Communications Manager, Corporate Transactions; Houston, TX

Overview

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. 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.

The Corporate Transactions Communications Manager is an individual contributor, responsible for coordinating communications activities related to the Catalyst program, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, restructurings, and major company change management initiatives.

This is an opportunity to join HPE’s world-class Global Marketing and Communications team and play a central role supporting the company’s most complex and strategically important financial communications initiatives.

We are seeking an experienced Corporate Transactions Communications Manager with strong collaborative instincts and influencing ability to join our corporate communications organization. This individual contributor will be responsible for leading day-to-day communications activities for corporate actions, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, restructurings, and major company change management initiatives.

This role reports to the Financial Communications Manager and will have significant responsibility for bringing together key internal stakeholders across the company, working in close partnership with organizations within Global Marketing & Communications;
Finance & Strategy; and Operations, Legal & Administrative Affairs.

In this role, you will serve as an individual contributor and trusted execution partner supporting some of HPE’s highest-profile financial communications moments. You will be the day-to-day Global Marketing and Communications liaison for corporate action programs, transactions and special situations, and complex change management activities.

You will play a critical role in enabling transaction success, executive readiness, and stakeholder confidence. We’ll expect you to lead with collaboration – bringing together the right people and ideas – and to be able to translate complex financial and strategic topics into clear and compelling narratives. You are also key to ensuring our communications across stakeholders is disciplined, accurate, and aligned.

As a member of the Global Marketing & Communications team, you’ll work in a close-knit group of talented colleagues supporting strategic communications and the implementation of 360-degree communications plans. The team you’ll join is high performing and offers many opportunities for stretch projects that add to overall career development.

• Have a strategic mindset with a strong bias for action
• Are skilled in driving cross-functional communication planning for major event-driven moments
• Are energized by promoting continual change and proposing strategies for others to embrace change
• Thrive in collaborative, matrixed environments

Financial Communications Execution & Advisory Support:

• Serve as the day-to-day communications execution lead for corporate actions, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, restructurings, and other strategic transactions
• Lead the execution of cross-audience strategies developed for communicating corporate and financial activity that articulate strategic rationale, growth, and innovation benefits
• Stand up ad hoc teams of Global Marketing & Communications colleagues and lead creation of clear and compelling communications campaigns for internal and external…