Vice President Portfolio Management, Solutions & Experiences

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate advanced knowledge in defining a strategy to win – the ‘why HP’ drivers of differentiation and scale.
• Lead and deliver an integrated Commercial System’s portfolio vision and strategy for differentiated products and solutions with reconcilable differences, leveraging the broader HP portfolio and alliance partnership relationships aligned with the strategy to win in the market.
• Drive integrated product vision and strategy across the HP GBUs, functions and key partner alliances to bring to life, “better together” a One HP enabled AI enabled PC, experience & solutions.
• Responsible for Customer Journey Mapping process to ensure we are delivering important and meaningful customer value across the portfolio.
• Disciplined product lifecycle management governance, ensuring seamless and high impact new product introduction, leading lifecycle management activities between key stakeholder organizations, e.g., NPI, Category, Sales, R&D.
• Defines and continually refines the product roadmap, synthesizing customer insights, industry trends, market input, technology roadmaps, and all initiatives for operational excellence.
• Provides thought-leadership on new Commercial PC solution offerings as well as refreshes.
• Delivering profitable growth with sustained HP differentiation across the product line.
• Responsible for long-term business forecasting and marketing budget recommendations.
• Communicates strategy and technology roadmaps to executive staff, industry partners, and customers; leverages recognized technical and business expertise to influence, guide, and shape business strategy and decision-making at the highest organizational levels.
• Maintains and nurtures relationships with our alliance and key technology partners at the executive level.
• Requires strong and close collaboration across multiple business to ensure we continue to deliver consistent commercial capabilities across the portfolio.
• Consults with business leaders at the L2 and L1 levels to drive and influence strategic decision-making within a broad scope (e.g., mitigating risk, approving significant programs/deals).

Requirements

• First level university degree with a focus in Marketing, Business, or Engineering; advanced degree strongly preferred.
• Typically, 12+ years of experience in product marketing or exhibiting an exceptionally strong background in some other relevant and applicable area of business.
• Previous VP level PC Product marketing domain experience.
• Knowledge and skills as outlined in the 'Skills' section.

Qualifications

• Education and experience as outlined above.

Skills

• Thought leadership: demonstrated advanced knowledge in the domain of expertise.
• Hunger to continuously learn from the industry and drive change necessary to deliver next compelling next generation product innovation.
• Understanding of PC market.
• Superior ability to provide consultation to senior leaders within area of expertise.
• Excellent communication skills with a particular focus on the ability to communicate with and synthesize insights from customers, IT decision makers, and channel partners.
• Excellent communication skills catered to a wide variety of audiences, including C-Suite executives.
• Superior ability to communicate complex ideas and alternatives.
• Excellent consulting, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Strong analytical skills, structured thinking, and problem-solving skills to direct team toward the right decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to grow and develop high performance teams.
• Superior ability to build partnerships across functions, multiple GBU’s, and external partners.
• Ability to clearly communicate strategy and complex concepts, ideas, and alternatives.
• Strong analytical skills, structured thinking and problem-solving skills to direct team and key partners on strategic priorities for the business.
• Superior understanding of product design and current product management.
• In-depth experience working with selling partners, R&D or customers.
• Excellent project management and prioritization skills.
• Excellent people management skills, including managing teams across geographies.
• Strong ability to build relationships and strong partnerships with internal and external partners.
• Excellent consulting, influencing, and negotiation skills.

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)