Business Planner

Full-time - Senior

Washington Water Power Co, WA

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Digital Services organization is looking for an experienced business planner to support the VP of GTM Strategy. Preferred location is Seattle Washington. Workforce Solutions (WS) is a new global business unit that brings together all commercial services teams across HP under one leader with a goal of providing a comprehensive portfolio of compelling services and solutions to our enterprise, mid-market, and even, in partnership with our strategic channel partners, to the SMB segment. Our goal is to enable CIOs to optimize the IT experience of their workforce while balancing other business pressures of affordability and risk. HP's core strengths in personal systems and computing, printing and document workflows, and advanced collaboration solutions provide the foundation from which we will expand our services portfolio. Our passion for our customer and our employees will be our differentiation. We have organized the P&L across three Service Lines, each representing a critical portfolio and business model. Lifecycle Services represents our core device-centric services. Managed Solutions represents our growing portfolio in integrated solutions and managed services that bring together hardware, software, HP and third-party capabilities. Our final strategic Service Line is focused on our rapidly growing Software / Digital Services portfolio. This newly founded division brings together software products and platforms from across HP, including our robust Print, Document and Workflow Management suite, our flagship Workforce Experience platform, and our overall HP Workplace Central platform which brings the entire software portfolio of HP (and key partners) together under a cloud-native, AI-driven Employee Experience platform.

Responsibilities

• Develops recommendations from complex data and business analysis and formulates them into business plans.
• Drives the construction of highly innovative statistical and financial models to analyze new aspects of business performance.
• Establishes the metrics required to measure business performance, and recommends the go-forward strategy to address performance gaps.
• Leads highly complex, time-sensitive market research projects and identifies compelling trends and opportunities for business leaders.
• Staffs and manages cross-functional teams across the entire span of business planning activities.
• Drives all aspects of priority projects and makes final team decisions; develops business plans and proactively identifies new opportunities as partners with client business leaders.
• Develops and drives comprehensive business plan recommendations, based on analysis, emerging trends, and experience.
• Identifies or develops cutting-edge analytical tools, models, and methods for making key business decisions.
• Counsels business leaders, recommends approaches for executing high-level strategies and develops creative solutions.
• Develops and executes forward-thinking strategies for building and nurturing long-term business relationships.

Requirements

• Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in strategy, planning, operations, market research, project management or a related field.

Nice-to-haves

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including; 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave