Corporate Strategy Manager

Corporate Strategy Manager

Description -

The opportunity

We are seeking an experienced, results-oriented strategy practitioner to join HP’s Corporate Strategy team, reporting to the Senior Director of Corporate Strategy as part of the HP Global Strategy & Transformation function. This team of strategy professionals is widely respected across HP and regarded as a seeding ground for HP’s future leaders. We work as a 'meritocracy' that appeals to and rewards high achievers. Your success paves the way for a rewarding career within Strategy or entry into one of HP’s businesses.

This role is responsible for driving the company's strategic direction, ensuring that it remains competitive and adaptable in a rapidly changing business landscape. In this role you will define our gameplan that will impact our product/portfolio roadmap, GTM motions, competitive responses, M&A approach, etc. You will inform the strategic choices by conducting in-depth analyses, synthesizing the analytical results, testing hypotheses, and forming the recommendations. The role will need collaboration with cross-functional leaders to refine and align strategy with organizational goals.

This role is open to the following locations: Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities
Strategy & Narrative Development

• Lead the creation of strategic frameworks, hypothesis trees, and storylines that simplify complex technology spaces into compelling, executive-ready narratives
• Leverages strategic and management consulting frameworks to implement a comprehensive portfolio approach for evaluating and managing the organization's diverse business units, platforms, and products.
• Develop clean, visually strong, and insight-driven slides that distill data, frameworks, and technical content into high-clarity recommendations
• Craft strategic narratives that guide ELT decision-making—including vision statements, investment rationales, and long-term strategic choices

Business Planning & Investment Thesis Development

• Build data-driven long-term business plans that articulate opportunity size, economics, monetization models, costs, and risks
• Work cross-functionally to manage Long-Term Planning process to ensure end to end alignment with strategic focus of the assigned BU
• Develop robust business models and forecasts on where to play and how to win over 1-to-5-year horizons with recommendations on de-risked operational plans that drive alignment and accountability.
• Partner with GBU to evaluate and prioritize strategic investments within the long‑term planning process, pressure‑test key assumptions, and deliver insights benchmarked against industry standards.

Driving Thought Leadership

• Consults with business executives on a wide range of issues related to the strategy formulation process, including risk management and new growth opportunities.
• Provides thought leadership and contributes to expanding the knowledge base within area of expertise which includes developing new methods, techniques and criteria for developing strategy analysis and recommendations.

Cross-Functional Influence

• Collaborate with GBU leaders and Product teams to align opportunity framing with HP’s technology roadmap and capability strengths
• Clarify what matters most, distilling customer needs into technology implications and strategic choices
• Drive alignment across senior stakeholders and influence decision-making through structured, insight-led storytelling

Key Skills & Capabilities

Strategic & Analytical Excellence

• Structured problem solver with exceptional ability to break down ambiguous problems into crisp frameworks
• Ability to build theses, evaluate opportunities, and drive recommendations with data and narrative clarity
• Fluency in market analysis: TAM, segmentation, competitive dynamics, value chain analysis
• Strong business model analysis (pricing, unit economics, monetization pathways, growth levers)

Executive Storytelling & Visualization

• Outstanding ability to build simple, clean, logical storylines that influence senior audiences
• Strong slide-making and visualization skills: pyramid communication, frameworks, heat maps
• Comfort distilling complex content into concise, compelling messages
• Comfort working across senior stakeholders, reviews, and tight timelines

Education & Experience 

• 7-10 years in strategy, corporate development, management consulting, or product strategy roles (hands-on business strategy experience required)
• Experience building business plans, TAM analyses, investment theses, and executive narratives in