Principal Digital Program Manager

Caterpillar•Irving, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides enterprise-level 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 flow—not heroics or leader‑specific intervention.

Requirements

Extensive Experience in Planning: Tactical, Strategic
Integrates tactical execution plans with multi‑year 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 senior‑leader dependency.
Extensive Experience in Project Administration
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.
Extensive Experience in Decision Making and Critical Thinking
Evaluates cross‑initiative tradeoffs involving schedule, capacity, and risk.
Anticipates second‑order impacts of execution decisions.
Advises leaders on sequencing, resourcing, and dependency resolution.
Applies situational decision approaches to unblock delivery flow.
Extensive Experience in Data Gathering and Reporting
Defines execution health metrics and leading delivery indicators.
Consolidates project‑level data into portfolio‑level insights.
Enables fact‑based leadership decisions with minimal reporting noise.
Ensures accuracy, consistency, and actionability of delivery reporting.
Extensive Experience in Implementation
Coordinates cross‑initiative readiness for major releases and deployments.
Ensures implementation activities are sequenced to protect operational stability.
Resolves execution conflicts impacting release quality or timing.
Extensive Experience in IT Project Control and Reporting
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 milestone‑based and earned‑value controls where appropriate.
Extensive Experience in IT Project Management
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.
Extensive Experience in IT Standards, Procedures & Policies
Defines and enforces delivery governance, cadence, and execution standards.
Evolves execution standards based on portfolio learning.
Ensures standards scale across solutions without increasing overhead.

Nice To Haves

This position may require 20% travel.

Responsibilities

Own end‑to‑end 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.
Maintain a consolidated view of demand, capacity, and delivery flow.
Surface cross‑solution tradeoffs, bottlenecks, and sequencing decisions early.
Enable leadership decisions based on system‑level impact rather than local optimization.
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.
Act as PM‑of‑PMs for Digital Project Managers (SG23–24).
Establish delivery standards, execution cadence, and escalation discipline.
Coach project leaders on enterprise‑level dependency management, risk posture, and delivery judgment.
Govern delivery effectiveness using outcome‑based 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.
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.