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Job Summary:

The Portfolio Manager (Autonomy) runs the day-to-day Portfolio operating system for Construction Autonomy and the broader CI portfolio. This role integrates roadmap, governance, financial, dependency, partner, and executive-review inputs into clear decisions, controlled changes, accountable actions, and closure. The Portfolio Manager coordinates the Portfolio teams operating work across demand, reporting, governance, analysis, and cross-mission execution.

What You Will Do:

• Run the Portfolio operating rhythm, including review readiness, integrated agendas, decision paths, action closure, and escalation follow-through.
• Maintain the integrated portfolio roadmap and governance view across Objectives, Customer Market Requirements, Epics, Features, Milestones, dependencies, evidence, baselines, forecasts, and controlled changes.
• Integrate inputs from Product Management, TPMs, Mission Leads, the RTE, Architecture, Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Communications, and external partners into decision-ready portfolio views.
• Operate Financial Governance reviews and closure, using authoritative financial, SOW, supplier, forecast, funding, and invoice information prepared by Finance and the Finance Program Manager.
• Lead delegated cross-domain and external-dependency orchestration, ensuring material impacts are connected to milestones, decisions, owners, escalation paths, and closure evidence.
• Coordinate deployment and continuous improvement of the Portfolio Operating Model, Ways of Working interfaces, governance standards, and controlled documentation.
• Provide integrated roadmap, capacity, risk, dependency, partner, and financial implications for prioritization and start-stop-continue-defer recommendations.
• Prepare concise executive decision narratives, scenarios, and review packages; represent the Portfolio function in delegated forums and escalate material tradeoffs.
• Direct and coordinate Portfolio team work, protect clear accountability, and ensure recurring work transfers from temporary bridges to named owners.

What You Will Have:

• Planning: Tactical and Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and the ability to connect near-term operating plans, multi-year roadmaps, resources, dependencies, and business objectives.
• Program and Portfolio Management: Knowledge of practices used to organize, govern, monitor, and integrate multiple complex digital programs and interdependent workstreams.
• Project Administration: Ability to establish operating discipline, maintain decision and action traceability, resolve conflicts, and ensure work follows defined governance processes.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Ability to evaluate incomplete or conflicting information, frame options and consequences, and drive timely, evidence-based decisions.
• Organizational Leadership: Ability to coordinate diverse teams, assign clear ownership, influence across organizational boundaries, and deputize effectively for senior leadership.
• Change Control: Knowledge of processes used to identify, evaluate, approve, communicate, monitor, and document material changes to scope, sequence, funding, milestones, and commitments.
• Project Control and Reporting: Ability to integrate roadmap, delivery, financial, risk, dependency, and partner information into concise, credible reporting and executive decision support.

Top Candidates Will Have:

• Experience leading portfolio or program governance across multiple technical teams, programs, suppliers, or partner organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to build and run an operating rhythm that produces decisions, accountable actions, controlled changes, escalation, and closure.
• Experience integrating technical delivery, roadmap, capacity, financial, procurement, and partner information for senior-leadership decisions.
• Ability to operate at both executive and working-team altitudes without absorbing accountability that belongs to Product, TPM, Mission Lead, Architecture, Engineering, Finance, or the RTE.
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps, Power BI, or comparable portfolio and work-management tools, including traceability, dependency, and reporting concepts.
• Strong written and verbal communication, sound judgment, and the ability to simplify complex cross-functional issues into clear options and recommendations.

Additional Details:

• This position requires the candidate towork full-time onsite at the Irving, TX office (Dallas)
• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position.
• Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this position

Summary Pay Range:

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

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