Qualcomm Chipset Program Manager - Director 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

992601275

Job Area:

Engineering Services Group, Engineering Services Group > Program Management

Develops, defines, and executes plans of record, including: schedules, budgets, resources, deliverables, and risks. Monitors and drives the program from initiation through delivery, interfacing with internal and external stakeholders across functions on technical matters, as needed. Monitors budget/spending, on-time delivery, and achievement of program milestones. Represents the program and drives alignment across stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

• 4+ years of Program Management or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field.

• PMP Certification.

• 15+ years of Program Management or related work experience.

• 4+ years of experience working in a large matrixed organization.

• 4+ years of experience with program management tools such as dashboards, Gantt charts, etc.

• 3+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above).

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Applies project management strategies to review and translate high-level requirements into program goals and prioritized deliverables, coordinates business processes (e.g., project change management, communication), and drives decisions necessary for program delivery by partnering with program sponsors.

• Manages and takes responsibility for multiple large programs/technology varying from moderate to complex by applying up-to-date and innovative program management best practices.

• Develops, guides, manages the execution of, and reviews program Plan of Record (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope) for large programs; this includes schedule and resource forecasting, stakeholder identification, method and frequency of communication, scope, and prioritization.

• Establishes key program metrics and manages team to take action outside their comfort zone to ensure program success when metrics deviate from Plan of Record.

• Identifies and secures resources to ensure alignment of team with program/technology demand for multiple large sized programs with varying complexity.

• Makes recommendations, implements risk management strategies, and reviews risk mitigation plans for multiple large programs based on knowledge of appropriate strategies.

• Reviews and validates business cases in partnership with cross-functional teams (e.g., product management, finance, engineering) based on a thorough understanding of internal and external influences, and assists in determining program needs.

• Establishes and advances a clear vision of a program as well as the goals and objectives to the team, presents program vision to executive leadership, and gains buy-in from stakeholders.

• Executes implementation of defined policies and procedures to drive process improvement in the internal Program Management team.

Level of Responsibility:

• Working independently with no supervision.

• Making decisions that are significant in impact, influencing overall program or project success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives; errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results; errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct.

• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

• Some financial accountability (e.g., manages a small budget, has input into P&L).

• Having a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that have substantial impact on the organization).

• Completing tasks that require multiple steps that can be performed in various orders; tasks require simultaneously executing multiple cognitive abilities and maintaining information in short- or long-term memory.

• Regularly determines what needs to be done and is involved with sharing innovative solutions to achieve broad policies and objectives.

• Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.

• Develops, redesigns organizational strategies and provides overall direction for various functional areas and/or entire organization. Has influence over the formulation and achievement of long-term business plans and objectives.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.