Business Planning Operations Analyst

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Business Planning Operations Analyst This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: Defines, manages, and evaluates business plans to ensure they are operationally executable against defined strategic objectives. Leads and partners with cross-functional teams to develop short-term (typically less than two years) business plans and supporting data-driven models. Prepares comprehensive implementation tactics, including execution plans, resource allocation plans, follow-up guidelines, assessment, and process accountabilities. Ensures that business activities are aligned with stated plans among different stakeholders. Sets business metrics, evaluates actual performance, and makes recommendations to business leaders on performance target achievement. Develops data-driven analyses to optimize resources and ensure that business plans can be translated into financial value.  Responsible for managing the end-to-end procurement process for outsourced services, from gathering business requirements and coordinating supplier selection to supporting contracting and monitoring service delivery. Analyzes procurement and service performance data to identify opportunities and propose improvement projects that reduce costs, shorten cycle times, and improve operational efficiency. Collaborates with internal stakeholders and suppliers to implement and track these improvements. Responsibilities: • Manages complex data and business analyses to develop business plans and make recommendations. • Works independently to construct complex statistical and financial models to forecast business performance. • Defines the metrics required to measure business performance, compares actual data to forecasted values, and develops the process for identifying and addressing performance gaps. • Manages complex, time- sensitive market research projects and synthesizes data and information to identify relevant trends and next steps. • Works with cross-functional teams across the entire span of business planning activities. • Contributes to priority projects with complex analyses and assists in developing recommendations. • Works closely with business leaders to develop business plans based on historical and forecasted data and reports. • Develops go-forward business plan recommendations based on potential risks and returns. • Identifies cutting-edge analytical tools, models, and methods for making key business decisions. Education and Experience Required: • First-level university degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Information Systems, or a related field. • Typically 4–6 years of experience in data modeling, strategy, planning, operations, finance, or a related functional area. • Experience identifying and implementing process improvements to optimize costs, reduce cycle times, and improve operational efficiency. • Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and data analysis.

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