Western Digital Staff Project Manager Supply Chain 

United States, Arizona, Phoenix 

274297389

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

As Staff Program Manager in Digital Transformation Strategy, you’ll lead the evolution of our PMO to enable prioritization frameworks, cross-functional orchestration, and consistent delivery excellence. Partnering with stakeholders across Global End to End Supply Chain you’ll bring structure to complex portfolios and empower teams with the tools, visibility, and alignment needed to scale transformational outcomes. Your focus will span the full initiative lifecycle from strategy intake and prioritization, through KPI tracking and execution governance, to downstream adoption of scalable frameworks and templates. Your influence will connect strategy to results, not by enforcing process for process' sake, but by enabling momentum and accountability at every level

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead 3-4 priority programs that span across E2E Supply Chain, Digital Transformation focusing on connecting planning to execution.
• Enable outcome-based planning by embedding prioritization and intake rigor into PMO workflows and toolsets.
• Collaborate across business and technical teams to co-develop frameworks, templates, and coaching playbooks that reinforce agility and delivery mindset.
• Use Smartsheet, Confluence, and Jira to build dashboards that monitor health, risk, and delivery across portfolios.
• Champion the adoption of delivery culture not just accountability, but empowerment, clarity, and measurable progress. .
• Enable outcome-based planning by embedding prioritization and intake rigor into PMO workflows and toolsets..
• Use Smartsheet, Confluence, and Jira to build dashboards that monitor health, risk, and delivery across portfolios.
• Champion the adoption of delivery culture not just accountability, but empowerment, clarity, and measurable progress.
• Improve transparency and delivery rhythm by owning program dashboards, reporting cadences, and issue escalation paths.
• Support cross-functional teams in navigating change through rollout of playbooks, process templates, and communication channels.
• Build and manage PMO content spaces (e.g., SharePoint, Confluence), ensuring clarity, usability, and up-to-date governance documentation.

Required:

• 5–8 years of hands-on project/program management experience, ideally in a matrixed supply chain or transformation-focused environment.
• Strong operational mindset with a proven track record of executing complex cross-functional initiatives from intake to completion.
• Familiarity with agile, waterfall, or hybrid methods with the ability to flex delivery styles based on team readiness and project needs.
• A knack for simplifying complexity bringing structure to ambiguity through process design, documentation, and stakeholder alignment.
• Confident communicator who can facilitate tough conversations, manage timelines, and ensure delivery teams stay focused and unblocked.
• Experience working with digital tools like Smartsheet, Jira to track milestones, surface risks, and report status to leadership.

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.

• You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either Western Digital’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.