Director of Enterprise Thought Leadership

Director of Enterprise Thought Leadership

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

This is an opportunity to join HPE’s world-class Global Communications team. With scores of communicators across the globe, we advocate for HPE’s corporate strategy, business innovation, and thought leadership. We’re looking for a Director of Enterprise Thought Leadership to strategically elevate HPE's presence and influence in the market.

How you’ll make your mark:

The successful candidate for this role will drive thought leadership campaigns that resonate with HPE’s target audiences. They will be responsible for convening and leading a center of excellence focused on setting the strategy for HPE’s enterprise-level thought leadership campaigns, identifying storylines to elevate, selecting content partners, and amplifying corporate-level narrative topics. 

The role, reporting to the VP, Corporate & Financial Communications, requires an enterprise-wide perspective developed from a deep understanding of technology trends and the HPE business. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in B2B communication or marketing, combined with exceptional leadership skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
 

In this role, you will:

As a member of the Global Communications team, you’ll work in a close-knit group of talented colleagues supporting strategic communications and the implementation of 360-degree communications plans. The team you’ll join is high performing and offers many opportunities that add to overall career development. You’ll do well in this role if you are strategic, creative, and collaborative, and enjoy building successful new programs from the ground up.

You’ll be expected to combine a strategic vision with hands-on execution in matching our most important narratives that address corporate-level and portfolio topics with the most influential venues and leadership forums. The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to lead with an enterprise-wide perspective while ensuring productive collaboration with Global Marketing & Communications colleagues across our portfolio foundations in networking, hybrid cloud, and AI.

Responsibilities for this role include:

Strategic Planning and Execution: Develop a clear long-term thought leadership agenda that solidifies HPE's voice in the technology industry and business community at large. Foster innovation, set ambitious goals, and align with HPE’s strategic objectives as you build an enterprise thought leadership program to enhance HPE’s reputation with business and technology leaders. Lead with an enterprise-wide perspective, developed from a deep understanding of the overall business and complementary Global Marketing & Communications programming and campaigns.
 

Strategic Influence: Align and collaborate with teams across Global Marketing & Communications to position HPE as a thought leader and innovator among business influencers. Showcase HPE's expertise and the ways HPE advances the way people live and work

Trend Identification & Audience Mapping: Identify industry trends relevant to HPE and map target audiences. Analyze market insights that will shape and refine the thought leadership strategy.

Partnership Selection & Relationship Building: Connect with and evaluate potential external content and event partners that align with HPE’s strategic objectives to build reputation with key audiences. Arrange and negotiate the parameters and amplification options of our news, editorial, and sponsored partnership engagements.

Speakers Bureau & Event Program Managemen