The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
You are excited to be on the cutting edge of tech and want to make an impact. If this sounds like you, then the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) is your platform to innovate and grow at VMware. Within CIBG is a highly skilled set of strategists, storytellers, and data ninjas who craft the future direction of CIBG by rationalizing opportunities, analyzing data in the context of external market factors, and driving towards efficient and scalable solutions. The Strategy, Planning, and Operations (SPO) team is looking for more innovators to drive strategy, re-engineer processes, and steer cross-functional teams building outstanding products.
Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?
You are a strong leader, self-starter, and excellent teammate with experience in a fast paced, high achievement-oriented,consulting type environment
You possess strong business acumen, have experience developing strategic frameworks to analyze and solve hairy business problems in enterprise tech companies, articulate complex ideas crisply as simple narratives for senior executive engagement (leveraging various tools such as power point, excel, think cell, etc.)
You will drive the following outcomes in your first 30-90-180 days on the job:
30 days: Provide best practices for portfolio management based on outside-in research, customized to CIBG strategic objectives; support strategic planning needs
90 days:Gain buy-in for a recommended portfolio management approach and conduct and initial review; embed the approach into strategic planning
180 days:Deliver a well-defined and bought-in portfolio management approach with a full review; support multiple strategic topics as needed
The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?
Create and execute portfolio strategy for the $6+ billion cloud infrastructure business unit, enablingeffective resource allocation across BU portfolio
Define framework, guidelines, and process to assess the portfolio trade-offs required to balance the BU portfolio (balancing growth and core); develop trade-off analyses as needed, and facilitate trade-off conversations with senior leaders
Drive and lead the key strategic planning process for the BU,such as long range and annual planning, working cross-functionally with other BUs and functional teams
Be versatile and support a wide range of strategy topics such as M&A diligence and integration, business case development, customer research, etc.
Deploy frameworks, data, and analytical tools to solve ambiguous business problems, influence strategic decision making, and facilitate alignment across multiple stakeholders
What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
You'll be joining SPO's Strategy & Growth group and report to Senior Director of Strategy & Growth. The team fosters a culture of collaboration, high performance, and outcome orientation. The team partners with the GM and his leadership team to solve top of mind key strategic topics to run and grow the $6+ billion cloud infrastructure business.
Where is this role located?
Flexible: The location of this role is flexible within the United States. Work could be done from our Palo Alto, CA office some days during a week and other days from a non-VMware location.
What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?
You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com .
Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
Generous Time Off Programs
40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community
Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities
Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)
Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes
This job may require the candidate to travel and/or work from a facility that requires full vaccination prior to entry.
Category : Business Strategy and Operations
Subcategory: Program Management
Experience: Business Leadership
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2022-11-14
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