Chief of Staff - Strategy & Business Planning Lead, Design to Operate Value Stream

HP•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Strategy & Business Planning Lead for HP’s Design to Operate (D2O) Value Stream serves as an operating partner to the VP, Head of D2O Value Stream. The role supports a 200+ person organization by bringing clarity, discipline, and speed to its operations, while representing the team effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional partners. It connects strategic planning, executive communications, organizational operations, and cross-functional execution. The successful candidate will help shape priorities and evaluate tradeoffs, translate leadership priorities into actionable plans, manage executive requests, and prepare leadership for key meetings and decisions. The role develops executive communications and presentations that explain digital transformation work as clear business narratives and measurable outcomes. It owns the team’s operating cadence and planning cycles, tracks strategic commitments, and partners with finance, HR, and Applied AI leadership on budget, forecast, staffing, vendor, and investment tracking. The position also coordinates across the D2O team, business functions, Digital, and the broader HP organization; supports end-to-end transformation alignment; and leads or coordinates high-priority special projects. It requires sound judgment, discretion, business acumen, analytical rigor, and the ability to drive results across complex stakeholder environments without direct authority.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in business operations, strategy and planning, Chief of Staff roles, program or portfolio management, transformation, consulting, or a related field.
Demonstrated ability to partner with senior executives, exercise independent judgment, and handle sensitive information with discretion.
Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to create clear, concise, visually compelling presentations and decision materials.
Strong strategic thinking and execution skills, with a track record of turning broad objectives into coordinated plans and measurable results.
Strong business acumen and financial literacy, including experience with budgets, resource planning, investment tradeoffs, and operational metrics.
Ability to manage competing priorities, complex stakeholder requests, and fast-moving deadlines with minimal supervision.
Strong collaboration and influencing skills, including the ability to build trust, navigate organizational complexity, and drive outcomes without direct authority.
Ability to understand end-to-end business processes, enterprise technology, and operational dependencies and translate them into business priorities and operating plans.
Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice To Haves

MBA, MS, or another advanced degree.
Experience supporting a VP-level or senior executive leadership team in a Chief of Staff, business planning, strategy, or operations capacity.
Experience driving enterprise transformation and coordinating initiatives across multiple functions.
Familiarity with value stream management, process improvement, change management, and enterprise systems.
Experience defining and tracking transformation outcomes, including efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost, and adoption.
Experience designing and improving operating mechanisms for a complex organization, including OKRs, portfolio and roadmap reviews, executive dashboards, and leadership cadences.

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted advisor to the Design to Operate Value Stream leader, shaping priorities, evaluating tradeoffs, and advancing the strategic agenda.
Translate leadership priorities into plans with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and measures of success.
Manage executive requests and emerging issues, ensuring timely leadership attention and follow-through.
Prepare the value stream leader for meetings and decisions with briefings, stakeholder context, recommendations, and decision materials.
Represent the leader’s priorities in designated forums and drive alignment and follow-through on leadership decisions.
Create presentations and communications for C-suite and senior executive audiences, including strategy updates, operating reviews, transformation narratives, investment cases, and progress reports.
Partner with value stream leaders and subject matter experts to communicate process, technology, and operational work as clear business narratives and measurable outcomes.
Establish reusable communication frameworks and recurring forums to strengthen understanding of the team’s work across HP.
Own the leadership operating cadence, including staff meetings, business reviews, progress checkpoints, team-wide meetings, planning cycles, and offsites.
Drive annual and quarterly planning and ensure goals, OKRs, and owners are clear across the value stream.
Track strategic commitments, surface risks and gaps, and work with leaders to resolve issues and maintain execution.
Coordinate internal initiatives to improve team effectiveness, coordination, engagement, planning discipline, and cross-functional alignment.
Partner with finance, HR, and Applied AI leadership to maintain budget, forecast, headcount, contractor, vendor, and investment trackers.
Coordinate between the Design to Operate Value Stream and partners across business functions, Digital, and HP.
Support alignment among process owners, business stakeholders, and technology teams to advance end-to-end transformation.
Engage with Chiefs of Staff, strategy teams, and peer organizations across HP to share information, resolve dependencies, and align on enterprise initiatives.
Lead or coordinate high-priority Digital special projects, particularly cross-team initiatives or those requiring executive visibility.
Apply structured problem solving, analytical rigor, and practical judgment to ambiguous business and operating challenges.
Identify emerging issues and opportunities, develop recommendations, and mobilize stakeholders to drive action.