Head of Marketing Strategy, Planning and Operations

Job Description

Head of Marketing Strategy, Planning and Operations | Hewlett Packard Enterprise

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, located in India. Hewlett Packard Enterprise builds technology solutions that power global businesses. This leadership position is critical for unifying global, regional, and product marketing efforts into a cohesive strategy, ensuring all marketing activities align with business objectives and are ready for execution. The role drives the planning cycles, budget allocation, and cross-functional coordination necessary for successful market impact.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full time
• Location: In-person, India

• Mission: Consolidate global, regional, and category priorities into a single market marketing plan aligned with business goals.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Market Planning & Alignment: Consolidate global, regional, and category priorities into a unified market marketing plan, coordinating all annual, half-year, and quarterly planning cycles.
• Budget & Investment Planning: Support budget allocation, phasing, and tracking across initiatives, building business cases for incremental investments and managing trade-off decisions.
• Go-To-Market Program Development: Support Category teams in 4P planning at the market level, translating priorities into actionable, consistent, and sequenced marketing programs.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as the planning interface between various marketing, sales, and insights teams, preparing leadership inputs and ensuring market and customer voice in planning.
• Execution & Performance Tracking: Ensure marketing plans are execution-ready with clear priorities and KPIs, tracking progress against plan, and supporting corrective actions.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Executive-level experience in marketing, marketing program management, or category management.
• Experience: 15+ years of total experience, with a proven ability to manage complex planning cycles and multiple stakeholders.
• Skills: Financial acumen for budgeting, forecasting, and investment trade-offs, a structured and analytical mindset, and strong communication skills.
• Bonus: Experience working in a large multinational tech organization.