Hybrid Lead Digital Project Manager

at Caterpillar Inc.

• Job title: Lead Digital Project Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $128,470 - $192,710 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Lead Digital Project Manager at Caterpillar overseeing complex digital projects. Managing project teams and ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the planning, organization and implementation of multiple and complex digital projects
• Manage all aspects of a project to ensure implementation, acceptance, and completion within a set deadline
• Plan and monitor project development to ensure 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

Requirements

• Extensive experience in the policies and techniques to manage a set of related projects within a program
• Extensive experience in project management
• Extensive experience in decision-making process and tools
• Extensive experience in change control processes
• Extensive experience in problem management processes
• 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
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, Confluence, Power BI, Microsoft Project, or equivalent tools
• Excellent interpersonal skills to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or influence others.

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