Global AI Data Center Program Manager

OIA GLOBAL; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

OIA Global in Portland, OR is seeking a Program Manager to lead mobilization and implementation of a customer Control Tower for AI data center deployments, translating scope into an executable operating model across global workstreams.

You will own end-to-end delivery from mobilization through launch, manage risks and dependencies, govern the integrated plan, and ensure readiness, transition, and long-term service stability with customers and internal teams.

Qualifications

• Program leadership across complex, interdependent workstreams.
• Leads design, readiness, cutover, hyper care, and stabilization.
• Governance, decision rights, stage gates, escalation routes.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and drive mitigation.
• SAP S/4HANA-enabled supply chain understanding.
• Operating-model design and process mapping.
• Stakeholder alignment across customer, regional, and partners.
• Change leadership across scope, process, and technology.
• Analytical judgement using data and structured problem solving.
• Commercial acumen: delivery economics and cost-to-serve.
• Contract and scope management with formal change control.
• Strong communication with senior customers and executives.
• Ability to translate complex delivery information into decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery from mobilization through launch, hyper care, stabilization, and transition to steady state.
• Maintain the integrated Program plan, milestones, dependencies, decision log, and acceptance criteria.
• Act as the single point of accountability for status, delivery risk, and cross-functional alignment.
• Establish workstream ownership, decision rights, escalation routes, and an approved governance model.
• The Program Manager is expected to drive Program decisions within agreed governance boundaries and upscale scope, resource, commercial, or timeline impacts through the approved steering structure.
• Own Program commercial performance against the approved business case, including budget, delivery cost, resource cost, and margin at Program level.
• Track Program financials — forecast versus actual, resource burn, implementation cost, and one-off versus recurring spend — and report variance with corrective actions.
• Own the executive and sponsor relationship on delivery matters, including steering participation, escalation of commercial or contractual risk, and formal acceptance sign-off.
• Govern Program delivery against contracted scope and support commercial performance, retention, and expansion in partnership with account and solution leadership.
• Lead the design, validation, and implementation of the Control Tower operating model.
• Coordinate process mapping, SOPs, workflow validation, access readiness, training, testing, cutover, and operational sign-off.
• Validate staffing, capability, system access, customer input, and training readiness ahead of launch.

Skills

Program Leadership

Mobilization

Governance

Risk Management

Operating Model

Stakeholder Influence

Change Leadership

Analytical Judgement

Commercial Acumen

Contract Management

Communication Skills

Decision Making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or related field

PM Certification (PMP/PRINCE2)

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

OIA Global in Portland, OR is seeking a Program Manager to lead mobilization and implementation of a customer Control Tower for AI data center deployments, translating scope into an executable operating model across global workstreams.

You will own end-to-end delivery from mobilization through launch, manage risks and dependencies, govern the integrated plan, and ensure readiness, transition, and long-term service stability with customers and internal teams.