Business Strategy Principal – HP Solutions Strategy

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Business Strategy Principal – HP Solutions Strategy Description - The Opportunity Join HP’s high-impact, high-visibility HP Solutions Strategy team and help shape the future of HP Solutions across hardware, software, services, and emerging growth areas. This team partners closely with senior HPS leaders to define long-term direction, medium-term strategic priorities, and near-term business choices that influence portfolio strategy, planning, investment priorities, and growth opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly analytical, results-oriented strategy leader who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys solving complex business problems, and wants to make a visible impact at scale. In this role, you will help translate market, customer, technology, and financial insights into clear strategic choices—especially across Advanced Compute Solutions, Edge AI, and integrated business planning. You will work across executive leaders, GBU teams, finance, category, and cross-functional partners to develop insight-driven recommendations grounded in rigorous analysis and compelling strategic narratives. The role combines strategic problem solving with planning rigor, business case development, and executive support on high-priority deliverables including board and leadership reviews. If you are energized by strategic problem solving, cross-functional collaboration, and building what is next, we would love to hear from you. Responsibilities Support the Advanced Compute Solutions (ACS) strategy and integrated planning process annually, partnering with ACS GBU teams, Finance, and category teams to shape long-range financial planning inputs, strategic assumptions, investment choices, and growth ambition. Develop strategic analyses and insights related to Advanced Compute Solutions, including market trends, customer needs, competitive dynamics, and growth opportunities across the HPS portfolio. Support Edge AI strategy, roadmap, and business planning by building actionable insights such as market sizing, competitive analysis, strategic trade-off assessments, and long-term opportunity framing. Partner with Finance to support investment sizing and capital allocation submissions, ensuring recommendations are grounded in business impact, financial rigor, and alignment to HPS priorities. Drive alignment of long-term strategy across divisions including Retail, Workforce Experience Platform, and Services to ensure a cohesive point of view on Edge AI and related growth bets. Support ad hoc HPS strategy deliverables, including board, FIT, ELT, and other executive-level materials, bringing a clear point of view from the ACS and workstations perspective. Partner with Corporate Strategy and other cross-functional stakeholders on broader projects that inform enterprise strategy, planning, and leadership decision-making. Structure analytical approaches, project plans, and executive-ready storylines to solve complex and ambiguous business problems with speed and rigor. Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans and follow-through, helping connect strategy, planning, and execution across the businesses supported. Contribute to team development by identifying growth opportunities, assigning stretch work that builds strategic capability, and connecting team members with mentors and coaches to support their career goals. Knowledge and Skills Exceptional analytical thinking, structured problem solving, and hypothesis-driven decision-making skills. Ability to break down ambiguous issues into clear frameworks, actionable insights, and practical recommendations. Strong business acumen with experience assessing markets, competitive dynamics, customer needs, and business model implications in technology, solutions, or services environments. Experience building financial models, long-range plans, business cases, forecasts, and scenario analyses to support strategic decision-making and investment prioritization. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create concise, compelling, executive-ready presentations and narratives for board and senior leadership audiences. Strong project management and prioritization skills, with the ability to independently manage multiple high-visibility workstreams. Proven ability to influence and collaborate across senior stakeholders, GBU teams, Finance, category teams, and global cross-functional partners. Curiosity, learning agility, and comfort working in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities. Ability to connect technology, customer, market, and financial insights to strategic choices across hardware, software, services, and Edge AI growth areas. High degree of ownership, sound judgment, and commitment to delivering high-quality work while helping elevate team capability. Education and Experience Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or another related discipline, or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence. Typically 8–10+ years of experience in corporate strategy, strategic planning, business strategy, management consulting, product strategy, or a related field. Experience in top-tier consulting, corporate strategy, or a similarly rigorous strategy environment is highly desirable. Experience developing strategic recommendations, long-range plans, business cases, and executive communications for senior leaders. Experience working in technology, hardware, software, services, AI, or adjacent industries is strongly preferred. MBA or other advanced degree is a plus. The pay range for this role is $170,000 to $260,000 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Benefits: Health insurance Dental insurance Vision insurance Long term/short term disability insurance Employee assistance program Flexible spending account Life insurance Generous time off policies, including: 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure 11 paid holidays Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave ( US benefits overview ) The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law. 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