Program Analyst

Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:
Operations Group, Operations Group > Program Analyst

General Summary:

The Program Analyst will support the Oryon CPU Engineering team developing and delivering key Qualcomm SoCs. This is the team behind Snapdragon X Elite laptop and the Snapdragon 8 Elite mobile CPUs!

Responsibilities include assisting with program development and implementation through managing processes, procedures, and tools that improve efficiencies. A Program Analyst coordinates across teams and monitors timelines, operations, risks, and priorities to achieve program progress. Programs will be of significant size and complexity and will require expertise related to the development of project management mechanisms.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Master's degree in Business Administration, Management, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience creating, scheduling, and maintaining program plans or related experience.
• 3+ years of experience with program management tools.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
• Coordinates troubleshooting for, enhancements to, and streamlining of engineering tools and flows. Maintains and manages access to collaboration sites and tools and associated sensitive engineering data.
• Manages allocation of compute resources, hardware equipment, and prototype parts and boards. Drives analysis to achieve accurate forecasting and works cross-functionally to ensure on-time allocation / delivery and efficient utilization.
• Develops and maintains relationships with third parties or internal customers and facilitates cross-team coordination for large, complex programs to identify and meet needs, assess resources, ensure compliance with processes and guidelines, track progress, and communicate program status updates.
• Facilitates meetings under guidance of the Program Manager and coordinates documentation of key discussion points, project plan changes, and stakeholder needs.
• Contributes to and updates project plans to support Program Managers or Leads on multiple or large programs that include priorities, timelines, critical tasks, stakeholder identification for each task, and forecasted resource allocation and/or leads program planning activities for small programs to support Program Managers or Leads.
• Collects, compiles, analyzes, monitors, and maintains engineering operations and budget data and recommends budget decisions to Program Lead or Manager and drives closure.
• Tracks the progress and execution of multiple, complex deliverables to ensure deadlines are met, and identifies, escalates, and at times manages issues that may impact deadlines.
• Determines schedules and task assignments by evaluating stakeholder needs and following proper project management practices with general guidance from the Program Manager.
• Manages and communicates changes in program timelines, priorities, and deliverables for multiple programs to stakeholders.
• Anticipates risks and issues in limited capacity throughout the program lifecycle, communicates issues to the Program Manager, and works with relevant team members to determine a solution.
• Gathers, analyzes, and interprets complex data and program metrics using highly advanced tools (e.g., macros, pivot tables, charts, graphs).
• Creates tools and processes to maintain and update databases using advanced aspects of data management tools (e.g., Excel, agile).
• Synthesizes highly complex data and metrics into a summary of key trends, risks, and changes, and presents results into a report that can be easily understood by key stakeholders.
• Contributes to the design and implementation of improvements to assigned planning processes, tools, and methods and drives standardization with support and guidance from Program Managers.

Level of Responsibility:
• Working independently with little supervision.
• Providing some supervision/guidance to others.
• Making decisions that are moderate in impact; errors may have relatively minor 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 somewhat complex to others who may have limited knowledge of the subject in question. May require basic negotiation and influence, cooperation, tact, and diplomacy, etc.
• Completing tasks that do not have defined steps; simultaneous use of multiple mental abilities is generally required to determine the best approach; mistakes may result in significant rework.
• Exercising creativity to draft original documents, imagery, or work products within established guidelines.
• 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.
• May be solicited during strategic planning period.

The responsibilities of this role do not include:
• Budgetary accountability.
• Influence over key organizational decisions.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
OR
Associate's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of relevant work experience.
OR
High School Diploma or equivalent and 4+ years of relevant work experience.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$117,700.00 - $176,500.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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