Strategic People Initiatives Program Manager

Strategic People Initiatives Program Manager

Description -

At HP, we believe in the power of ideas. Our vision is to create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere - every person, every organization, and every community around the globe. This motivates us - inspires us - to do what we do. To make what we want. To invent, and to reinvent. To engineer experiences that amaze.

The Organization

The People Organization (PO) is at the center of enabling business priorities, transformation, and readiness for the future. Accelerating efforts to be future ready requires a focus on scalable solutions, leaning into different ways of working, and execution at pace. This is the mission of the Enterprise Initiatives and Planning team (EIP): to establish an enterprise level approach for "future focused" initiatives that drive impact across HP.

The Role

You will be part of the EIP team. As a Strategic Initiatives Program Manager on the team, you will collaborate with peers and stakeholders across the PO / enterprise applying and leveraging subject matter knowledge to bring innovative solutions forward that support common people priorities designed that enable business strategies. You will be encouraged to apply creative and innovative thinking to solve customer pain points where no or sub-optimal solutions exist today .

This role will report into the VP of Enterprise Strategic Initiatives.

Key responsibilities:

• Act as the program manager for enterprise-wide people priorities tied to strategic "future focused" initiatives. This means framing the strategy, defining the plans, and driving operational execution for initiatives under your purview.
• Develop and implement clear charters, governance, roadmap, objectives and key results, and management of change approach for each strategic initiate led working with senior leaders in PO and the business to shape the focus of the initiative for maximum impact to the enterprise
• Build the business case for each initiative leveraging internal and external data to articulate the enterprise benefits, assist with stakeholder alignment and investments required for successful execution.
• Define, establish and lead the team of essential contributors required to execute on the business outcomes
• Manage a review cadence with project teams to assess progress against milestones, issues and areas requiring additional support
• Leverage the expertise of PO peers (COEs, Client Facing People Partners, business) to develop and implement effective change management strategies
• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that solutions are implemented in a way that minimizes disruption and maximizes adoption.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of solutions implemented to adjust plans as needed.
• Lead in preparing progress updates for leadership reviews.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Project management firepower: ability to plan and manage multiple, complex, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment and see them through completion at a high level of quality, speed, and with high satisfaction from all partners
• Data driven / analytical: Be an analytical problem solver that leverages data to drive the necessary analyses, help inform recommendations and influence stakeholders
• Strategic thinking with ability to turn into an operational plan for execution.
• Effective communicator: ability to communicate complex concepts and quantitative insights concisely, with actionable so-what
• Stakeholder Management: Experience managing stakeholders and priorities in a matrix environment with multiple influencers
• Effective collaborator and partner: ability to effectively lead large initiatives through others by fostering a productive, creative and results oriented approach. Successful at building alliances and relationships with stakeholders at all levels to rally support towards common goals
• Business insight / judgment: Ability to prioritize focus of effort and inquiry with an eye to business impact / outcomes
• Transformation and Change Leadership: Proven ability to tackle ambiguous, complex opportunities and bring teams / stakeholders along through the change journey
• Continuous improvement mindset: ability to seek out and implement internal or external best practices. Intellectual curiosity, with a strong desire to learn new processes and systems

Complexity of Initiatives:

• Works on projects where enterprise and or function level alignment may not exist and influences key stakeholder groups to establish that along with any other necessary support needed.
• Works on efforts where industry or market data may not exist and sees the opportunity to "set the standard" for HP and, possibly, the industry.
• Works on efforts where HP processes may not exist or are sub-optimal and sees the opportunity to "think outside" the box to streamline internal processes to do what's right for the business and its people.

Behaviors:

• Fast paced / bias towards immediate actions and results.
• Agile work approach with the ability to quickly adjust to changing conditions, moving priorities, and market environment.
• Creative problem solving and challenging the status quo.
• Lead with a positive attitude and empathy.
• Demonstrates integrity, trustworthiness, and humility.
• Thinks holistically about implications of initiative plans to the business / function in the context of other inflight efforts.

Education and Experience Required:

• MBA or equivalent graduate degree.
• 15+ years with large scale program management and implementation (strategy, planning and execution).

The base pay range for this role is $115,850 - $178,400 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)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Job -
Business Planning

Schedule -
Full time

Shift -
No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel -

Relocation -
No

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) -

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