Culture & Team Operations Program Manager

Culture & Team Operations Program Manager

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

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.

Job Description:

Job Description

At HPE, we believe culture and seamless execution are critical drivers of business success. Our Culture & Engagement team helps create an environment where team members feel connected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We strengthen our workplace culture and help create an environment where innovation, collaboration, and performance thrive.

This role is designed for an experienced program manager who can translate strategy into structured plans, well-governed operating rhythms, and high-quality experiences. The successful candidate will bring strength to team operations, using sound judgment, creative problem-solving, and rigorous follow-through to drive measurable outcomes.

If you are passionate about shaping culture, creating exceptional team member experiences, and driving meaningful organizational impact, this may be the perfect opportunity for you.

The Opportunity

The Culture & Team Operations Program Manager serves as the connective thread across the Culture & Engagement COE, helping leaders and teams translate strategy into coordinated execution.

This role is responsible for driving operational excellence, program governance, cross-functional integration, and team effectiveness across the COE. The successful candidate will aid in establishing the operating rhythms, project management discipline, communications, and collaboration mechanisms that enable teams to execute seamlessly and avoid organizational silos.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional project and program manager who combines operational rigor with creativity, stakeholder influence, and strong communication skills. They are equally comfortable building integrated plans, facilitating leadership discussions, creating executive-ready materials, and driving alignment across different stakeholders without direct authority.

Key Responsibilities

Program & Portfolio Management

Lead end-to-end coordination of multiple Culture & Engagement initiatives, establishing clear ownership and driving timely execution from scope definition through delivery, measurement, and closeout.

• •Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and execution timelines.
• •Drive accountability and progress tracking to ensure commitments are delivered on time.
• •Establish and continuously improve project management standards, templates, tools, and governance practices across the COE.
• •Partner with leaders to prioritize work, manage competing demands, and align resources to strategic priorities.

COE Operations & Integration

• •Serve as the operational hub across the Culture & Engagement organization, connecting teams, leaders, and initiatives to ensure seamless coordination and execution.
• •Manage team operating rhythms, including leadership meetings, team meetings, business reviews, planning sessions, and retrospectives, ensuring clear agendas, decisions, ownership, and follow-through.
• •Facilitate collaboration across functions to identify dependencies, remove barriers, and reduce organizational silos.

Maintain team governance artifacts, including portfolio views, decision logs, action trackers, risk logs, calendars, repositories, and standard templates.

Use creative thinking and process design to simplify work, improve effectiveness, and create scalable operational solutions.

Communications

• •Develop executive-ready presentations, briefing materials, leadership updates, decision papers, talking points, and communications.
• •Translate complex information into concise, actionable narratives tailored to different stakeholders.
• •Support leadership communications and organizational storytelling that drive clarity, alignment, and engagement.

Support internal communication efforts that drive awareness, participation, adoption, and action.

Ensure communications are connected across teams and reinforce shared priorities and outcomes.

Facilitation & Stakeholder Engagement

• •Design and facilitate leadership meetings, team calls, planning sessions, workshops, and working sessions that result in clear decisions and actions.
• •Influence stakeholders and drive alignment across matrixed environments without direct authority.
• •Foster a collaborative environment that encourages knowledge sharing, partnership, and integrated execution.

AI-Enabled Innovation & Operational Excellence

• •Demonstrates an AI-first mindset, proactively using AI tools to improve efficiency, strengthen work products, generate insights, and enhance program delivery.
• •Leverage AI-powered tools and emerging technologies to streamline processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance the delivery of the programs.
• •Identify opportunities to improve team member and people leader experiences through AI-enabled solutions, personalized communications, targeted engagement approaches

Expected Outcomes

• •A highly connected Culture & Engagement CoE that operates as one integrated team.
• •Strong governance, clear priorities, effective decision-making, and consistent execution across the COE.
• •Improved cross-functional collaboration and reduced organizational silos.
• •Executive stakeholders receive high-quality communications, materials, and insights that support faster decision-making.
• •Teams benefit from effective operating rhythms, project management discipline, and streamlined ways of working.

Processes, tools, and operating practices are continuously simplified and improved through data, feedback, creative thinking, and AI-enabled solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• •Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• •6-8 years of experience in Human Resources, Program Management, Operations, PMO, Organizational or related functions.
• •Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• •Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives in matrixed organizations.

• •Proven experience building governance frameworks, operating rhythms, and organizational processes.
• •Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• •Experience in creating executive-level communications and presentation materials.
• •Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• •Experience using AI and digital tools to improve productivity, collaboration, and operational effectiveness.

• •Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, collaboration technologies, and project or portfolio management tools.
• •Ability to work effectively across multiple time zones and cultures.

Desired Skills & Behaviors

• •Natural connector who brings teams together and builds alignment across functions.
• •Exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills without relying on formal authority.
• •Executive presence with the ability to engage confidently with senior leaders.
• •Creative thinker who can transform concepts into compelling communications, presentations, and team experiences.
• •Strong facilitator capable of leading productive discussions, driving decisions, and ensuring follow-through.
• •Highly organized, detail-oriented, and ac