Enterprise Thought Leadership Program Management Lead

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement 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.

This is an opportunity to join HPE’s world-class Global Communications team. With scores of communicators across the globe, we advocate for HPE's corporate strategy, business innovation, and thought leadership. We're looking for an experienced and strategic Enterprise Thought Leadership Program Management Lead to help scale HPE's enterprise thought leadership program, which is a key pillar of the Corporate & Financial Communications team designed to connect HPE within the most influential conversations shaping the technology industry.

This role sits at the intersection of communications, marketing, and business strategy and partners with external leading media organizations and event platforms. By showcasing HPE’s innovation, we position HPE as a leading voice on the trends transforming enterprise technology in the AI era, and work to enhance our company’s reputation, credibility, and business impact. This is an ideal opportunity for a highly collaborative communicator who excels in shaping and managing operational aspects of a highly visible program.

We are seeking a candidate with demonstrable leadership qualities who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys creating new structures and workflows, and can translate strategy into measurable business impact. The successful candidate will work in a close-knit group of high-performing colleagues that offers many opportunities that add to overall career development. The candidate will continually collaborate with Global Communications and Marketing colleagues and connect across our business unit portfolio in networking, hybrid cloud, and AI to drive the implementation of 360-degree communications plans tied to HPE’s Enterprise Thought Leadership Program activations.

The candidate will help support thought leadership activations, including by evaluating potential media partnerships, planning and budgeting for future sponsor ships, coordinating messaging amplification strategies, event execution, and measuring and reporting on impacts and outcomes. You’ll help us coordinate multiple elements of each thought leadership activation, centering on a 360 communications plan that relies heavily on internal alignment to engage executive stakeholders and manage media partners.

You’ll do well in this role if you are a strategic thinker who is used to creating rigorous alignment agendas.

• Lead program management aspects of our thought leadership activations
• Manage execution with media partners, from planning and engagement to on-site execution and post-event follow-through—ensuring each moment is purposeful, differentiated, and maximizes targets for amplification and audience engagement
• Drive 360-degree communications plans and amplification strategies that extend thought leadership across paid, earned, owned, and social channels to maximize HPE’s thought…