Business Planning Manager

Business Planning Manager (Finance)

Business Planning Manager This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week 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.

Job Family Definition: Defines, manages and evaluates business plans to ensure they are operationally executable against defined strategic objectives.

Management Level Definition: Unique mastery and recognized authority on relevant subject matter knowledge including technologies, theories and techniques. Provides highly innovative solutions and leads large cross‑division functional teams.

• 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.

Typically 10+ years total experience in strategy, planning, operations, finance or related functional area. Advanced university degree required (e.g., MBA) or demonstrable equivalent experience.

• 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 analyzing 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.
• Exceptional data presentation and summarization skills.
• SaaS model experience.
• Cross‑functional leadership excellence.
• Creating and maintaining business models.
• Business forecasting with accuracy (+/- 5%).
• Licensing models.
• Pricing analysis.
• Dashboard creation and maintenance.
• Power BI experience.

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that support 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.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness.

United States of America:
Annual Salary USD 119,500 – 275,000 in Texas. The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an EEO Protected Veteran/Individual with Disabilities. HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records.