Principal Digital Program Manager

Caterpillar•Chicago, IL

64d

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. Job Summary: Provide Program Management support for Digital Platform projects. Includes responsibility for planning, prioritization, and monitoring delivery of new platform content. What you will do: The Program Manager is accountable for ensuring successful completion of projects, on-time, within budget, and error-free. The principal responsibility of the Program Manager is to manage the planning and execution of project team members. The incumbent will be responsible for managing the project charter, communications, metrics, reporting, and the overall project plan and budget.

Requirements

Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Data Gathering and Reporting: Knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.
IT Project Management: Knowledge of project management; ability to plan, organize, monitor and control IT projects using appropriate technical resources.

Nice To Haves

10+ years of direct project management experience working with software engineering teams in an agile environment
Excellent interpersonal skills are required to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or influence others inside and outside the department to take specific actions.
PMP certification preferred
Working knowledge of Confluence
Working knowledge of MS Azure DevOps
Advance knowledge of Excel, MS PowerPoint, and MS Project
Knowledge of Power BI is highly desirable

Responsibilities

Apply prior Project Management experience and business acumen to coordinate the efforts of cross functional teams.
Define program scope with program success indicators to reap benefits of the program within a defined timeframe.
Prioritize program requirements working with Product managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders.
Incumbent will manage multiple cross-teams' dependencies, ensuring alignment to a project delivery date.
Develop and produce project management schedules.
Use professional project management tools and techniques to manage reporting, tracking charts, checklist, and project scheduling software and to delegate appropriately.
Manage change and take active leadership in timely decision making.
Manage schedules that reflect detailed information related to the changes, including effected components and functions, issues, risks, timelines for various stages of project completion, cost, etc.
Will work with the individual team members from multiple functional disciplines and customers to establish completion dates.
Monitor progress of projects, discusses problems with affected areas, assures appropriate personnel are informed of problem and steps are in place to meet schedules.
Depending on nature of problems, expected to recommend possible solutions and alternatives.
Provide regular reports to senior management.