Chief of Staff, Data Center Engineering — HPE Networking

Hewlett Packard Enterprise•Sunnyvale, CA

7d•$163,000 - $347,500•Hybrid

About The Position

The Chief of Staff serves as a strategic advisor and execution partner to the Data Center Engineering leader within HPE Networking. The role translates business and engineering priorities into a clear operating agenda, drives alignment across product, architecture, operations, finance, and people teams, and ensures disciplined follow-through on the organization’s most critical commitments. This leader brings structure to complex decisions, surfaces risks and tradeoffs, and enables the Engineering leadership team to operate with greater speed, focus, and accountability.

Requirements

Management consulting experience highly desired.
Prior corporate leadership.
Achieved planned financial results at an organizational level.
Acted as a senior executive in a global company responsible for operational efficiency.
Exercised leadership on external business or industry boards.
12+ years total experience.
MBA highly desired, or advanced university degree.
Bachelors degree required.
Strategic Planning & Implementation: Orchestrates the development of strategic plans that reflects the company's business strategy to advance market share/penetration and achieve profitable growth.
Budget Management & Cost Optimization: Establishes tracks and enforces spending parameters to protect the company's business and assets, and ensures their effective engagement.
P&L Management: Sets and manages the business investments and resource allocations essential to ensuring the financial growth & health of the corporation.
Vertical Industry Acumen: Develops and exercises a profound understanding of business dynamics within area of control, as a basis for informed business decision making.
Workforce Planning: Builds acquisition and development strategies targeted to ensuring workforce readiness, and market opportunity responsiveness.
Execution Management: Collaborates effectively with the company's BUs and value chain partners to ensure operational responsiveness to challenges, and alignment with business imperatives
C-Level Partnering: Contributes to enduring executive relationships that establish the company's consultative professionalism and promotes its total solution capabilities at the highest levels of an organization.
Business and Financial Acumen: Exhibits authoritative business and financial acumen o develop meaningful business recommendations. Understands the portfolio aspect of the company's products/services and how the businesses work together.
Change Management: Develops methods for supporting innovation and change across the organization.
Problem Solving: Approaches problems in a rational manner using sound strategies that ensures comprehensive understanding and effective resolution.
Leadership: Able to lead effectively in a complex and political environment, and deliver results; Able to influence without direct authority; Able to balance between competing priorities and be flexible and creative; Able to drive team performance to world class; Able to create and build highly effective teams and organizations; Able to communicate effectively across multiple levels in the company and the industry.

Responsibilities

Convert Data Center Engineering priorities into measurable plans, milestones, decision points, and operating rhythms.
Shape agendas, prepare executive briefings, facilitate decisions, and track commitments across the leadership team.
Connect engineering plans with product strategy, customer commitments, financial objectives, workforce priorities, and BU dependencies.
Develop concise insights on progress, capacity, investment choices, organizational health, and delivery risks for senior leaders.
Lead high-impact, ambiguous work on behalf of the Engineering leader, particularly where ownership spans multiple functions or teams.