Strategic Programs Manager

This role has been designed as 'Onsite' with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

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.

HPE Networking is seeking a highly motivated, forward-thinking Strategic Program Manager to help execute key business priorities across the edge-to-cloud portfolio. This role requires strong strategic and technical acumen, a clear understanding of networking products and functionality, and excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaborating with internal stakeholders, third party vendors and external customers and partners.

• Implement new design builds aligned to product roadmaps while managing shifting timelines, schedules, and planning activities.
• Accountable for overseeing ongoing enablement of complex configuration capabilities within the networking solution design tool
• Responsible for end-to-end content delivery ensuring continued accuracy of compatibility rules, and other critical product related information
• Conduct product and solution design reviews and oversee vendor modeling to ensure accurate placement of components prior to implementing in a live environment
• Maintain content accuracy, and business rules logic to ensure a customer-friendly experience for the HPE partner community
• Plan and lead strategic projects that increase visibility for HPE Networking’s most significant new offerings

Proactively engage with product management, initiate key conversations, lead solution design discussions, and oversee vendor engagements and interactions in alignment with HPE standards of business conduct.

The ideal candidate is execution-oriented, business-first, and comfortable discussing and designing complex configured solutions for networking in a fast-growing environment. This person combines strategic thinking, technical depth, relationship-building skills, and strong communication skills interacting with internal teams, customers, and partners.

The candidate should bring both technical and business experience and have a good understanding of networking hardware configuration, software and software-as-a-service (SAAS) models.

• 6-10 years’ work experience in strategy, planning, operations, finance, or related functional area.
• Advanced university degree (e.g., MBA) or demonstrable equivalent.

• Extensive knowledge of research methodology for key business issues.
• Excellent analytical thinking, technical analysis, and data manipulation skills.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of how to analyze business problems
• A good understanding for networking deployments, in campus, branch and data center
• Strong business acumen and technical knowledge within area of responsibility
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Very strong project management skills, including leading large, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong relationship management skills, including partnering and consulting
• Developed leadership skills, including team-building, conflict resolution, and management
• Ability to identify emerging trends from market and industry data

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.

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