Leadership & Technical Development Program; LTDP - Procurement

Project/Program Manager IT 4

Duration: 12 months

Location:

Peoria, IL

C2C Rate: $70-78/Hr. On C2C

Client:
Caterpillar

Visa:
No Visa Restrictions

Position's Contributions to Work Group:

• An extensive knowledge about Caterpillar business and processes, and comprehensive understanding of the IT organization(s), procedures/processes associated delivering technical solutions that result in robust solutions capable of achieving the expected business outcomes.
• Should have strong program and project management, communication, change management, analytical and organizational leadership skills.
• Experience leading and facilitating multiple complex programs/projects that involved cross-functional teams comprised of IT staff and business unit personnel.
• Prior experience developing project charters, project plans, budgets, program/project status reports, IT Governance and Controls, and facilitating stakeholder and sponsor updates.

Education & Experience

Required:

• 4 year Bachelor's Degree
• 8+ years' experience in this capacity

Technical

Skills:

• Project/program management tools such as Azure Dev Ops and Microsoft Project.
• Should have strong program and project management (both agile and waterfall), communication, change management, analytical and organizational leadership skills.
• Experience leading and facilitating multiple complex programs/projects that involve cross-functional teams comprised of IT staff and business unit personnel.
• Prior experience developing project charters, project plans, budgets, program/project status reports, IT Governance and Controls, and facilitating stakeholder and sponsor updates.
• Knowledge of Mainframe and distributed based applications is desirable.
• Knowledge of Dealer system integrations at Caterpillar is desirable.

Soft Skills (Required):

• Excellent attention to details
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent project planning skills.

Typical task breakdown:

• The candidate will work with project teams daily on planning transformation projects along with other PMs/Scrum Masters to plan, execute and communicate project status.
• Provide operational project leadership support for current initiatives that require formal project structure and governance.

Interaction with team:

• Stretch across multiple teams (both IT and business) throughout the building.

Work environment:

• 5 days a week

Disqualifiers/Red Flags:

• Someone who cannot work for 5 days in the Peoria LC office.