely and accurate manner and bring them to a successful resolution.

Nice To Haves

Extensive program management leadership experience working with software engineering teams in an agile environment (typically 8+ years).
Experience leading and coaching Project Managers (typically 3+ years).
Experience delivering complex cross-functional digital projects in matrixed organizations.
Proven experience with project management concepts including project charters, scheduling and planning projects and successful completion.
Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, Confluence, Power BI, Microsoft Project, or equivalent tools.
Excellent interpersonal skills are required to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or influence others inside and outside the department to take specific actions.
Should have strong project management skills, team leadership skills, excellent communication skills, strong analytical and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

Manage all aspects of a project to ensure the project is implemented, accepted, and accomplished within a set deadline.
Plan and monitor project development to ensure that quality standards are achieved.
Drive project cadence and delivery, ensuring milestones and dependencies stay on track
Model exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement, providing clear updates, decisions, and alignment across cross‑functional teams
Drive team accountability, reinforcing commitments, removing blockers, and maintaining focus on outcomes
Maintain high organizational discipline, managing backlogs, schedules, risks, and documentation in alignment with PMO standards
Facilitate cross‑functional collaboration, building strong relationships across business, technical, and partner teams
Design, implement, and reinforce delivery processes and standards that improve efficiency, strengthen predictability, and ensure consistent alignment with Application PMO practices across the project.