Senior Business Strategy & Operations Manager – Channel Networking

Hewlett Packard Enterprise•Spring, TX

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

Senior Business Strategy & Operations Manager – Channel Networking This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: Help create the best Networking company on the planet! This role is the Business Strategy & Operations lead of the newly combined Networking Channel Ops organization (Aruba and Juniper). Focus includes planning and support of the management of the organization itself with budgets, talent strategy, metrics, and business reviews. Special projects will also be in scope across operations excellence, artificial intelligence, partner program enablement, policy & process improvement, and partner satisfaction projects. The global scope of this role requires background and familiarity with HPE's 2 tier channel model, operations experience, and an ability to make complex things simple through written and data-driven communications. Defines, manages, and evaluates business plans to ensure they are operationally executable against defined strategic objectives. Leads and partners with cross-functional teams to develop short-term (typically less than two years) business plans and supporting data-driven models. Prepares comprehensive implementation tactics, including execution plans, resource allocation plans, follow-up guidelines, assessment, and process accountabilities. Ensures that business activities are aligned with stated plans among different stakeholders. Sets business metrics, evaluates actual performance, and makes recommendations to business leaders on performance target achievement. Develops data-driven analyses to optimize resources and ensure that business plans can be translated into financial value.

Requirements

10+ years total experience in strategy, planning, operations, finance, or related functional area.
Advanced university degree (e.g., MBA) or demonstrable equivalent experience.
Must have extensive experience and knowledge of 2 tier channel processes
Experience with operations of a global organization - budgets, location strategy, KPIs
HPE sales operations experience a plus
Knowledge and Skills: Extensive knowledge of research methodology for the most challenging business issues.
Excellent analytical thinking, technical analysis, and data manipulation skills.
Ability to leverage new analytical techniques to develop creative approaches and insights.
Extensive knowledge of how to analyze business problems using Excel, Access, statistical analysis, and financial modeling.
Superior business acumen and technical knowledge within area of responsibility.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including negotiation and influence skills.
Excellent project management skills, including leading large, cross-functional initiatives that impact the organization.
Strong relationship management skills, including partnering and consulting.
Strong leadership skills, including team-building, conflict resolution, and management.
Ability to lead multiple, large, time sensitive projects or work streams.
Ability to identify emerging trends from market and industry data, and make clear and compelling business planning recommendations.
Additional Skills: Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Decisions, Business Development, Business Metrics, Business Performance, Business Strategies, Calendar Management, Coaching, Computer Literacy, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Leadership, Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Personal Initiative + 5 more

Responsibilities

Develops recommendation from complex data and business analyses 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.
Develop business plans and proactively identify 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

Benefits

Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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