Chief of Staff - Strategy & Business Planning Lead, Design to Operate Value Stream

HP; Houston (TX); Presencial; USD 116.000 - 182.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Generous paid time off

Descripción de la vacante

HP is seeking a senior operations/Chief of Staff-like leader in the United States to partner with the Design to Operate Value Stream leader, shaping priorities and translating them into actionable plans with clear owners and milestones. You will prepare leadership for decisions and drive alignment across HP’s functions.

You will develop high-quality executive communications for the C-suite, translate complex initiatives into compelling narratives, and manage the team’s operating rhythm, budgets,

Formación

• Partner with senior executives and handle sensitive information with discretion.
• Create clear, concise executive presentations and materials.
• Translate objectives into coordinated plans with measurable results.
• Understand budgets, resource planning, investment tradeoffs, and metrics.
• Manage competing priorities and deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Collaborate across functions to drive alignment and outcomes.
• Understand end-to-end processes and translate into priorities.

Responsabilidades

• Strategic partnership and executive effectiveness—translate priorities into actionable plans with owners, milestones, and measures.
• Executive communications and storytelling—develop presentations for C-suite with measurable outcomes.
• Operating rhythm and organizational effectiveness—own planning cycles, OKRs, and governance.
• Cross-functional alignment and transformation—coordinate initiatives and drive leadership alignment.

Conocimientos

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Business acumen

Prioritization

Collaboration

Process understanding

Educación

Bachelor's degree

MBA

MS

Descripción del empleo

Key responsibilities

• Strategic partnership and executive effectiveness Serve as a trusted advisor to the Design to Operate Value Stream leader, helping shape priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, and advance the team’s strategic agenda. Translate leadership priorities into actionable plans with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and measures of success. Manage the flow of executive requests and emerging issues, ensuring the right matters receive leadership attention and timely follow-through. Prepare the value stream leader for key meetings and decisions through briefings, stakeholder context, recommendations, and decision materials. Represent the leader’s priorities in designated forums and drive alignment and follow-through on leadership decisions.
• Executive communications and storytelling Develop high-quality presentations and communications for C-suite and senior executive audiences, including strategy updates, operating reviews, transformation narratives, investment cases, and progress reports. Partner with value stream leaders and subject matter experts to translate process, technology, and operational work into clear business narratives and measurable outcomes for HP. Ensure leadership communications consistently reflect the value stream’s strategy, priorities, commitments, and impact. Establish reusable communication frameworks and recurring forums that strengthen understanding of the team’s work across HP.
• Operating rhythm and organizational effectiveness Own the team’s leadership operating cadence, including staff meetings, business reviews, progress checkpoints, team-wide meetings, planning cycles, and offsites. Drive the annual and quarterly planning, aligning goals, OKRs and owners are clear across the value stream. Track progress against strategic commitments, surface risks and gaps, and work with leaders to resolve issues and maintain execution. Coordinate internally facing initiatives that improve team effectiveness, coordination, engagement, planning discipline, and cross-functional alignment. Partner with finance, HR, and Applied AI leadership to maintain budget, forecast, headcount, contractor, vendor, and investment trackers.
• Cross-functional alignment and transformation Serve as a central coordination point between the Design to Operate Value Stream team and partners across business functions, Digital, and the broader HP organization. Support alignment across process owners, business stakeholders, and technology teams to advance end-to-end transformation. Engage regularly with Chiefs of Staffs, strategy teams, and peer organizations across HP to share information, resolve dependencies, and align on enterprise initiatives. Lead or coordinate high-priority special projects for Digital, especially initiatives that cut across multiple teams or require executive visibility. Bring structured problem solving, analytical rigor, and practical judgment to ambiguous business and operating challenges. Identify emerging issues and opportunities, develop recommendations, and mobilize stakeholders to drive action.

Required capabilities and qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in business operations, strategy and planning, Chief of Staff roles, program / portfolio management, transformation, consulting, or a related field. Demonstrated ability to partner with senior executives, exercise independent judgment, and handle sensitive information with discretion.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to create clear, concise, visually compelling presentations and decision materials.
• Strong strategic thinking and execution skills, with a track record of turning broad objectives into coordinated plans and measurable results.
• Strong business acumen and financial literacy, including experience with budgets, resource planning, investment tradeoffs, and operational metrics.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, complex stakeholder requests, and fast-moving deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust, navigate organizational complexity, and drive outcomes without direct authority.
• Ability to understand end-to-end business processes, enterprise technology, and operational dependencies and translate them into business priorities and operating plans.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA, MS, or another advanced degree preferred.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting a VP-level or senior executive leadership team in a Chief of Staff, business planning, strategy, or operations capacity.
• Experience driving enterprise transformation and coordinating initiatives across multiple functions.
• Familiarity with value stream management, process improvement, change management, and enterprise systems.
• Experience defining and tracking transformation outcomes, including efficiency, quality, cycle time, cost, and adoption.
• Experience designing and improving operating mechanisms for a complex organization, including OKRs, portfolio and roadmap reviews, executive dashboards, and leadership cadences.

Pay & Benefits

The pay range for this role is $116,150 to $182,400 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America 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 https://hpbenefits.ce.alight.com/

Job - Data & Information Technology

Schedule - Full time

Shift - No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel - 25%

Relocation - No

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