Business Planning Manager

The base pay range for this role is $104,800 up to $149,350 annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to US candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including:
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

Job Summary

The successful candidate will lead, coordinate, and manage the process of collecting, prioritizing, and communicating help needed requests from various geographical sales markets. This role requires engaging with markets to understand their needs and working closely with the Global Business Unit (GBU) to align on the path forward.

Key responsibilities include project management, aligning with partner teams on organizational metrics and targets, and partnering with finance and market enablement teams to analyze business results trends. The candidate will present analysis and recommendations to senior management at various forums and drive training on business tools to enhance and develop these tools further.

Additionally, the role involves financial and operational analysis of different components of the MS business to address ad-hoc requests by management. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management, data analysis, and business tool training, with a proven ability to align cross-functional teams and drive organizational success.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coordinate & manage the process of collecting, prioritizing and communicating help needed requests from geographical sales markets
• Project management
• Engaging with markets to understand needs and working with GBU to align on path forward
• Leads cross-functional teams across the entire span of business planning activities.
• Align with partner teams on organizational metrics and targets
• Partner with finance, market enablement and other teams to analyze trends in business results
• Presenting analysis and recommendations with senior management at various forums
• Drive training on business tools to enable further enhancement and development of tools
• Understanding the P&L and trends of different components of the MS business for ad-hoc requests by management
• Demonstrates a high level of business acumen and technical expertise in areas such as business planning, operational management, and financial analysis.

Education & Experience

• Four-year Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics or other related discipline
• Typically has 7-10 years of work experience, preferably in strategy, planning, operations, finance, or a related field.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong analytical mind
• Problem Solving Skills
• Project Management Skills
• Process Management
• Relationship building
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Data Analysis
• XaaS business knowledge
• Knowledge of financial metrics
• Thought Leadership
• Business Intelligence
• Business Strategies
• Competitive Intelligence
• Data Visualization
• Customer Insights
• Economics

Cross-Org Skills

• Effective Communication
• Results Orientation
• Learning Agility
• Digital Fluency
• Customer Centricity

Impact & Scope
Impacts multiple teams and may act as a team or project leader providing direction to team activities and facilitates information validation and team decision making process.

Complexity
Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.

Disclaimer
This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.