Corporate Strategy Expert

Corporate Strategy Expert **Description -** **The opportunity** We are seeking an experienced, results-oriented strategy practitioner to join HP’s Corporate Strategy team, reporting to the Senior Manager of Corporate Strategy as part of the HP Global Strategy & Transformation function. This team of strategy professionals is widely respected across HP and regarded as a seeding ground for HP’s future leaders. We work as a 'meritocracy' that appeals to and rewards high achievers. Your success paves the way for a rewarding career within Strategy or entry into one of HP’s businesses. This role is responsible for driving the company's strategic direction, ensuring that it remains competitive and adaptable in a rapidly changing business landscape. In this role you will define our gameplan that will impact our product/portfolio roadmap, GTM motions, competitive responses, M&A approach, etc. You will inform the strategic choices by conducting in-depth analyses, synthesizing the analytical results, testing hypotheses, and forming the recommendations. The role will need collaboration with cross-functional leaders to refine and align strategy with organizational goals. **This role is open to the following locations: Palo Alto, CA** **Responsibilities** **Strategy & Narrative Development** - Support the creation of strategic frameworks, hypothesis trees, and storylines that simplify complex technology spaces into compelling, executive-ready narratives - Leverage strategic and management consulting frameworks to implement a comprehensive portfolio approach for evaluating and managing the organization's diverse business units, platforms, and products. - Develop clean, visually strong, and insight-driven slides that distill data, frameworks, and technical content into high-clarity recommendations - Craft strategic narratives that guide ELT decision-making—including vision statements, investment rationales, and long-term strategic choices **Business Planning & Investment Thesis Development** - Build data-driven long-term business plans that articulate opportunity size, economics, monetization models, costs, and risks - Work cross-functionally to manage Long-Term Planning process to ensure end to end alignment with strategic focus of the assigned BU - Develop robust business models and forecasts on where to play and how to win over 1-to-5-year horizons with recommendations on de-risked operational plans that drive alignment and accountability. - Partner with GBU to evaluate and prioritize strategic investments within the long‑term planning process, pressure‑test key assumptions, and deliver insights benchmarked against industry standards. **Driving Thought Leadership** - Consults with business executives on a wide range of issues related to the strategy formulation process, including risk management and new growth opportunities. - Provides thought leadership and contributes to expanding the knowledge base within area of expertise which includes developing new methods, techniques and criteria for developing strategy analysis and recommendations. **Cross-Functional Influence** - Collaborate with GBU leaders and Product teams to align opportunity framing with HP’s technology roadmap and capability strengths - Clarify what matters most, distilling customer needs into technology implications and strategic choices - Drive alignment across senior stakeholders and influence decision-making through structured, insight-led storytelling **Key Skills & Capabilities** **Strategic & Analytical Excellence** - Structured problem solver with exceptional ability to break down ambiguous problems into crisp frameworks - Ability to build theses, evaluate opportunities, and drive recommendations with data and narrative clarity - Fluency in market analysis: TAM, segmentation, competitive dynamics, value chain analysis - Strong business model analysis (pricing, unit economics, monetization pathways, growth levers) **Executive Storytelling & Visualization** - Outstand…