Caterpillar, Inc

Lead Digital Strategy Manager

Caterpillar, Inc$128K — $192K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in project management and digital strategy
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to make data-driven decisions
  • Proven ability to manage cross-functional teams and navigate complex structures
  • Experience in stakeholder engagement and effective communication
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver projects on time and within scope
  • Knowledge of project administration best practices and governance routines
  • Capability to identify opportunities for process improvement

Responsibilities

  • Manage day-to-day activities of digital project delivery while ensuring stakeholder alignment
  • Develop and implement contingency plans for risks associated with project delivery
  • Clarify competing priorities and support data-driven decision-making
  • Partner with leadership to translate strategic goals into actionable project roadmaps
  • Monitor project outcomes to ensure compliance with quality standards
  • Shape and maintain cross-functional operating rhythms to optimize resource allocation
  • Promote a culture of strategic thinking across teams and projects

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous paid time off, including vacation and holidays
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match
  • Flexible spending accounts and health savings account options
  • Employee assistance program and wellness initiatives
  • Tuition reimbursement for continued education
  • Incentive bonuses and opportunities for career development
  • Life insurance and disability benefits
  • Parental leave and adoption benefits
Full Job Description
Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Job Summary:

The Digital Adoption and Customer Success (DACS) team within Cat Digital is in search for a Lead Digital Strategy Manager. They will be responsible for strategizing, project managing, and helping to execute strategic priorities and projects across complex, cross-functional initiatives and teams. This position works in close partnership with leadership, the engagement team, and product multi-stakeholders to align organizational priorities, strengthen operational rhythms, and drive structured oversight of multiple complex digital projects to completion.

What You Will Do:
  • 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


What You Will Have:
  • 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, including sequencing delivery milestones with stakeholder engagement and adoption activities.
  • Project Administration: Knowledge of project administration best practices and ability to use organizational strategies, practices and tools for administering projects, including governance routines and communication cadences.
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment, facilitating timely decisions across business and technical stakeholders.
  • Project Control and Reporting: Knowledge of project control and reporting; ability to monitor the vital signs of a project while managing its progress and delivery schedule, including surfacing risks that may affect stakeholder readiness and adoption.
  • Project Management: Knowledge of project management; ability to plan, organize, monitor and control projects using appropriate technical resources, partnering with engagement/change resources to enable successful rollout and value realization.
  • Standards, Procedures & Policies: Knowledge of standards and policies; ability to utilize a variety of administrative skill sets and technical knowledge to manage organizational policies, standards, and procedures, ensuring project governance aligns with enterprise expectations and stakeholder commitments.


Considerations for Top Candidates:
  • 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.


Summary Pay Range:

$128,470.00 - $192,710.00

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

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:
June 29, 2026 - July 5, 2026

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Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar company, is one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services worldwide. Since its acquisition by Caterpillar Inc. in 2006, Progress Rail has used the Caterpillar international footprint to gain quick and widespread notice and approval across the globe. Product technology, reliability and durability, along with legendary aftermarket parts and service support, have been their keys to success. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The technology and world reach of Caterpillar, combined with the service standard and historical reliability of Progress Rail, ensures their products and services make a growing impact on the world rail industry. With their acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), Progress Rail is the world's largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications including freight, intercity passenger, commuter, switching, industrial and mining. EMD is also a global provider of diesel power engines for marine propulsion, offshore and land based oil well drilling rigs and stationary power generation. Electro-Motive is the only diesel engine manufacturer of its size to have produced more than 70,000 engines. This success stems from product reliability, serviceability, load acceptance capability, low operating costs and ease of maintenance with standardized components.

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Size
107,700 employees
Market Cap
$125.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1925
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$41.7 billion
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