Senior Manager, Commercial Portfolio Strategy

HP•Houston, TX

13h

About The Position

Join HP’s high-impact Commercial Portfolio and Solutions Strategy team and help shape the future of HP’s commercial PC portfolio. The team sits at the center of portfolio decision-making, defining how HP competes across segments, platforms, and future roadmaps. The Senior Manager leads a team responsible for portfolio planning, prioritization, and executive storytelling across notebook and desktop (NB/DT), ensuring alignment across Product Management, Planning, and leadership. This role is for a strategic, analytically strong product leader who can work through ambiguity, clarify complex inputs, and deliver decision-grade insights that shape investment and roadmap outcomes. It drives portfolio strategy and planning across HP’s commercial PC business, builds and develops a team of strategy and portfolio leaders, and integrates planning, product management, finance, and leadership teams.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in product management, solutions or portfolio strategy, or related roles.
Proven people leadership experience, including building high-performing teams in strategy or product roles.
Strong background in product portfolio strategy, product management, or planning.
Experience with financial modeling, business cases, and prioritization frameworks.
Ability to structure complex problems, synthesize multiple inputs into clear recommendations, and drive alignment across a matrixed organization.
Strong executive communication skills and ability 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.

Nice To Haves

Experience in commercial PC, enterprise technology, or adjacent hardware/software markets.
Demonstrated experience influencing roadmap and investment decisions.
Prior experience leading or mentoring talent.
MBA or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop a team responsible for portfolio and solutions strategy, planning, and executive deliverables.
Set team direction, priorities, and quality expectations, ensuring outputs are analytical, structured, and decision-oriented.
Establish 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 leadership forums and ensure outputs are clear, credible, and actionable.
Develop end-to-end commercial portfolio strategy across notebook and desktop products.
Lead portfolio prioritization, trade-offs, and simplification across segments and platforms.
Support the future portfolio roadmap for FY27–FY28, including platform inclusion, differentiation, and investment focus.
Ensure portfolio strategy aligns with market, competitive, and financial objectives.
Oversee HP’s portfolio planning systems, such as Touchstone and APP, ensuring portfolio data is accurate, consistent, and complete.
Enable robust business case inputs and prioritization logic, and drive governance across portfolio inputs, planning cycles, and cross-functional decision forums.
Maintain a single source of truth for portfolio data and decisions.
Integrate Product Management (NB/DT), Planning, Finance, and strategy teams to align portfolio priorities, platform inclusion and exclusion decisions, assumptions, and trade-offs.
Ensure portfolio strategy translates into funded roadmap commitments and execution plans.
Lead portfolio strategy materials for executive reviews, including QBW, CEO/ELT reviews, and market updates.
Translate complex portfolio trade-offs into concise, decision-grade narratives and support the executive cadence with high-quality, insight-driven outputs.