IT Program Manager

Company:

Qualcomm Incorporated

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Program Management

Lead the Program Management Office (PMO) for Qualcomm’s exciting Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Transformation initiative. Qualcomm’s PLM Transformation is a strategic program reshaping the way Qualcomm manages product data and life cycles across global operations. It spans engineering, supply chain, quality, and IT—integrating advanced PLM capabilities like BOM and document control, change governance, ERP/CAD interoperability, and compliance frameworks. This initiative replaces a legacy PLM system and numerous custom applications with a unified, scalable platform, driving efficiency and innovation.

Beyond technology, this program will transform how Qualcomm manages product data across the lifecycle and deliver deep organizational changes across the company. The end state will be a future‑ready PLM ecosystem that accelerates development, strengthens operational agility, and supports Qualcomm’s growth strategy.

The responsibilities of this role include:

• Coordinate multiple concurrent projects, stakeholder and IT leaders, systems integrator partners, and execution teams all coming together to deliver in the SAFe framework.
• Drive the PLM Transformation program from initiation through delivery, interfacing with stakeholders across functions as needed.
• Establish and govern program PMO – ensuring risk control, performance metrics, and budget discipline across a multi‑year roadmap.
• Develop, define, and execute plans of record, including schedules, budgets, resources, deliverables, and risks.
• Manage budget/spending, on‑time delivery, and achievement of program milestones.
• Represent the program and drive alignment across stakeholders, including leveraging robust organizational change strategies for global adoption of end‑state solution.
• Scoping, planning and executing large, cross‑functional programs and projects.
• Deep experience managing large programs in Agile methodologies and the SAFe framework.
• Strong proficiency in Jira for project tracking, issue management, and workflow optimization to effectively oversee project deliverables.
• Primarily working independently with little supervision. Taking responsibility for own work and making decisions that are moderate to high in impact; errors may have financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships; errors may require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct.
• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey information that may be complex to others who may have limited knowledge of the subject in question. Role requires proficiency in negotiation and influence, cooperation, tact, and diplomacy, etc.
• Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or incomplete; intermediate data analysis/interpretation skills may be required.
• Exercising substantial creativity to innovate new processes, procedures and deliverables within guidelines or to achieve established objectives.
• Facilitates the creation and approval of project business cases.
• Creates and manages program/projects scope, schedule, resource plans and budgets.
• Aligns goals, plans, dependencies and resources across the contributing or affected functional or regional teams to ensure attainment of milestones.
• Drives cohesive end‑to‑end planning, design and execution of changes to accelerate adoption while minimizing adverse impact to business operations.
• Enforces project lifecycle process and gate reviews.
• Maintains score cards and metrics to report performance against plans and goals and to highlight risks, issues and action plans.
• Supports the establishment of program governance, goals and prioritizes deliverables under minimal supervision of IT and Business stakeholders.
• Manages and takes responsibility for multiple small programs/technologies with minimal complexity or a single program/technology with moderate to high complexity by applying…