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Senior Manager, IT Strategy & Transformation
Senior Manager, IT Strategy & TransformationWestern Digital • San Jose, California, USA
Senior Manager, IT Strategy & Transformation

Senior Manager, IT Strategy & Transformation

Western Digital • San Jose, California, USA
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Role Overview

The Senior Manager of the Transformation Office is responsible for driving the three core capabilities that ensure Western Digitals IT organization executes its strategy effectively :

  • Strategy Enablement
  • Intake & Prioritization
  • Portfolio Management & Reporting

This role serves as the operational engine behind strategic planning governance and initiative oversight. The leader in this position ensures that IT investments are aligned to strategic priorities that new ideas are assessed consistently and that the overall portfolio delivers measurable outcomes with transparency and accountability.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategy Enablement

  • Partner with the CIO Chief of Staff and Strategy leads to translate business objectives into IT strategic priorities outcomes and measurable success criteria (OKRs).
  • Support development of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and the multi-year IT roadmap.
  • Maintain alignment between strategic pillars IT capabilities and the initiatives proposed or underway.
  • Ensure initiative owners understand strategic intent and how their work maps to ITs long-term plan.
  • 2. Intake & Prioritization

  • Manage the end-to-end intake process for new ideas and proposed initiatives.
  • Standardize evaluation criteria (business case strategic alignment resource needs OKRs).
  • Facilitate decision-making forums and ensure decisions (approve / defer / reject) are documented and communicated.
  • Work with finance HR and engineering leaders to validate feasibility capacity and funding availability.
  • Maintain a transparent view of all incoming requests and in-flight initiatives.
  • 3. Portfolio Management & Reporting

  • Own the governance model and operating cadence across the portfoliosteering committees initiative reviews risk assessments and executive reporting.
  • Create and maintain dashboards (scope schedule budget risks dependencies value).
  • Monitor initiative performance against OKRs and strategic outcomes.
  • Identify delivery risks escalate issues and drive cross-team alignment to keep initiatives on track.
  • Track financial forecasts budget adherence and value realization metrics.
  • Provide executive-ready insights on portfolio health for the CIO CFO and ITLT.
  • Qualifications : Qualifications

  • 10 years in IT transformation PMO leadership enterprise portfolio management or technology strategy.
  • Experience defining governance frameworks and managing large initiative portfolios.
  • Strong analytical skills; comfortable with executive-level reporting and data-driven decision making.
  • Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment across multiple teams.
  • Highly organized detail-oriented and capable of managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proficiency with tools such as Power BI M365 Smartsheet Jira or equivalent.
  • Additional Information :

    Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race color ancestry religion (including religious dress and grooming standards) sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions breastfeeding or related medical conditions) gender (including a persons gender identity gender expression and gender-related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the persons assigned sex at birth) age national origin sexual orientation medical condition marital status (including domestic partnership status) physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information protected medical and family care leave Civil Air Patrol status military and veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Know Your Rights : Workplace Discrimination is Illegal poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

    Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees our company our customers and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging respect and contribution.

    Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at to advise us of your accommodation your email please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

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    Remote Work : No

    Employment Type : Full-time

    Key Skills

    Marketing,Data Visualization,Tableau,Customer Segmentation,Microsoft Powerpoint,Investment Banking,Strategic Planning,Financial Modeling,Customer relationship management,Management Consulting,Google Suite,Analytics

    Experience : years

    Vacancy : 1

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