Lead Digital Strategy Manager

Caterpillar Inc.

Lead Digital Strategy Manager strategizing and executing initiatives for industry-leading digital solutions at Caterpillar. Collaborate with teams to drive multiple complex projects to completion.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timePeoria • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $128,470 - $192,710 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manages day-to-day project delivery activities, coordinating with the team on stakeholder alignment, communications, and change readiness.
Develops contingency plans for delivery, dependency, and adoption risks; escalates issues with clear options and impacts for business and technical stakeholders.
Clarifies competing priorities, supports data-driven decision making, and ensures momentum and accountability across complex digital engagement work
Partners with leadership to translate strategic objectives into actionable roadmaps, ensuring alignment between long-term vision and near-term execution
Evaluates and manages deliverables to ensure agreed outcomes are achievable, developed, and met; aligns delivery milestones with engagement, training, and rollout readiness plans provided by the team
Monitors project results for significant deviations; ensures adherence to quality standards and processes; incorporates stakeholder feedback and early adoption signals into delivery adjustments.
Shapes and maintains a cohesive operating rhythm, including the task to align cross-functional teams around shared outcomes, ensuring dependencies, trade-offs, and resource allocations are clearly understood and optimized
Champions a culture of strategic- thinking, encouraging teams to connect day- to day execution with broader business impact

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive experience in program/project management concepts including project charters, scheduling and milestones, scope management, risk/issue management, governance and reporting
Proven ability to engage stakeholders and communicate effectively, with a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration.
Strong leadership presence, able to motivate teams, hold them accountable to commitments, and drive clarity and momentum in ambiguous situations.
Strong cross‑functional collaborator, comfortable navigating multiple partners (internal and external) and resolving issues that span business, product, and engineering.
Highly organized, detail‑driven, and structured, with a track record of managing backlogs, schedules, risks, and dependencies across multiple teams.
Demonstrated experience building or refining delivery processes, with the ability to create predictable, efficient, and scalable ways of working that align to PMO standards
Ability to identify and incubate new opportunities, including process improvements, capability gaps, and innovation initiatives that drive business growth.
Strong storytelling skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, compelling narratives tailored for a variety of audience types
Proven ability to lead through change, including driving adoption of new processes, tools, or organizational shifts.

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 ChartersSchedulingScope ManagementRisk ManagementGovernanceReportingBacklog ManagementDelivery ProcessesChange ManagementData-Driven Decision Making

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationMotivational LeadershipDetail-Driven OrganizationStorytelling SkillsStrategic Thinking