Sustainable Technology Program Lead

Sustainable Technology Program Lead

  

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

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:

   

Overview

As a global technology company, HPE is committed to minimizing the environmental impacts of our industry while harnessing the transformative, positive outcomes that technology enables. The Sustainable Technology Program Lead is a critical member of the Living Progress team, responsible for helping shape HPE’s sustainable technology strategy and leading execution of the strategy by engaging across the company to drive toward our goals and vision. HPE is consistently recognized as a sustainability leader and has an ambitious target to transform into a net-zero company by 2040. As we further embed sustainability across our business, we are focused on innovating towards more sustainable products and solutions aligned to customer and industry needs.

The Sustainable Technology Program Lead will administer and grow HPE’s Sustainable Technology Program, our cross-company effort to institutionalize sustainable product design. They will be responsible for tracking execution towards our sustainable technology strategy, engaging with HPE’s technical community to expand knowledge of sustainable technology and build momentum for sustainability innovation, as well as assessing the impact of the program through newly developed metrics. They will also contribute to our evolving sustainable tech strategy by monitoring industry and customer trends, tracking HPE and competitor product development, and providing expertise in technology sustainability. The role will reside within the Product Sustainability and Innovation team, focused on building a more sustainable portfolio of solutions for our customers, and will partner closely with the product and offering business units and HPE’s technical teams across the company. This position requires extensive coordination at all levels of the company, robust organizational and business acumen, excellent communication skills, technical knowledge, as well as the ability to synthesize complex business problems to devise and execute on plans that address big challenges and opportunities in the environmental sustainability space. Strong sustainability subject matter expertise is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Administer and grow HPE’s Sustainable Technology Program through creativity and program management expertise.
• Track execution towards our sustainable tech strategy by organizing: business units’ updates on their sustainability priorities, regular cross-company meetings of sustainable technology leaders, periodic surveys of the sustainable technology portfolio and roadmap.
• Manage sustainable technology resources including technical guides, trainings, and internal website.
• Increase engagement of HPE’s technical community with sustainable technology through: periodic events, timely and coordinated communications, training campaigns, involvement with other HPE technical and innovation programs.
• Develop and track metrics to assess the impact of the Sustainable Technology Program.
• Monitor industry and customer trends; combine market information with technology sustainability expertise to make strategy and portfolio recommendations.

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Consensus-building and conflict-resolution skills to drive buy-in from executives and individual contributors to execute programs.
• Ability to manage cross-functional teams and develop an understanding of the HPE business and overall business strategy.
• Strategy and execution, ability to digest multiple teams’ strategies across the organization and develop both company-wide strategies as well as the individual success measures necessary to help track execution against these strategies.
• Project and program management skills – excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Systems thinking and ability to consider how to drive diverse projects concurrently and complimentarily, including projects w