VP, Strategy and Transformation

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, WD_BLACK™, and SanDisk® Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Job Description

The Vice President Transformation will partner with the corporate leadership team and lead transformation initiatives across the organization. The primary responsibility it to lead the Western Digital transformation program to accelerate innovation, drive efficiencies, modernize the way we operate, and to secure our competitive advantage. Further, the leader will also partner with the Chief Strategy Officer to evaluate strategic growth alternatives, including: mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, license agreements, and strategic investments that support the company's overall business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set up transformation
  • Lead the transformation office and build a matrixed team of workstream leads. Make day-to-day transformation program level decisions, track results, and coordinate governance process
  • Act as a "challenge and support" partner to senior executives and their teams to help achieve targeted results.
  • Lead and mentor the transformation team
• Lead implementation
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute the company wide transformation program
  • Ensure initiatives move into implementation and drive fast, pragmatic execution.
  • Lead the execution of specific initiatives
  • Serve as a support function, allowing line functions to focus on implementation.
• Report and course correct
  • Track initiative progress to create transparency and enable better, faster decision-making and results predictability.
  • Provide consistency in internal discussions and Board updates.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Be a key thought partner for CSO on wide range of business, technology and operations topics

Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including the strategy and corporate development team and the initiative owners of the transformation program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree minimum; MBA/MS preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in finance, strategy or investment banking
• Proven track record of leading transformation initiatives and driving business growth.
• Ability to challenge initiative owners in a constructive way with respect to overall feasibility and impact of initiatives
• Broad set of influencing skills (ability to influence people and strategic direction without direct control and/or authority)
• Self-driven with a high level of motivation and determination
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced “private equity like”  environment
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent leadership and communication abilities, strong financial skills
• Technology industry background

Skills:

• Strategic thinking and planning
• Financial modeling and analysis
• Project management
• Risk management
• Leadership and team development
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national