Career Area:

Strategy

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.

Role Definition

• Acting with servant-leader mindset and project management expertise will be key enablers as you and the team deliver on our business partners' key business objectives.

What You will Do:

• Effectively translate a desired business outcome into an actionable, achievable, and team-aligned plan that delivers per expectations.
• Oversee project processes and procedures, monitoring the productivity and performance of project team.
• Managing all aspects of projects. Setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of project.
• Coach and mentor other Project Managers.
• Ensuring adherence to project methodologies and best practices.
• Preparing and presenting program level reporting for stakeholders.
• Demonstrate strong leadership within the team and assigned projects, providing excellent support and coaching.

Consideration for Top Candidates:

• Minimum 7 years’ experience leading large and complex projects with significant technical components and/or ERP implementations, major upgrades, and/or deployments
• Strong practical understanding of project management fundamentals, best practices and methodologies
• Strong background in IT systems and processes, with the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Previous experience in working with both Agile and Waterfall mythology teams.
• Project Management Professional certification (PMP)

Skill Required:

Project Management: Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Level Expert:
• Champions organization's project management methodology, tools, and techniques.
• Manages multiple high-risk, high-cost projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Coaches others in open communication among project stakeholders.
• Monitors major projects for critical path and actual status versus planned.
• Consults on project planning and management of high-risk, high-impact projects.
• Monitors industry for fresh approaches and tools for project management.

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.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Develops, refines, and communicates tactical plans for own responsibilities.
• Ensures attention to the detail and dependencies of active and planned projects.
• Plans for allocation of resources in line with portfolio and project needs.

Relationship Management: Knowledge of relationship management techniques; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Maintains productive, long-term relationships with business partners and delivery teams.
• Creates opportunities to educate delivery teams on business priorities.
• Facilitates effective expectation management.
• Empowers others to establish collaborative, healthy relationships.

Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
• Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.

Flexibility and Adaptability: Knowledge of successful approaches and techniques for dealing with change; ability to adapt to a changing environment and be comfortable with change.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Makes progress in an atmosphere of ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Creates processes with provisions to accommodate change.
• Helps others adapt to changing environments and accept new situations.
• Works effectively with unstructured teams, situations, or environments.

Influencing: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
Level Extensive Experience:
• Leads and presents collaborative assessments that persuasively influence decision makers.
• Advises on techniques to build rapport and commitment to common purpose.
• Determines and leverages the decision-making style of the individual or group being influenced.
• Delivers well-received presentations of cost, benefits, risks, and other considerations.

Degree Requirement:

• A 4-year college or university degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study.

Additional Information:

• This role is a hybrid position and would require any successful candidate to commit to a 3 day per week in office requirement.

Relocation is available for this position.

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:

August 15, 2024 - August 22, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.   

EEO/AA Employer.  All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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