Complex Strategic Program Manager

Complex Strategic Program Manager    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: Role Description The Complex Program Manager (CPM) is a key leadership role within HPE’s Private Cloud and Flex Solutions business, responsible for delivering large-scale, multi-site private cloud solutions as a single integrated program. In this role, you will coordinate multiple HPE technologies, including compute, storage, networking, and software, alongside Deployment Services, Professional Services, Managed Services, Local PMOs, third-party partners, and customer teams to achieve successful business outcomes. The CPM engages early in the sales lifecycle as part of the Center of Excellence pursuit team, helping ensure solutions are deliverable as sold. From initial order and factory build (Day 0), through deployment (Day 1), migration activities (Day 2), and transition into Managed Services operations (Day M), you will provide end-to-end program leadership. This highly visible role requires strong governance, executive-level communication, and the ability to drive alignment across diverse stakeholders while delivering some of HPE’s most innovative and complex solutions. Success in this position requires a combination of program management expertise, technical acumen, relationship management, cross-functional leadership, and meticulous attention to detail. What Makes This Role Complex The CPM leads programs that integrate multiple HPE products into a single customer solution, while direct ownership of those products remains with separate business units. Networking, compute, storage, and software offerings each follow independent roadmaps and release cycles. Program delivery responsibilities are distributed across the CPMO, Local PMOs, Engineering, Managed Services, partners, and customer teams. The CPM is accountable for driving alignment, managing dependencies, resolving issues, escalating risks, and leading recovery efforts whenever program outcomes are at risk. Responsibilities Value Chain Alignment • Align Sales, the Center of Excellence, Business Unit Engineering, Supply Chain, Services, Local PMOs, and partner organizations around a single integrated delivery plan, beginning in pre-sales to ensure solutions are deliverable as sold. • Lead structured handoff and transition reviews at each major program phase (pursuit to order, factory to site, deployment to operations), ensuring documented entry and exit criteria are met. End-to-End Schedule Management • Own and maintain the integrated master schedule from order through delivery and execution, ensuring alignment with product release timelines, material availability, dependencies, and critical path activities. • Oversee end-to-end execution across factory build, deployment, migration waves, cutovers, rollback planning, and hypercare activities, coordinating Local PMOs, Deployment Services, Engineering, and customer teams. Operating Model • Lead stakeholder engagement, governance, and go/no-go r