Personal Systems & Retail Industry Solutions Category Manager

Description -

Personal Systems & Retail Industry Solutions Category Manager

Our vision is to create technology that makes life better for everyone, everywhere — every person, every organization, and every community around the globe. This motivates us — inspires us — to do what we do. To make what we make. To invent, and to reinvent. To engineer experiences that amaze. We won’t stop pushing ahead, because you won’t stop pushing ahead. You’re reinventing how you work. How you play. How you live. With our technology, you’ll reinvent your world. This is our calling. This is a new HP. Keep reinventing.

In Customer Support, we are accountable to improve the customer experience to be “Enables of growth”. We are adopting LAER (Land, Adopt, Expand, Renew) model from TSIA to drive the business forward in creating stronger relationships with customers. Managing to budget, creating operational efficiencies and creating lasting fun and motivational environment that attracts and retains talent.

Ideal candidate performs as Customer Support PS – RiS Category Manager for the North American market.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Key Responsibilities                                                                                            

• Drive performance and corrective action plans to meet objectives and goals on operational performance, cost and customer satisfaction.
• Monitor metrics by Service level by each Area and drive across the regions
• Daily operational strategic planning, analysis, collaboration and problem solving
• Manage relationship with key sponsors and partners
• Act as an agent of change by demonstrating enthusiasm and commitment to change processes; manage and execute new initiatives regularly in a positive, constructive manner to ensure acceptance of new ways of doing business. Drive Innovation and instil strategic & creative thinking among the team
• Cluster management of low hanging fruit to drive improvement(s)
• Performs business analysis, identifies root cause, and develops recommendations/ solutions to drive business improvements to Area Managers and District Leads.
• Utilizes technical and business skills to lead complex cross- functional activities that drive continuous growth of the services business.
• Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert
• Frequently contributes to the development of new ideas and methods.
• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors.
• Leads and/or provides expertise to functional project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives.
• Acts as an expert providing direction and guidance to process improvements and establishing policies.

Key Competencies / Skills

Subject Matter Expert – work cross-functional with the District Managers in all Areas to drive inner loop and outer loop improvements. Demonstrates an understanding of underlying organizational issues & awareness.

Problem Solving- Ability to work through details of difficult or complex issues of a problem to reach a solution, involving systematic and critical thinking skills.

Strategic thinking & Leadership – Contributes to Area vision and strategy. Can be seen as a role model for Field Delivery. Anticipates and plans for change. Translate strategy into goals, ensuring it is aligned with leadership, employees and stake holders and clearly communicated outwards.

Strategic Planning - Build a roadmap of change, plans to meet budgets and goals, prioritize projects and resources for ensuring customer, employee, sub-contractor success.

Cost management –Determining ways to optimize and eliminate waste without sacrificing customer satisfaction.

Management of Change & Drive results – Be adept at driving the human side of changes from awareness to desire, knowledge, ability and reinforcement of behaviour changes. Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.

Communication – Proactively ensure there is continual, effective two-way communication between leadership, employees, sub-contractors. Actively listen and respond to inputs from all sides. Adapts communication to audience and fosters effective communication with others, developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Influence and Accountability – Collaborative and cross functional leadership. Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments. Take a proactive stance on influencing key stakeholders and dependencies. Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm.

Analytical – Ability to look at data, visualize and analyze information in detail, see a problem or situation from different points of view, solve complex problems by making decision in the most effective way.

Growth Mindset, Innovation / Creativity: Changing or bringing new value propositions, services and processes; introducing new ideas, workflows, methodologies, to solve problems.

Education and Qualifications                                                              

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, 4-6 years related experience and project or team management experience.           
• Innovation and Creativity
• Keen sense of accountability, cross functional skills, interpersonal skills, growth mindset and ability to work with departmental and cross-departmental teams
• Familiarity with Customer Support Operations, ideally with hands-on experience of leading complex change in a services organization
• Excel & PowerPoint

Skill & Competencies Needed:

• Excel (pivot tables)
• PowerPoint
• Communication with inner & outer loop

Activities:

• Data Analytics
• Root Cause Analysis (cadence, tracking, reporting)
• Action Plan execution
• Develop CE/DL training (transaction to contractual trusted advisor)
• Area Presentations
  • All employee meetings/calls
  • Area Ops Reviews
• Personal Systems & Retail Industry Solutions Category presentation review

Category Operations:

• North America level communications
  • Advertising our wins/challenges/opportunities
• District Reviews, root cause, insights, opportunities
• Real Time & Accurate Reporting
• Assist all districts success measure for WO management & Metrics
• Change Management

Success Measures:

• RCA Cadence/Tracking/Reporting
• Data analytics/RCA Analyses
• Region Reviews
• Category Reviews with our sponsors
• Develop necessary Excel and PowerPoint skills
• “Control Tower” – Assist all districts success measures for WO Management and Metrics
• Change Management
• Keep timelines – keep org on task
• CE training plans
• Review performance data to measure productivity or goal achievement or to identify areas needing cost reduction or program improvement.
• Analyse data to inform operational decisions or activities.
• Recommend organizational process or policy changes.
• Implement organizational process or policy changes.
   

  The base pay range for this role is $95,250 - $135,700 annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to US candidates only).  Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

  Benefits:

  HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

  o            Health insurance

  o            Dental insurance

  o            Vision insurance

  o            Long term/short term disability insurance

  o            Employee assistance program

  o            Flexible spending account

  o            Life insurance

  o            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)

Job -

Services

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel -

25%

Relocation -

No

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) - 

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