Senior Manager, Commercial Portfolio Strategy

HP • Houston, TX

2d • Remote

About The Position

Join HP’s high-impact, high-visibility Commercial Portfolio and Solutions Strategy team and help shape the future of HP’s commercial PC portfolio. This team sits at the center of portfolio decision-making—defining how HP competes across segments, platforms, and future roadmaps. The Senior Manager of Commercial Portfolio Strategy leads a team responsible for portfolio planning, prioritization, and executive storytelling across NB/DT, ensuring alignment across Product Management, Planning, and leadership. This is an opportunity for a strategic, analytically strong product leader who thrives in ambiguity, drives clarity across complex inputs, and delivers decision-grade insights that shape investment and roadmap outcomes.

Requirements

• Proven people leader with experience building high-performing teams in strategy or product roles
• Strong background in: Product portfolio strategy / product management / planning and Financial modeling, business cases, and prioritization frameworks
• Ability to: Structure complex problems and synthesize multiple inputs into clear recommendations and drive alignment across a matrixed organization
• Strong executive communication skills—able to deliver concise, high-impact narratives
• Understanding of commercial PC market dynamics, including: Competitive positioning, Platform strategy and Cost / performance trade-offs
• High comfort with ambiguity and competing priorities
• 10+ years of experience in product management, solutions or portfolio strategy, or related roles
• Experience in commercial PC, enterprise technology, or adjacent hardware/software markets preferred
• Demonstrated experience influencing roadmap and investment decisions
• Prior experience leading or mentoring talent strongly preferred
• MBA or equivalent experience a plus

Responsibilities

• Drive portfolio strategy and planning processes across HP’s commercial PC business
• Build and develop a high-performing team of strategy and portfolio leaders
• Serve as a key integrator across planning, PM, finance, and leadership teams
• Lead, coach, and develop a team responsible for portfolio and solutions strategy, planning, and executive deliverables
• Set clear direction, priorities, and quality expectations; ensure team outputs are analytical, structured, and decision-oriented
• Establish strong operating rhythms across planning cycles, portfolio reviews, and leadership updates
• Build team capability in portfolio modeling, trade-off analysis, and executive storytelling
• Represent Portfolio Strategy in key leadership forums, ensuring outputs are clear, credible, and actionable
• Drive development of end-to-end commercial portfolio strategy across NB/DT
• Lead portfolio prioritization, trade-offs, and simplification efforts across segments and platforms
• Support definition of future portfolio roadmap (FY27–FY28) including platform inclusion, differentiation, and investment focus
• Ensure alignment of portfolio strategy with market, competitive, and financial objectives
• Oversee operation of HP’s portfolio planning systems (e.g., Touchstone / APP): Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness
• Enable robust business case inputs and prioritization logic
• Drive governance across: Portfolio inputs, Planning cycles, Cross-functional decision forums
• Maintain a single source of truth for portfolio data and decisions
• Act as a key integrator across: Product Management (NB/DT), Planning teams, Finance and strategy, System managers
• Drive alignment on: Portfolio priorities, Platform inclusion/exclusion decisions
• Ensure portfolio strategy translates into funded roadmap commitments and execution plans
• Lead development of portfolio strategy materials for executive reviews, including: QBW, CEO / ELT reviews, Market updates
• Translate complex portfolio trade-offs into clear, concise, decision-grade narratives
• Support ongoing executive cadence with high-quality, insight-driven outputs

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

What This Job Offers

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