Director, Workforce Enablement

Director, Workforce Enablement

This role has been designated as ‘Edge’, which means you will primarily work outside of an HPE office.

In this role, you will be an integral part of the Business Management Systems and Enablement leadership team within HPC & AI business group, reporting to VP, Business Management Systems and Enablement.

Business Management Systems and Enablement is a newly formed function within HPC and AI’s Customer Success and Solution Engineering business group. We are here to build a high-performing team and capabilities to drive end-to-end operations across the business group, including interfacing with key support functions and stakeholders to ensure we meet our internal and external commitments.

Leader in this role will be accountable for designing, building and running a Workforce Enablement function that influences 600+ team members across the overall business group. Key focus areas include:

- Build and run workforce, capacity model and governance across overall Business Group with 600+ team members
- Pipeline rationalization, planning, forecasting to deliver on customer commitments and staff for growth
- Drive to define and run business group Workforce planning aligned to strong KPIs
- Select, implement and run Workforce management tool
- Develop and run programs to build a strong pipeline of internal talent: Early Career, Internships, Prep program, Mentorship, Apprenticeship to run complex customer deployments
- Training programs for services teams & other
- Employee Experience programs across business group
- Contingent Worker model and administration for the business group

**_ Job Family Definition:_**

Establishes and defines high-impact, long term (5+ years) business strategies at the corporate or business level. Partners with executive management to identify existing operational efficiencies and new business opportunities, including market development, investment prioritization, and M&A and other growth strategies. Oversees and manages corporate strategy initiatives and communicates the strategic direction to the corporation. Provides leadership to corporate, business and/or regional management regarding the execution of business strategies. Works with executive teams to develop short to long term (usually 2 years or more) business plans and forecasting models. Prepares global or regional implementation strategies including execution plans, resource allocations and process accountabilities. Tracks financial, sales and market data to evaluate actual performance and makes recommendations to business leaders on performance target achievement. Develops data-driven analyses to optimize resources and ensure that business plans can be translated into financial value.

**_ Management Level Definition:_**

Leads a large or broad function/department within a multifaceted organization. Responsible for operational success, strategic alignment and integration of activities with other major organizational functions. Responsible for one or more recognized professional disciplines. Fully accountable for the success of the designated function or department. Influences strategy and sets policy and direction. Owns a significant number of measurable functional, operational and strategic goals or priorities. Assumes responsibility for the successful implementation of business plans in a defined area of responsibility. Contributes to the overall strategic definition of a function with strong business acumen. Acts as a key advisor to executive management in influencing the strategic direction of the business.

**_ Responsibilities: _**
- Provides strategic advice to regional/Corporate Function departmental executive management regarding overall targeted growth, operation efficiency, and capital strategy initiatives.
- Builds financially sound, executable, data-driven business strategies that improve the company's share holder value.
- Provides strategic advice to clarify, plan and monitor the growth of the company or business unit revenues and market share.
- Drives operational efficiency initiatives that improve the company's profitability
- Applies financial rigor and acumen to all initiatives that lead executive and company's business teams to share holder value based decisions
- Design and development of business models, market strategies or M&A activities for organizational effectiveness.
- Develops growth strategies for area of responsibility.
- Leads strategy and leadership teams in developing key and or difficult acquisitions/growth transactions and strategies.
- Demonstrates thought leadership by coaching and advising VP, SVP and other company executives.
- Provides business rational and risk assessment for making company investments in their area of focus.
- Builds relationship and provides guidance to industry, community, press as appropriate.
- Creates a performance driven culture that ensures the company has the best strategic planning team in the industry.
- Balances short t