Transformation Senior Program Manager

Caterpillar Inc.•Irving, TX

1d•Onsite

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. About EPD: Caterpillar's Electric Power Division (EPD) offers integrated solutions, parts, and services to meet the needs of our various commercial and industrial electric power customers. EPD supports a wide range of customer applications across the globe, including providing back-up power to hospitals, providing emergency power when natural disasters strike, and supporting critical infrastructure for data centers, municipalities, and more. With a rich history of more than 95 years in the electric power business, our team has world-class expertise and a proven ability to adapt to changing demands. We’re committed to providing sustainable and reliable solutions to our customers. Join our team to help build a better, more sustainable world for future generations! Job Summary: Caterpillar’s Electric Power Division has an exciting opportunity as a Transformation Senior Program Manager. The Senior Program Manager will lead multiple initiatives to transform the Large Electric Power Solutions businesses. These initiatives will be complex and large with a focus on efficiency gains.

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. Level Extensive Experience: Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities. Provides the right level of detail as input for strategic plan development. Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan. Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of existing departmental-level plans. Plans for allocation of resources in line with unit goals, technical and business objectives. Ensures the planning process is integrated with the overall business plan.
Flexibility and Adaptability: Knowledge of successful approaches and techniques for dealing with change; ability to adapt to a changing environment and be comfortable with change. Level Extensive Experience: Creates processes with provisions to accommodate change. Helps others adapt to changing environments and accept new situations. Recovers from disappointments and setbacks. Works effectively with unstructured teams, situations, or environments. Leverages prior experience as a help towards handling changing situations. Make progress in an atmosphere of ambiguity and uncertainty.
Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization. Level Extensive Experience: Achieves influence and impact even when holding a position contrary to the majority. Discards examples of persuasive arguments lacking substance or impact. Leads and presents collaborative assessments that persuasively influence decision makers. Advises on techniques to build rapport and commitment to common purpose. Determines and leverages the decision-making style of the individual or group being influenced. Delivers well-received presentations of cost, benefits, risks, and other considerations.
Managing Multiple Priorities: Knowledge of effective self-management practices; ability to manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation. Level Extensive Experience: Clarifies and handles multiple concurrent and diverse activities. Shifts focus among several efforts as required by changing priorities. Addresses potential conflicts that impact current delivery commitments. Works with or leads others to re-prioritize work and reschedule commitments as necessary. Responds to shifting priorities while maintaining progress of regularly scheduled work. Demonstrates an expectation that there will be ongoing shifts in demands and priorities.
Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives. Level Expert: Champions organization's project management methodology, tools, and techniques. Manages multiple high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders. Coaches others in open communication among project stakeholders. Monitors major projects for critical path and actual status versus planned. Consults on project planning and management of high-risk, high-impact projects. Monitors industry for fresh approaches and tools for project management.
Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project. Level Extensive Experience: Plays an active or leading role in recording and storing requirement documents in various forms. Ensures the successful completion of all major activities, tasks and deliverables pertaining to the requirement analysis stage. Supervises the advanced use of requirements analysis tools and services, including prototyping and use cases. Produces detailed functional and information requirements models and documentation. Trains others on requirements walkthroughs and quality reviews. Utilizes automated diagramming tools to ensure traceability of requirements.

Nice To Haves

Experience within the Electric Power Industry.
Degree or equivalent experience desired.
Leadership of significant business transformation.

Responsibilities

In-depth initial planning to educate the team on the objectives of the projects and deliver a realistic plan to make commitments to the business.
Overseeing project processes and procedures; monitoring the productivity and performance of project team.
Managing all aspects of projects.
Setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of project.
Reviewing and ensuring adherence to project materials, deliverables methodologies and procedures.
Lead the project teams to act with urgency and think creatively to execute projects.
Lead the project teams through changing priorities and requirements.
Extensive value stream mapping.
Preparing and presenting program level reporting for upper management.