Company:Qualcomm Incorporated

Job Area:Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > IT Project Management

General Summary:

Provides budget analysis, resource allocation and coordination of project activities that may be across functional areas within the organization. Assigns and monitors work of technical personnel, ensuring that project steps are in alignment with business objectives, on-time and within budget. Monitors reliability and any internal issues that appear as a result of the project. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Project Management-relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree.
OR
6+ years of Project Management-relevant work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

 Bachelor's degree in the areas of IT, Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

 7+ years of Project Management-relevant work experience in IT.

3+ years of managing operating budgets and/or project financials.

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

PMO, PMP, or Six Sigma Project Management Certification

Experience working as a Scrum Master in an Agile environment, facilitating Scrum events, and coaching teams in Agile principles and practices.

Knowledge of Agile frameworks and methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean.

Experience with Agile tools, such as Jira, Trello, or similar.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

•    Gathers stakeholder needs and goals with guidance, and executes communication plan for project team and stakeholders. 

•    Forms project team, and manages and prioritizes the work of the project team by establishing schedules and task assignments, and tracking tasks of team members. 

•    Creates project goals and prioritizes deliverables with guidance from project stakeholders. 

•    Manages multiple projects of small to medium size or complexity and applies up-to-date project management knowledge to meet deadlines. 

•    Builds and executes project plans for small- to medium-sized projects which include schedule and resource forecasting, stakeholder identification, method and frequency of communication, scope, and prioritization. 

•    Identifies project issues and risks, and creates a risk mitigation plan for small- to medium-sized projects. 

•    Manages project performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope, and with quality) for projects of small to medium size or complexity. 

•    Promotes project vision and objectives within project team, and ensures project objectives are met. 

•    Supports the compliance of project plans by following best practices and procedures. 

•   Promotes collaboration with diverse project stakeholders.

Facilitating Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

Coaching the Development Team in self-organization and cross-functionality.

Helping the Development Team to create high-value products.

Removing impediments to the Development Team’s progress.

Coaching the Product Owner in effective Product Backlog management.

Ensuring that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within the time-box.

Facilitating effective communication and collaboration between the Development Team, Product Owner, and other stakeholders

Level of Responsibility:  

•    Working under close supervision. 

•    Taking responsibility for own work and making decisions with limited impact; impact of decisions is readily apparent; errors made typically only impact timeline (i.e., require additional time to correct). 

•    Using verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information about day-to-day activities to others who are fully knowledgeable in the subject area. 

•    Completing tasks that require multiple steps that must be performed in a specific order, using directions or manuals that accurately document the steps necessary to perform the tasks. 

•    Using deductive problem solving required to solve moderately complex problems; most problems have defined processes of diagnosis/detection; some limited data analysis may be required. 

•    Exercising some creativity may be required to troubleshoot technical problems or deal with novel circumstances. 

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$123,200.00 - $184,800.00

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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