Senior Manager, Strategy & Transformation

Senior Manager, Strategy & Transformation

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:

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. Varied backgrounds are valued and successful at HPE. We provide the flexibility to manage 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.

Job Description:

The HPE Strategy & Transformation team for Hybrid Cloud is a dynamic organization responsible for working with executive leadership of Hybrid Cloud business unit in advancing the BU strategy and driving key strategic transformation projects. Additional core responsibilities of the team include managing product portfolio, driving strategic business cadence (strategic business reviews, long-term financial planning etc.), preparing updates for the executive committee/ board and driving cross-functional transformation initiatives. We partner closely with Product, Technology, GTM and Finance functions to deliver on our priorities.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Strategy & Transformation (AI PDLC), to lead the transition to Agentic AI led Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC) process for our key product segments. The successful candidate in this role will lead the redesign of our operating model, workflow, processes and enable change to drive adoption and outcomes.

This role will be responsible for helping design the future state Agentic AI operating model across Product Management, Engineering and Quality Assurance functions. Role will bridge strategy and execution to drive enablement of PDLC org at scale.

The successful candidate will work closely with senior business and technology leaders to assess the current state, define future state operating model/ processes/ workflows, drive stakeholder alignment and lead change management initiatives.

The successful candidate would combine operating model expertise, enterprise transformation leadership and organizational change capabilities to help shape the future of PDLC at HPE.

Responsibilities

• •Lead the redesign of Product, Engineering and QA operating models, workflows, processes, organizational structures, governance mechanisms, roles, decision rights to enable an Agentic-AI native product development lifecycle
• •Help conduct comprehensive assessment of current state PDLC operating model including workflows, handovers, context management etc.
• •Facilitate cross-functional design workshops with Product, Solution Architecture, Engineering, QA leadership to brainstorm future state operating model choices
• •Define future state operating model choices that integrate human and Agentic AI workflows across Product Management, Engineering and QA workflows
• •Highlight trade-offs of different operating model choices, align stakeholders and redesign workflows/ handover templates/ packages
• •Define future state Human/Agentic AI responsibilities and ownership boundaries, establish decision rights and governance frameworks
• •Develop blueprints for future state process maps, role definitions and implementation roadmaps
• •Design AI CoE and capability building approaches
• •Design and Execute change management strategy, including stakeholder engagement plan and communications strategy
• •Prepare materials for senior leadership reviews and facilitate decisions

Experience and Education

• •6+ years of experience in management consulting, strategy, organizational transformation, technology transformations or operating model redesign roles
• •Demonstrated experience leading technology or enterprise transformation projects and expertise in operating model or organizational redesign
• •Must have strong knowledge of the Product Development lifecycle (PDLC) and software engineering best practices
• •Experience with strategic and operational project management, cross-functional stakeholder management
• •Bachelor's degree required. Advanced university degree (e.g., MBA) preferred.

Knowledge and skills

• •Expertise in operating model redesign, organizational transformation, governance frameworks and decision rights in large enterprises
• •Experience in redesigning product management, engineering and QA operating model for AI native ways of working is preferred
• •Ability to translate emerging technology capabilities into scalable operating model, governance and organizational design choices
• •Experience in leading transformation initiatives from strategy through implementation and adoption
• •Strong relationship management skills, including partnering and consulting senior executives
• •Superior group facilitation, interviewing, and influencing skills
• •Excellent analytical thinking, analysis, and problem-solving skills
• •Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• •Proven ability to work in high-performance teams

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.

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Business Planning Job Level:

Master

• "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
• – United States of America: Annual Salary USD 126,000 - 239,000 in Colorado // 135,500 - 275,000 in California & New York // 119,500 - 275,000 in Georgia & North Carolina & Texas
• The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered."

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

The estimated job application period closure is October 26 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one glob