Chief of Staff - Strategy & Business Planning Lead, Design to Operate Value Stream

Chief of Staff - Strategy & Business Planning Lead, Design to Operate Value Stream Description
-About the opportunity HP’s Design to Operate (D2O) Value Stream team drives end-to-end digital enablement and transformation across the processes, technology, and operating capabilities that support the journey from product design through operational execution, in close partnership with the Global Business Units (PS, Print and HPS).We are seeking a strategic, highly organized, and execution-oriented senior professional to serve as the Strategy & Business Planning Lead for the Design to Operate Value Stream.

This person will act as an operating partner to the VP, Head of D2O Value Stream, helping a 200+ person organization run with clarity, discipline, and speed while ensuring the team is well represented with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.

The ideal candidate is a strong collaborator and executive communicator who can manage a continual flow of leadership requests, synthesize complex digital transformation work into crisp narratives, maintain financial and operational discipline, and drive coordination across leaders, work streams, and peer Chief of Staff / business operations teams.

This role will connect strategic planning, executive communications, organizational operations, and cross-functional execution. The ideal candidate brings sound judgment, discretion, strong business acumen, and the ability to turn complex transformation work into clear decisions, compelling narratives, and measurable results.

Key responsibilities

Strategic partnership and executive effectiveness

Serve as a trusted advisor to the Design to Operate Value Stream leader, helping shape priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, and advance the team’s strategic agenda.

Translate leadership priorities into actionable plans with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and measures of success.

Manage the flow of executive requests and emerging issues, ensuring the right matters receive leadership attention and timely follow-through.

Prepare the value stream leader for key meetings and decisions through briefings, stakeholder context, recommendations, and decision materials.

Represent the leader’s priorities in designated forums and drive alignment and follow-through on leadership decisions.

Executive communications and storytelling

Develop high-quality presentations and communications for C-suite and senior executive audiences, including strategy updates, operating reviews, transformation narratives, investment cases, and progress reports.

Partner with value stream leaders and subject matter experts to translate process, technology, and operational work into clear business narratives and measurable outcomes for HP.Ensure leadership communications consistently reflect the value stream’s strategy, priorities, commitments, and impact.

Establish reusable communication frameworks and recurring forums that strengthen understanding of the team’s work across HP.Operating rhythm and organizational effectiveness

Own the team’s leadership operating cadence, including staff meetings, business reviews, progress checkpoints, team-wide meetings, planning cycles, and offsites.

Drive the annual and quarterly planning, aligning goals, OKRs and owners are clear across the value stream.

Track progress against strategic commitments, surface risks and gaps, and work with leaders to resolve issues and maintain execution.

Coordinate internally facing initiatives that improve team effectiveness, coordination, engagement, planning discipline, and cross-functional alignment.

Partner with finance, HR, and Applied AI leadership to maintain budget, forecast, headcount, contractor, vendor, and investment trackers.

Cross-functional alignment and transformation

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