Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Job Summary:
Cat Technology is seeking a Lead Digital Project Manager to lead portfolio operations, financial planning, workforce coordination, and business execution for a complex digital engineering organization. Working across engineering, product, architecture, simulation, infrastructure, Finance, and portfolio teams, this role delivers clear, actionable insights into financial performance, workforce capacity, operational metrics, and investment priorities.
In this role, you will coordinate established planning and governance processes, improve the accuracy and consistency of financial and operational reporting, and help leaders identify risks, opportunities, and decisions. You will combine project and program management, financial analysis, resource planning, and disciplined execution to help technical teams deliver effectively while reducing the administrative burden on engineering and product leaders.
What You Will Do:
Portfolio Governance and Reporting- Coordinate portfolio reviews and established governance cadences across one or more organizational portfolios.
- Translate roadmap, investment, delivery, workforce, and financial data into clear management summaries and decision materials.
- Maintain program metrics, dashboards, risks, issues, actions, decisions, and dependencies.
- Prepare concise materials for monthly, quarterly, and senior leadership reviews.
- Improve templates, reporting standards, controls, and repeatable business processes.
- Simplify or automate manual administrative and reporting activities to improve speed, consistency, and data quality.
Financial Planning and Analysis- Support portfolio forecasting, actual spending analysis, run-rate analysis, and recurring financial reporting.
- Collect, validate, and consolidate financial inputs from multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Coordinate monthly, quarterly, and annual planning cycles, ensuring that required inputs are complete and timely.
- Analyze variances and spending trends, identify root causes, and escalate material risks or data gaps.
- Develop rough-order-of-magnitude estimates, business cases, and investment assumptions.
- Prepare dashboards and leadership review materials that clearly explain changes, risks, decisions, and follow-up actions.
- Maintain accurate portfolio financial data, job code information, and supporting records.
Workforce Planning and Position Management- Coordinate workforce planning, position control, and hiring activities.
- Track planned positions, open roles, hiring status, onboarding progress, and changes to staffing assumptions.
- Maintain workforce data and coordinate updates with Human Resources, Finance, Business Resource Management, and hiring leaders.
- Prepare workforce reports that connect staffing plans with financial forecasts, capacity needs, and delivery priorities.
- Work with accountable stakeholders to resolve data inconsistencies and keep position information complete and current.
Cloud, Compute, and Technology Cost Management- Manage financial tracking for cloud, GPU, compute, software, infrastructure, and related technology investments.
- Support forecasting, utilization reporting, reservation planning, cost tagging, and program allocation or chargeback activities.
- Partner with technical and financial stakeholders to improve visibility into commitments, demand, utilization, and spending trends.
- Develop forward-looking cost views that inform portfolio planning and technology investment decisions.
Capital, Purchasing, and Asset Coordination- Coordinate the information required to prepare, review, approve, and track capital requests.
- Maintain visibility into capital approvals, commitments, expenditures, and related asset records.
- Support purchase requests, purchase orders, software licensing, laboratory operations, field trials, and other business operations needs.
- Coordinate with Procurement, Finance, suppliers, and technical teams to resolve process, data, and status issues.
- Support software license planning, renewals, true-ups, and related financial reporting.
What You Will Have:
- Extensive and progressive experience supporting digital, technology, software, engineering, finance, or business operations programs.
- Experience with financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, actual spending analysis, variance analysis, reporting, portfolio operations, or investment planning.
- Knowledge of project and program management practices, including governance, scheduling, risk management, and stakeholder coordination, with the ability to apply them to complex digital or technology initiatives.
- Ability to organize complex information, identify trends and data gaps, evaluate alternatives, and develop practical recommendations.
- Experience coordinating workforce, purchasing, capital, asset, supplier, licensing, or portfolio administration activities.
- Ability to build effective working relationships across engineering, product, Finance, Human Resources, Procurement, and leadership teams.
- Strong written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to translate detailed information into clear leadership summaries.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, maintain accurate information, meet recurring deadlines, and drive issues to resolution.
- Experience preparing management reports, dashboards, and presentations.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint or comparable analysis and presentation tools.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
Top Candidates Will Have:
- Experience supporting software engineering, cloud, artificial intelligence, simulation, autonomy, platform, or infrastructure organizations.
- Experience applying workforce, financial, capacity, or investment data to portfolio planning and leadership decisions.
- Experience with cloud financial management or FinOps practices, including cost allocation, utilization analysis, forecasting, or reservation planning.
- Proficiency with Power BI, Power Platform, SAP, Azure DevOps, or comparable portfolio, financial, and business reporting tools.
- Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, Lean Portfolio Management, or product- and portfolio-based operating models.
- PMP, CAPM, SAFe, Agile, FinOps, or a related professional certification.
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:
$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
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