Remote PLM Transformation Director

Capgemini; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 104,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement savings plans

Life and disability insurance

Employee assistance programs

Other benefits

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering is seeking a PLM Program Director to lead enterprise-scale PLM modernization programs for strategic North America clients. This is a high-impact leadership role demanding executive confidence, delivery discipline, and commercial ownership across multi-site teams.

You will shape outcomes across engineering, manufacturing, IT, operations and suppliers while modernizing platforms and ways of working that power product innovation. Remote work with 20% travel is expected.

Qualifications

• 20+ years leading complex engineering, IT or digital transformation programs.
• Program Director-level experience with multi-year, multi-site, multi-vendor programs and executive client accountability.
• Strong commercial ownership across budget, revenue, margin, forecasting, scope, change control and contractual commitments.
• Experience with major PLM platforms such as Siemens Teamcenter, PTC Windchill, Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE, Aras or comparable solutions.
• Proven ability to combine delivery leadership with advisory, pre‑sales, solution shaping, executive value articulation and account growth.
• Experience leading onshore–offshore delivery models across North America and global delivery locations.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, multi-year PLM transformation and Digital Continuity programs from mobilization through deployment, adoption and stabilization.
• Serve as the executive-facing leader for client sponsors, program owners, Capgemini leadership and technology partners.
• Own delivery governance, financial performance, risk management, scope control, change governance and value realization.
• Mobilize and lead blended onshore–offshore teams with clear accountability, quality gates, productivity controls and transparent hand-offs.
• Create structure across integrated plans, dependencies, milestones, backlog, burndown, executive reporting and decision forums.
• Drive advisory and delivery-led sales, including opportunity shaping, solutioning, proposals, renewals and follow-on growth.
• Embed AI-powered PLM practices, including AI-accelerated delivery, AI-assisted migration and testing, software factory approaches and augmented-engineering readiness.
• Build trust with clients and teams through authentic, adaptive communication, emotional awareness and the ability to read the room.
• Bring executive presence, client centricity and strategic perspective to complex decisions, risks and trade-offs.
• Maintain delivery balance through strong structuring discipline across scope, backlog, dependencies, primary and secondary tasks, burndown and reporting.
• Convert delivery credibility into renewal readiness, follow-on growth and long-term client value.
• Lead with One Capgemini, end‑to‑end ownership mindset across teams, geographies, partners and stakeholders

Skills

PLM transformation

Executive leadership

Commercial ownership

PLM platforms

Delivery leadership

Onshore–offshore delivery

Job description

Capgemini Engineering is seeking a PLM Program Director to lead enterprise-scale PLM modernization programs for strategic North America clients. This is a high-impact leadership role demanding executive confidence, delivery discipline, and commercial ownership across multi-site teams.

You will shape outcomes across engineering, manufacturing, IT, operations and suppliers while modernizing platforms and ways of working that power product innovation. Remote work with 20% travel is expected.