HPE Aruba Global Demand and NPI Planner

Job description

Job ID 1032596 Date posted 10/31/2018 Primary Location Heredia, Provincia de Heredia, Costa Rica Job Category Business Planning Schedule Full time Shift No shift premium (Costa Rica)

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), we live by three core values that drive our business: Partner. Innovate. Act. These values combine to help us create important work all over the world to advance how people live and work.

Aruba is redefining the “IT EDGE”. Creating new customer experiences by building intelligent spaces and digital workspaces. We are focused on campus, branch, mobility and the IoT to transform business models with the combined power of compute, context, control and secure connectivity.

Defines, manages, and evaluates business plans to ensure they are operationally executable against defined strategic objectives. Leads and partners with cross-functional teams to develop short-term (typically less than two years) business plans and supporting data-driven models. Prepares comprehensive implementation tactics, including execution plans, resource allocation plans, follow-up guidelines, assessment, and process accountabilities. Ensures that business activities are aligned with stated plans among different stakeholders. Sets business metrics, evaluates 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.

Responsibilities:

·  Manages complex data and business analysis to develop business plans and make recommendations.
·  Works independently to construct complex statistical and financial models to forecast business performance.
·  Defines the metrics required to measure business performance, compares actual data to forecasted values, and develops the process for identifying and addressing performance gaps.
·  Manages complex, time- sensitive market research projects and synthesizes data and information to identify relevant trends and next steps.
·  Works with cross-functional teams across the entire span of business planning activities.
·  Contributes to priority projects with complex analysis and assists in developing recommendations.
·  Works closely with business leaders to develop plans based on historical, forecasted data and reports.
·  Develops go-forward business plan recommendations based on potential risks and returns.
·  Identifies cutting-edge analytical tools, models, and methods for making key business decisions.

Education and Experience Required:
Typically 4-6 years of experience in strategy, planning, operations, finance, or related functional area. First level university degree.

Knowledge and Skills:

·  Demonstrated knowledge of research methodology and the ability to manage complex data requests.
·  Excellent analytical thinking, technical analysis, and data manipulation skills.
·  Ability to learn and draw on new analytical techniques to develop creative approaches to business analysis.
·  Extensive knowledge of Excel, Access, statistical analysis, and financial modeling.
·  Strong business acumen and technical knowledge within area of responsibility.
·  Very strong verbal and written communication skills.
·  Strong project management skills.
·  Developed relationship management skills.
·  Ability to lead cross-functional teams.
·  Ability to identify and summarize relevant trends from market and industry data.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO F/M/Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.