Role- Senior Program Manager
Location- Plano, TX (Hybrid with Travel)
Role Overview:
As the Program Manager ,you will lead the successful delivery of two large-scale infrastructure programs-AIM (Application Infrastructure Maintenance) and TLM (Technology Lifecycle
Management)-spanning five key projects across PepsiCo's manufacturing, warehouse, and data center sites.
You will oversee program strategy, drive cross-functional coordination, manage execution milestones, and ensure on-time, high-quality delivery aligned with client’s expectations.
Key Responsibilities:
Program & Portfolio Leadership
- Lead end-to-end delivery of AIM and TLM infrastructure programs across 30+ U.S. sites.
- Develop and maintain program-level roadmaps, RACI, governance structures, and milestone tracking.
- Partner with Portfolio Director and Technical Director to align program execution .
Project Management Oversight
- Oversee planning, execution, and closure of:
- WCS OS/DB/Application Upgrades
- Manufacturing P2V Migrations
- GES Compute Refresh
- TLM Compute Refresh (Azure + Datacenter Servers)
- FPS Print/File Cloud Migrations
- Lead risk mitigation, budget adherence, vendor management, and stakeholder coordination.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Interface with customer for roadmap alignment, escalations, and sign-offs.
- Coordinate across cross-functional teams including Field IT, WaveTech, Rubrik, NetApp, HCL DNS, and
App Owners.
- Drive cadence calls, reporting, and change management communications.
Execution Excellence
- Ensure deliverables meet quality and timeliness expectations per milestone contracts.
- Guide Cutover, Hypercare, Site Coordination, and Post-Migration Operations across waves.
- Drive lessons learned, documentation closure, and continuous improvement.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 10-15+ years of experience managing large-scale IT infrastructure programs, preferably in Manufacturing,
FMCG, or Supply Chain environments.
- Strong experience in data center transformation, compute/server refresh, and virtualization.
- Proven success managing cross-functional programs across offshore, nearshore, and onsite teams.
- Expertise with project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) and tools (MS Project, JIRA,
ServiceNow).
- Ability to manage milestone-based financial tracking and performance-based credits.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; confident in executive stakeholder discussions.
- PMP or PgMP certification preferred.
Key Traits:
- Results-driven and strategic thinker
- Calm under pressure; proactive problem solver
- Strong vendor management and conflict resolution skills
- Comfortable leading in a matrixed and multicultural delivery environment
Travel Requirements:
- Occasional travel to high-priority sites (e.g., those with complex configurations, paging devices, or gate
boxes)
- Travel aligned with critical cutovers and site reviews
Skills Matrix:
- Program Management: End-to-end delivery of multi-million-dollar infrastructure programs.
- Stakeholder Communication: Executive-level reporting, cross-functional coordination.
- Infrastructure Modernization: Server refresh, cloud migration, virtualization (ESXi, Azure).
- Risk Management: Identification, assessment, and mitigation planning.
- Change Management: Managing cutovers, hypercare, post-migration support.
- Financial Tracking: Milestone-based billing, credit-at-risk tracking, vendor negotiations.
- Tools Expertise:
- Project Planning: MS Project, Smartsheet, Gantt tools
- Agile/Waterfall: Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow
- Collaboration: Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive
- Regulatory Compliance: Adherence to corporate IT, procurement, and security policies.
- Team Leadership: Coordinating offshore, nearshore, and onsite resources.
- Vendor Management: Overseeing third-party field techs, OEMs (Rubrik, NetApp, HPE).
Axiom is a global information technology, consulting and outsourcing company and services provider. Our IT solutions empower organizations and individuals throughout the world to maximize value and quality to succeed in today's challenging business environment. As a fast-growing new economy company, we focus our strengths to offer world-class solutions and services through the convergence of technology, innovation, expertise and experience. We provide software consulting, development and IT-enabled services to clients across the globe. We work towards delivering sustained value creation for customers, employees, industries and society at large. Core offerings include data warehousing, middleware development, product development and web-enablement of legacy applications in verticals like telecom, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, energy & utilities, retail & distribution, enablement of legacy Relentless exploration of technology horizons and a Global Delivery Model that is a judicious combination of onsite, offsite and offshore development, offer a complete range of high-ROI business solutions spanning the consulting, technology, operations and process outsourcing value chain.
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