Caterpillar Inc. is looking to enable and scale AI adoption and progress across the enterprise by identifying opportunities, running experiments, accelerating adoption, ensuring AI value realization, supporting strategic partner engagement, and developing frameworks to scale AI solutions globally.
Requirements
- Extensive knowledge of effective planning and facilitation 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.
- Extensive knowledge of project administration best practices and ability to use organizational strategies, practices and tools for administering projects.
- Extensive knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
- Extensive knowledge of tools, techniques and processes for gathering and reporting data; ability to practice them in a particular department or division of a company.
- Working knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end-users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design).
- Extensive knowledge of project management; ability to plan, organize, monitor and control IT projects using appropriate technical resources.
- Working knowledge of Information Technology (IT) standards and policies; ability to utilize a variety of administrative skill sets and technical knowledge to manage organizational IT policies, standards, and procedures.
Responsibilities
- Establish project management infrastructure, including teams, SharePoint, Confluence, and Azure DevOps, and works to standardize best practices and reporting.
- Managing the day-to-day activities of projects, including overseeing project responsibilities and schedules.
- Developing contingency plans for potential risks.
- Evaluating and managing deliverables to ensure that service expectations are achievable, developed, and met.
- Monitoring project results for significant deviations.
- Ensuring adherence to quality standards and processes.
- Prepare weekly and monthly updates for senior leadership, including the CEO, and manage expectations around reporting demands.
Other
- Ability to communicate clearly with senior leadership and technical teams, and comfortable advocating for the team.
- Ability to work autonomously, Push back on excessive oversight requests, advocate for realistic deadlines, and ensures team recognition and well-being.
- Extensive program management leadership experience working with Software Engineering teams in an agile environment (typically 8+ years)
- Proven experience with Project Management concepts including Project Charters, Scheduling and Planning Projects and successful completion
- Excellent interpersonal skills are required in order to deal with sensitive issues, develop others, or influence others inside and outside the department to take specific actions.
