Enterprise Payments Program Manager – CoE Leader

Caterpillar; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 128,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) savings plans

Paid time off

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Chicago is seeking an Enterprise Payments Program Manager to lead the Enterprise Payments Center of Excellence within Cat Digital, coordinating payment initiatives across business units to drive standardized, scalable delivery.

The role requires strong stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and the ability to balance central standards with BU flexibility in a fast-paced, global manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in program or project management.
• Proven experience managing complex, cross-functional programs.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across both business and technical teams.
• Experience operating within enterprise delivery models with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple initiatives simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise payments program execution across initiatives, platforms, and business units.
• Enable consistent adoption of enterprise payment standards across business units by ensuring delivery teams are aligned to common approaches, sequencing, and priorities.
• Coordinate across: Product teams Engineering teams Treasury, Tax, Legal, and ERP stakeholders.
• Orchestrate coordination across business unit program/project managers, ensuring enterprise payment priorities, milestones, and governance decisions are consistently aligned and executed across federated delivery teams.
• Ensure alignment between enterprise governance decisions and BU-level execution, proactively identifying conflicts in prioritization, timelines, sequencing, or resource allocation.
• Tracks and manages program milestones, risks and dependencies, and cross-functional impacts.
• Manage enterprise payments intake pipeline and prioritization tracking, ensuring visibility across all initiatives.
• Provide executive-level reporting and status updates on enterprise payments initiatives.
• Ensure consistent translation of enterprise strategy and governance into scalable, repeatable delivery patterns across all participating teams.
• Drive strong execution discipline while maintaining flexibility across diverse business unit requirements.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and streamline execution across initiatives, reducing duplication and improving delivery efficiency at scale.
• Establish and maintain a single source of truth for enterprise payments initiative status, priorities, and dependencies.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Tools

Agile tools

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Chicago is seeking an Enterprise Payments Program Manager to lead the Enterprise Payments Center of Excellence within Cat Digital, coordinating payment initiatives across business units to drive standardized, scalable delivery.

The role requires strong stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and the ability to balance central standards with BU flexibility in a fast-paced, global manufacturing environment.