Western Digital
Supply Chain Program Manager
San Jose, CA, United States · Senior
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About the role
- It's real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today.
- Join us and let's shape the future of data.
- You will be awarded opportunities across the full spectrum of Supply Chain functions, engaging with established leaders in Logistics, Direct Procurement, Indirect Procurement, Planning, Risk and Resiliency, Operations and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Integrated planning and governance. Own the master plan, milestones, dependencies, owners, RAID log and steering committee cadence across all workstreams, with an independent view of status.
- Scope, schedule and budget control. Protect the baseline, manage change through a disciplined process, and keep the program on time and on budget.
- Maintain a single source of truth for Program status
- Own a portfolio of supply chain Programs, including major ramps and transitions of high complexity
- Frame executive decisions, manage complex risk and drive cross-functional alignment without authority
- Balancing competing priorities. Reconcile Legal's risk posture, Procurement's efficiency goals and the business's need for speed into decisions all parties can support.
- Earned trust and sponsorship. Involve skeptics early, give them a real voice in design, and use executive sponsors and escalation paths deliberately.
- Track dependency status and drive owners to their commitments
- Maintain a live Program risk register with owners, mitigations and trigger points
- Testing and cutover. Lead system integration and user acceptance testing, data migration validation and a well-rehearsed go-live.
Requirements
- Lead, coach and develop the Program Managers running them, building advanced proficiency across the Program management toolkit
- Escalate blocked dependencies with the decision required clearly stated
Nice to have
- The plan is an instrument.
- The measure is whether the ramp landed on time, at cost and at quality.
- Champion clear decisions.
- Most Program delay is undecided, not unknown.
- Frame the choice, name the decider, get it made and record it.
- Programs fail between them, which is where the Program Manager works.
- Escalate early with a recommendation.
- Raise it when there is still room to act, and bring the option you would choose.
Company info
- Bold programs and transformations delivered on time, on budget and at the quality customers expect. - Problems solved before they surface.
- New processes, tools and transitions rolled out smoothly, with no disruption to customers and no value left on the table. - A voice leaders trust.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Earned trust and sponsorship
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