Agile Project/Program Manager - 030

Open to Peoria, IL and Dallas, TX

Position's Contributions to Work Group

• This role serves as a hybrid Project Manager supporting delivery teams across the Cat Dealer ERP transformation program.

• The individual will facilitate Agile ceremonies, drive work decomposition, backlog refinement and prioritization in Azure DevOps, manage dependencies and milestones, coordinate stakeholder communications, and help ensure delivery commitments are met.

• The role is critical to maintaining alignment across teams, improving delivery predictability, and providing transparency into program progress, risks, and outcomes.

• Enable delivery across complex, enterprise-scale workstreams including release planning, readiness, coordination, and execution activities.

Your contribution will include driving transparency through dashboards, fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams, and supporting continuous improvement to deliver high-quality ERP capabilities on time and within scope

Typical task breakdown:

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.

• Coach teams on Agile principles, Scrum practices, and continuous improvement.

• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, and technical teams to decompose and prioritize work in Azure DevOps, ensuring a healthy, execution-ready backlog aligned to delivery commitments.

• Ensure user stories, acceptance criteria, estimates, and dependencies are clearly defined and understood.

• Remove impediments, resolve blockers, and escalate risks and issues as needed.

• Coordinate execution across multiple teams and workstreams to drive alignment and delivery predictability.

• Facilitate cross-team dependency identification, management, and resolution.

• Support Program Increment (PI) Planning, sprint planning, and release planning activities.

• Manage and track project milestones, delivery commitments, risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.

• Coordinate release readiness activities, deployment planning, and execution support across teams.

• Develop and maintain Azure DevOps dashboards, metrics, and reporting to provide visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes.

Prepare and communicate delivery status, milestones, risks, and key - decisions to stakeholders and leadership.

• Foster collaboration, accountability, and effective communication across business, product, engineering, and vendor teams.

• Drive adherence to Agile standards, delivery best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure successful delivery of ERP capabilities.

Interaction with team

• Working with the Dealer and Rental Systems PMO team and broader ERP program team, including external partners.

Work environment

come into office when needed ( local ) because eventually this role will be full-time in office. Candidate needs to be local already.

Education & Experience Required:

No degree, they must have 8+ years exp as a PM

Degree ( preferred), they must have 5+ years exp as PM

Required Technical Skills

(Required)

• Azure DevOps expertise, including backlog management, work item decomposition, sprint planning, tracking, dashboards, and reporting

• Strong Agile and Scrum knowledge with experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and coaching teams. SAFe experience a plus.

• Project and program management experience, including milestone tracking, dependency management, RAID management, and stakeholder communications

• Experience coordinating work across multiple teams and managing delivery against commitments

• Technical understanding of the software product development lifecycle and digital product delivery practices

• Proficiency with

• Miro experience (nice to have)

Soft Skills

(Required)

• Excellent communication

• Strong facilitation and meeting leadership skills

• Relationship building and stakeholder management

• Cross-functional collaboration

• Servant leadership mindset

• Conflict resolution and negotiation

• Organizational and prioritization skills

• Critical thinking and problem solving

• Ability to build alignment and gain buy-in

• Results oriented and outcome driven