Sustainable Technology Program Lead

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Spring, TX

42d • Remote

About The Position

As a global technology company, HPE is committed to minimizing the environmental impacts of our industry while harnessing the transformative, positive outcomes that technology enables. The Sustainable Technology Program Lead is a critical member of the Living Progress team, responsible for helping shape HPE’s sustainable technology strategy and leading execution of the strategy by engaging across the company to drive toward our goals and vision. HPE is consistently recognized as a sustainability leader and has an ambitious target to transform into a net-zero company by 2040. As we further embed sustainability across our business, we are focused on innovating towards more sustainable products and solutions aligned to customer and industry needs. The Sustainable Technology Program Lead will administer and grow HPE’s Sustainable Technology Program, our cross-company effort to institutionalize sustainable product design. They will be responsible for tracking execution towards our sustainable technology strategy, engaging with HPE’s technical community to expand knowledge of sustainable technology and build momentum for sustainability innovation, as well as assessing the impact of the program through newly developed metrics. They will also contribute to our evolving sustainable tech strategy by monitoring industry and customer trends, tracking HPE and competitor product development, and providing expertise in technology sustainability. The role will reside within the Product Sustainability and Innovation team, focused on building a more sustainable portfolio of solutions for our customers, and will partner closely with the product and offering business units and HPE’s technical teams across the company. This position requires extensive coordination at all levels of the company, robust organizational and business acumen, excellent communication skills, technical knowledge, as well as the ability to synthesize complex business problems to devise and execute on plans that address big challenges and opportunities in the environmental sustainability space. Strong sustainability subject matter expertise is highly desirable.

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Consensus-building and conflict-resolution skills to drive buy-in from executives and individual contributors to execute programs.
• Ability to manage cross-functional teams and develop an understanding of the HPE business and overall business strategy.
• Strategy and execution, ability to digest multiple teams’ strategies across the organization and develop both company-wide strategies as well as the individual success measures necessary to help track execution against these strategies.
• Project and program management skills – excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Systems thinking and ability to consider how to drive diverse projects concurrently and complimentarily, including projects within team and outside of team scope.
• Bachelor's OR Master’s Degree in Business, Science, Engineering, or related field
• 6+ years’ experience in program or project management, engineering, operations, business planning or other similar roles
• Accountability
• Action Planning
• Active Learning
• Active Listening
• Agile Methodology
• Agile Scrum Development
• Analytical Thinking
• Bias
• Coaching
• Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Functional Teamwork
• Data Analysis Management
• Data Collection Management (Inactive)
• Data Controls
• Design
• Design Thinking
• Empathy
• Follow-Through
• Group Problem Solving
• Growth Mindset
• Long Term Planning
• Managing Ambiguity

Nice To Haves

• Advanced understanding of sustainable design, corporate or government sustainability programs.
• Aptitude to learn/understand global sustainability related policies, regulations, standards, and literature.
• Proven cross-functional project management and leadership skills, leading to positive organizational change.
• Track record of driving results through deep and resourceful collaboration.
• Experience tracking and monitoring market trends and opportunities.
• Analytical thinking skills.
• Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive)

Responsibilities

• Administer and grow HPE’s Sustainable Technology Program through creativity and program management expertise.
• Track execution towards our sustainable tech strategy by organizing: business units’ updates on their sustainability priorities, regular cross-company meetings of sustainable technology leaders, periodic surveys of the sustainable technology portfolio and roadmap.
• Manage sustainable technology resources including technical guides, trainings, and internal website.
• Increase engagement of HPE’s technical community with sustainable technology through: periodic events, timely and coordinated communications, training campaigns, involvement with other HPE technical and innovation programs.
• Develop and track metrics to assess the impact of the Sustainable Technology Program.
• Monitor industry and customer trends; combine market information with technology sustainability expertise to make strategy and portfolio recommendations.

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.

What This Job Offers

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