Principal Digital Program Manager

Caterpillar Inc.

Principal Digital Program Manager orchestrating multiple complex digital initiatives at Caterpillar. Responsible for delivery orchestration, change management, and coaching project leaders.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeIrving • Illinois, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $147,760 - $221,640 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive Experience in Planning: Tactical, Strategic
Extensive Experience in Project Administration
Extensive Experience in Decision Making and Critical Thinking
Extensive Experience in Data Gathering and Reporting
Extensive Experience in Implementation
Extensive Experience in IT Project Control and Reporting
Extensive Experience in IT Project Management
Extensive Experience in IT Standards, Procedures & Policies

Benefits

Comp & perks

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*

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementdelivery orchestrationrisk managementdependency managementchange managementDevOps practicesdata gatheringreportingimplementationIT project control

Soft Skills

decision makingcritical thinkingcoachingleadershiporganizational skillscommunicationproblem solvingstrategic planningtactical planningescalation discipline