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# Senior Digital Project Manager - Cat Central

- **Company:** Caterpillar
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $108,318.0 - $169,060.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Data Analysis, Performance Monitor
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/55D39C5C7336446BACC4FCAEFC9ECD73/job/

## About the Role

Planning (Tactical and Strategic): Experience translating business priorities into operational, tactical, and strategic plans. Develops integrated roadmaps that align scope, resources, milestones, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments; monitors progress and adapts plans as priorities change.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Demonstrated ability to analyze complex situations, organize relevant information, evaluate risks and alternatives, prioritize competing concerns, and make timely, informed decisions in ambiguous environments.

Data Gathering and Reporting: Experience overseeing data collection and analysis, validating information for accuracy, evaluating options, and translating complex project data into clear reports, insights, and recommendations for stakeholders and leadership.

Implementation: Demonstrated experience leading the implementation and adoption of digital capabilities, including technical and operational readiness, dealer or customer coordination, issue resolution, go-live support, user enablement, and post-deployment validation.

Digital Project Control and Reporting: Extensive experience monitoring project performance, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery schedules; adjusts plans, leads progress reviews, and communicates status, decisions, tradeoffs, and corrective actions.

Digital Project Management: Extensive experience leading complex digital projects, aligning technical and business goals, managing quality and governance, and directing cross-functional teams. Applies project management practices and tools to manage schedules, resources, deliverables, reporting, and corrective actions.

Effective Communications: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to provide concise status updates, communicate risks and decisions, and build trusted relationships with stakeholders and senior leaders.

Considerations for Top Candidates

 * Experience leading complex digital initiatives and global deployments across regions, markets, or dealer networks.
 * Ability to manage integrated plans covering scope, schedules, resources, dependencies, communications, risks, and contingencies.
 * Experience with dealer- or customer-facing deployments, including integration, readiness, implementation, adoption, go-live, and post-launch validation.
 * Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
 * Strong judgment, problem-solving, and risk management skills in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
 * Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery methods, project governance, and quality standards.
 * Proactive, ownership-driven approach to anticipating needs and resolving issues early.
 * Customer-focused, continuous-improvement mindset.

## Description

The Senior Digital Project Manager leads the end-to-end delivery and global deployment of complex digital initiatives across the eCommerce and Owner's Experience portfolio, with a primary focus on Cat Central. The role brings together cross-functional, regional, and dealer teams to manage risk, support readiness and adoption, and deliver strong business and customer outcomes.

Cat Central is Caterpillar's flagship digital experience that connects customers with their equipment, data, services, and support tools, helping them manage and optimize operations throughout the equipment lifecycle.

What You Will Do:

 * Lead the end-to-end planning, delivery, and global deployment of complex, high-visibility digital initiatives across multiple regions, markets, and dealer networks.
 * Develop and maintain integrated project and deployment plans, including scope, schedules, milestones, resources, dependencies, communications, and contingency plans.
 * Drive dealer-facing deployments for digital capabilities that require dealer integration or configuration, from readiness assessment through implementation and adoption.
 * Coordinate cross-functional teams across product, engineering, business, regional, and dealer organizations to align priorities, resolve issues, and deliver project outcomes.
 * Identify, assess, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies; monitor performance against plan and lead corrective action when needed.
 * Lead deployment readiness, release governance, go-live coordination, and post-deployment validation to ensure solutions meet quality, operational, and customer expectations.
 * Provide clear, timely updates to stakeholders and leadership on project status, decisions, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
 * Ensure adherence to project management practices, quality standards, and governance requirements throughout the project and deployment lifecycle.