Senior Manager â Planning and Strategy
Senior Manager â Planning and Strategy
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Job Description
Job Summary: This strategic leader will drive organizational growth by developing and executing longterm strategic plans conducting indepth market analysis and providing actionable insights to senior leadership. They will foster crossfunctional collaboration ensuring alignment and effective execution of business priorities and leverage datadriven decisionmaking to optimize strategy and drive continuous improvement.
Reports To: Director Strategy and Planning
Strong Exposure To: Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Strategic Partnership & CrossFunctional Collaboration
- Serve as a thought partner to teams across product engineering data science marketing and sales providing strategic operational planning and insights.
- Collaborate with Finance & Operations (F&S) to provide critical context scenario modeling inputs and prioritization guidance for leadership investment decisions.
- Act as a key liaison across teams fostering alignment and ensuring effective execution of longterm business priorities.
- Operational Excellence & DataDriven Strategy:
- Collect analyze and synthesize data to inform strategic decisions and identify opportunities for growth and efficiency.
- Design implement and refine processes and workflows to enhance team and organizational productivity.
- Partner with functional groups to assess operational challenges and develop solutions aligned with company goals.
- Define implement monitor and report on key performance metrics to assess business health.
- Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) and drive the strategy design AI/automation and operationalization of costeffective planning workflows.
- Manage dependencies risks and workflow integration.
- Design and implement a standardized system for managing changes to planning workflows.
Qualifications :
Required:
- Bachelors degree in engineering business or related field
- Minimum of 7 years of experience with strong exposure to strategic planning experience in top tier management consulting/investment bank/private equity followed by technology company
- Willingness to work in a fastpaced environment
- Strong judgment and decisiveness when dealing with timely deadlinedriven contentrelated issues and concerns
- Insatiable curiosity to learn new domains keep up with industry innovation and constantly ask why
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive business process improvements
- Experience in driving change management across complex organizational structures
Preferred:
- MBA/MS from top tier institution preferred
Skills:
- Strong analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking skills
- Excellent leadership and communication abilities strong financial skills
- Excellent written (memos and presentations) and verbal communication skills; timely communication
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 persons gender identity gender expression and genderrelated appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the persons assigned sex at birth) age national origin sexual orientation medical condition marital status (including domestic partnership status) physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information protected medical and family care leave Civil Air Patrol status military and veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our nondiscrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.
Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees our company our customers and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging respect and contribution.
Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.
Based on our experience we anticipate that the application deadline will be 7/4/25 although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.
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Compensation & Benefits Details
- An employees pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills ability knowledge of the job; (3) performance contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
- The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California Colorado New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
- You will be eligible to participate in Western Digitals ShortTerm Incentive (STI) Plan which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance you may be eligible to participate in our annual LongTerm Incentive (LTI) program which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires subject to Western Digitals Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life accident and disability insurance; taxadvantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D legal plan pet insurance critical illness accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program employee stock purchase plan and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
- Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
