Personal Systems Business Planning Manager

HP • Houston, TX

3d

About The Position

This role leads the development, negotiation, coordination, and communication of business plans to maximize identified opportunities and achieve organizational performance goals. It explores new business opportunities, partnerships, and expansion strategies to drive growth and market share. The role also improves business practices and increases business value through consistent measurement and improvement of key activity metrics.

The position leads recurring operational meetings and supports cross-functional planning and reviews. It develops business plans and recommendations from complex data and analysis, establishes performance metrics and review processes, and recommends strategies to address performance gaps. It staffs and manages cross-functional teams across business planning activities, drives priority projects, makes final team decisions, and advises management on approaches to execute high-level strategies. The role also develops strategies for building and nurturing long-term business relationships.

Requirements

• Four-year or graduate degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline, or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
• Typically 10 or more years of work experience, preferably in strategy, planning, operations, market research, or a related field.
• Knowledge of analytics and AI usage, business intelligence, business strategies, competitive intelligence, customer insights, dashboards, data analysis, data visualization, economics, market intelligence, market research, marketing, new product development, Power BI, statistics, and thought leadership.
• Cross-organizational skills in effective communication, results orientation, learning agility, digital fluency, and customer centricity.

Nice To Haves

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Python, R, SQL, or Tableau skills.

Responsibilities

• Organize and lead recurring meetings, including PS Cat Ops Staff Meetings, SIOP Reviews, and Cat Ops Team Lead Meetings; distribute follow-up notes and minutes.
• Support cross-functional planning and reviews, including the Commercial Compute Product/Demand Monthly SIOP Review, alongside demand planning, category operations, and supply stakeholders.
• Develop recommendations from complex data and business analysis and formulate them into business plans.
• Establish metrics to measure business performance, set up reviews, and recommend strategies to address performance gaps.
• Staff and manage cross-functional teams across business planning activities, including recognition, nominations, and people-related coordination.
• Drive priority projects, make final team decisions, develop business plans, and proactively identify opportunities in partnership with client business leaders.
• Advise the management team on approaches for executing high-level strategies and develop creative solutions.
• Develop and execute strategies for building and nurturing long-term business relationships.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Four to twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• Eleven paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager