Enterprise Thought Leadership Program Management Lead

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP; Spring (TX); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking an experienced Enterprise Thought Leadership Program Management Lead to scale its thought leadership activations across enterprise technology. This hybrid role collaborates with Global Communications, Global Marketing, and external media partners to shape strategies and measure business impact.

You will manage budgets, partner with sales and finance, and coordinate executive speakers for activations, ensuring alignment with go-to-market plans and 360-degree

Qualifications

• BA or BS in Communications, Marketing, or related field.
• 7+ years in corporate communications, media relations, or marketing.
• Previous program management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead program management aspects of thought leadership activations.
• Coordinate with media partners from planning through on-site execution and post-event follow-up.
• Drive 360-degree communications plans across paid, earned, owned, and social channels.

Skills

Strategic mindset

B2B tech experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive stakeholder mgmt

Education

BA/BS in Communications, Marketing, or related field

Job description

Enterprise Thought Leadership Program Management Lead

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:

This is an opportunity to join HPE’s world-class Global Communications team. With scores of communicators across the globe, we advocate for HPE's corporate strategy, business innovation, and thought leadership. We're looking for an experienced and strategic Enterprise Thought Leadership Program Management Lead to help scale HPE's enterprise thought leadership program, which is a key pillar of the Corporate & Financial Communications team designed to connect HPE within the most influential conversations shaping the technology industry. This role sits at the intersection of communications, marketing, and business strategy and partners with external leading media organizations and event platforms. By showcasing HPE’s innovation, we position HPE as a leading voice on the trends transforming enterprise technology in the AI era, and work to enhance our company’s reputation, credibility, and business impact. This is an ideal opportunity for a highly collaborative communicator who excels in shaping and managing operational aspects of a highly visible program. We are seeking a candidate with demonstrable leadership qualities who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys creating new structures and workflows, and can translate strategy into measurable business impact. The successful candidate will work in a close-knit group of high-performing colleagues that offers many opportunities that add to overall career development. The candidate will continually collaborate with Global Communications and Marketing colleagues and connect across our business unit portfolio in networking, hybrid cloud, and AI to drive the implementation of 360-degree communications plans tied to HPE’s Enterprise Thought Leadership Program activations. The candidate will help support thought leadership activations, including by evaluating potential media partnerships, planning and budgeting for future sponsorships, coordinating messaging amplification strategies, event execution, and measuring and reporting on impacts and outcomes. You’ll help us coordinate multiple elements of each thought leadership activation, centering on a 360 communications plan that relies heavily on internal alignment to engage executive stakeholders and manage media partners. You’ll do well in this role if you are a strategic thinker who is used to creating rigorous alignment agendas.

Responsibilities:

• Lead program management aspects of our thought leadership activations
• Manage execution with media partners, from planning and engagement to on-site execution and post-event follow-through—ensuring each moment is purposeful, differentiated, and maximizes targets for amplification and audience engagement
• Drive 360-degree communications plans and amplification strategies that extend thought leadership across paid, earned, owned, and social channels to maximize HPE’s thought leadership activations with “beyond the moment” elements
• Ensure each activation incorporates a go-to-market emphasis with customers and prospective customers by partnering with Global Marketing and Global Sales representatives
• Lead budgeting aspects of the program, including evaluating sponsorship packages against return on investment targets, and tracking future partnership opportunities
• Measure the impact of each thought leadership activation, helping define and track success across reach, engagement, influence, and pipeline outcomes, building a framework for thought leadership metrics
• Support collaboration efforts with executive communications leaders in Global Communications to identify and prepare executive speakers for thought leadership moments
• Assist in managing new and existing media partner relationships on an ongoing basis
• Onboard new partners to the program, partnering with HPE Finance and HPE Procurement

What you bring:

• A strategic mindset with the ability to connect big ideas to business impact
• Experience in B2B technology, communications, or marketing with a strong understanding of importance of amplification across diverse business-oriented audiences
• Strength in partnering with colleagues across business units to support the development of thought leadership activations, amplified across channels
• A collaborative approach, with the ability to partner across highly matrixed teams
• A bias for action—balancing strategy with hands‑on execution to maximize impact

Education and Experience Required:

• BA or BS in Communications, Marketing, Journalism, Business Administration, public relations, English, political science, International Relations, or other Liberal Arts disciplines.
• 7+ years of experience in corporate communications, media relations, team member communications, program management, or marketing.
• Previous program management and/or project management experience

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong organization and program management skills.
• Advanced writing and editing skills - very minimal peer or manager edits needed.
• Proficiency in presentation development.
• Strong listening and interpersonal skills.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of communications methodologies, tools and vehicles.
• Proven experience managing, leading, driving teams toward a common goal.
• High levels of tact and diplomacy.
• Agency and budget management.
• Preference for candidate based in the greater Houston, Texas area.

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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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Job: Communications

Job Level: Expert

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 92,600 - 213,500 in 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

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