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Lead Digital Project Manager

Caterpillar

Caterpillar

Operations
Cary, NC, USA · Chicago, IL, USA · Peoria, IL, USA · Irving, TX, USA
USD 126k-189k / year
Posted on May 30, 2025

Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

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.

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:

The Shop Experience on cat.com team, as part of the Digital Marketing Enablement team within Cat Digital, manages a large, complex program that is expanding at an accelerated pace across 5 divisions. As the Shop Experience becomes a competitive advantage for Caterpillar, the Lead Digital Project Manager will ensure alignment across all functional teams while serving as a partner to the Application Engineering Program Manager.

What You Will Do:

  • Coordination and communication with key partners and stakeholders from across the enterprise including specific business units, digital program management, app engineering, brand, and other platforms.

  • Ensure dependencies within our team and across the enterprise are properly tracked and inform roadmaps and project plans.

  • Partner with the Application Engineering Program Manager to ensure our stakeholders are engaged and informed of program progress, status, and securing business approvals as necessary.

  • Demonstrates the value and necessity of linking tactical plans to overall strategic plan.

  • Use data to analyze and measure project performance and success.

  • Monitor and mitigate risks to the business to ensure projects stay on track.

  • Assist program Strategist and Business Product Owner with planning and backlog management.

  • Managing the day-to-day activities of Shop alignment across teams, including overseeing project responsibilities and schedules. Developing contingency plans for potential business risks.

  • Evaluating and managing Governance deliverables to ensure that service expectations are achievable, developed, and met.

  • Monitoring Shop results to stay aligned to business goals.

  • Ensuring adherence to product compliance, Enterprise Digital Marketing Standards, and quality standards and processes.

  • Assist business partners with intake process and monitoring status of requests.

What You Will Have:

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.
Project Administration: Knowledge of project administration best practices and ability to use organizational strategies, practices and tools for administering projects.
Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Implementation: Knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end-users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design).

Considerations For Top Candidates:

  • A college or university degree or certification that is equivalent OR equivalent working experience

  • Related professional experience, analyzing business, systems, and user processes

  • Experience with the Aha! Platform.is a plus

  • Strong customer and user focus, relationship management and ability to collaborate across a matrix organization

  • Previous technical experience with Adobe Experience Manager Sites, and/or HCL Commerce, and/or ONE

  • Previous experience with Agile methodologies and working with a cross-functional team

  • Effective communication and presentation skills, both oral and written

  • Familiarity with project management methodologies

  • Azure DevOps

  • Figma experience

  • Broad understanding of Caterpillar’s organization

  • Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization

  • Visual modeling of complex concepts into simple pictures

  • Advanced knowledge in generating business and technical process documentation

  • Ability to create a shared understanding of the problem, opportunity, options, alternatives, and designs with the team

  • Collaborating with offshore third-party global partners

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.

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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:

$126,000.00 - $189,000.00

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:

May 29, 2025 - June 6, 2025

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.

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