Sr Manager, Corporate Strategy

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.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest growth organizations in the world. From energizing the most competitive gaming platforms, to enabling systems to make cities safer and cars smarter and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and public cloud, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Binge-watch any shows, use social media or shop online lately? You’ll find Western Digital supporting the storage infrastructure behind many of these platforms. And, that flash memory card that captures and preserves your most precious moments? That’s us, too.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, storage devices and platforms for business and consumers alike. Our data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital®, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. It’s You & Western Digital. Together, we’re the next BIG thing in data.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced competitive and market intelligence professional to join our Market & Competitive Intelligence team within Corporate Strategy. The Sr. Manager will actively partner within Corporate Strategy, as well as other key functional areas in the company to identify market and competitive insights and participate in a wide breadth of high-value strategic projects to help Western Digital realize our vision – Architecting how data enables the world to solve its biggest challenges. The role is fast-paced, dynamic, and comes with senior leadership visibility, who often make meaningful strategic decisions based on this team’s analysis.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Create and deliver timely impactful analysis to senior management and the broader team, conveying product, industry and strategic implications in a clear and concise manner.
• Drive and create competitive and market sizing models to support our planning and decision-making processes. Integrate internal and external perspectives to help drive company-wide alignment on foresight, market views and strategic context.
• Contribute to and participate in competitive intelligence activities across the company
• Research market and competitive trends, including products, roadmaps, partnerships, government policies, strategic customer relationships, utilizing various internal and external resources and information services.
• Drive major strategic projects to support Western Digital’s growth aspirations
• Solicit pro-actively perspectives of internal domain expertise
• Participate in the continual improvement of existing report formats; collaborate with key functional areas of the company to identify process, content, and insight improvements.
• Exhibit strong teamwork within and beyond the Strategy team to drive company-wide success
• Integrate tools and best practices into function; help build scalable capabilities in the company
• Support onboarding of new team members

Qualifications

Education, Certifications, and/or Licenses and Experience: Any combination equivalent to, but not limited to, the following:

• Master’s degree in business, engineering or computer science. Data management training a plus.
• 5 -10 years of experience in high technology (corporate strategy, product management, technology management).
• 3 years exposure in using market and competitive intelligence as an input to decision making.

Specific Knowledge:

• Advanced data analytics and research capabilities
• Some technical understanding of flash memory, controller, function/features of enterprise and hyperscale requirements, systems and eco-systems.
• Ability to quickly synthesize various viewpoints and provide key takeaways and impact analysis.

Computer, Software, Tools, Equipment, and Machinery Skills:

• Proficiency with MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Interpersonal:

• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with others who may have ongoing competing priorities and viewpoints, including company employees in other countries.
• Effectively communicate insightful findings and recommendations, including senior management.
• Present credible image.
• Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.

Other:

• High attention to detail.
• Carries out complex p