HPE Vice President, Human Resources for Global Sales

Company: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Location: San Jose, CA

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HPE’s strategy is to accelerate our customers’ enterprises from edge to cloud, helping them connect all of their data, edge and cloud environments. We help our customers create a software-defined, hybrid operating model that spans any cloud to multi-cloud, on and off-premises and the edge so they can create and deliver everything-as-a-service dynamically, everywhere.

Key to this strategy is our global sales team driving profitable growth and market share for HPE via a best-in-class sales organization that includes the direct and inside sales force, channels and alliances partnerships.

Partnering with the Chief Sales Officer, the HR leader for Global Sales will help drive the people plan for all sales employees, ensuring they have the skills and capabilities necessary to advise and deliver on our clients’ agendas. This individual will focus on the organizational design, talent management, and workforce planning initiatives across the global sales organization. Also responsible for operational success, strategic alignment and integration of activities with other major organizational functions. Will be a key adviser to executive management in influencing the strategic direction of the business.

Acts as a consultant and partner to the company businesses and functional organizations. Drives the people strategy and organizational design, and the process of transformation, talent management, and workforce planning. Leads change initiatives and implements specific HR strategies to achieve organization goals and objectives. Aligns performance management and reward systems to drive and reinforce desired behaviors. Ensures HR programs and plans are aligned to the business priorities and monitors effectiveness through the tracking of key measures. Balances corporate, function, geographic and business needs in deploying HR programs to the business unit. Collaborates with HR program/policy/process owners to deliver effective HR programs.


Responsibilities:

  • Develops and leads planning, design, implementation, communication and delivery of the company’s HR initiatives across the organization with global scope.
  • Oversees strategic support and counsel on matters relating to employee relations, compensation, staffing, training and development with significant global impact.
  • Manages complex, ongoing business challenges and changes stemming from shifting organization structure, linkages and strategy.
  • Ensures that the company’s HR programs and initiatives are integrated with the HR and business strategies.
  • Partners with and influences clients at the EVP and SVP level.
  • Drives global strategies and initiatives by exercising significant governance oversight in multiple areas (e.g., key policy decisions, requisition approval, resolution of high-impact disputes).
  • Has significant financial responsibility (e.g., budget of $1 million+ USD).
  • Leads a team of Directors, Managers and Senior Individual Contributors for a business function, and/or region by setting overall program initiatives, allocating financial and human capital for programs and projects, and ensuring timely and effective delivery of human resource programs.
  • Leads and directly manages all HR business partner functions, and demonstrates broad impact through significant direct and dotted-line employee reporting relationships.


Location
: San Jose, CA


Education and Experience Required:

  • First level university degree; advanced university degree in business preferred.
  • Typically 15+ years of business partner experience with Fortune 500 companies.


Knowledge and Skills:

  • Ability to operate in a matrixed environment and effectively deal with ambiguity
  • Balances strategic thinking with practical action to drive significant results
  • Leverages strong business acumen and analytic capability to integrate HR and business strategies
  • Effective in coaching/influencing/negotiating and managing conflict
  • Builds credibility and relationships and is a strong collaborator
  • Exceptional communication skills, including presentations, written, and verbal
  • Strong program/project management skills
  • Global mindset with ability to effectively work across diverse cultures
  • Strong financial acumen

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