Director, Product Management, Aruba H3C/Comware at Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Boston, Massachusetts

Job Description:

This vital leadership role will design, plan, develop and manage a product or portfolio of products throughout the solution portfolio lifecycle:  from new product definition or enhancements to existing products; planning, design, forecasting, and production; to end of life.

Responsibilities:

• Leads, drives and provides approach for designing the end to end strategy for a suite of product portfolios that can be leveraged across the business unit.

• Provides guiding principles for and defines value proposition, customer segmentation, and business case to bring innovative and disruptive business unit products to the market.  (i.e. Product configuration mix, Revenue/margins, financials, market share).

• Sets business unit agenda for and drives synthesizing market requirements (MRD) into marketing/customer details through having intimate customer knowledge and business, financial and industry market acumen.

• Drives integration of the product portfolios lifecycles to business unit goals across all phases of the product portfolio and business unit lifecycle (e.g. planning, development, launch, management, exit).

• Sets teams standards and operational metrics across all portfolios to align with the business unit's strategic goals (ie: revenue unit/margins, market share, quality performance, channel route to market, quarterly financials and on time to delivery).

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering or related field of study. MBA or advanced degree in computer science or engineering preferred.

• 15+ years of work experience in related field.

• Proven ability to define and execute a business strategy that drives operational excellence & profit.

• Strong technology foundation and business acumen and understand the technology strategy in the market

• Demonstrated experience leading people managers.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Recognized industry leader for team and people management skills, ability to mentor and lead teams to achieve results for complex, ambiguous projects.

• Recognized industry leader for skills in cost efficient solution building, financial performance metric creation and analysis.

• Recognized industry leader for knowledge of root cause analysis and problem detection.

• Technical understanding and knowledge of the relevant industry and ability to provide product specific technical training to the team.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO F/M/Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities. HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to the use of arrest and conviction records, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws and will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.