# Project Manager **Company**: HP Inc. **Location**: Palo Alto, California **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $95,000 to $110,000 USD annually **Category**: Operations **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://hp.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ExternalCareerSite/job/Palo-Alto-California-United-States-of-America/Project-Manager_3170853-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/project-manager-c39790ba-091/ ## Description The Commercial Strategy & Transformation team is looking for a highly organized, resourceful, and collaborative Program Manager to support a portfolio of strategic, transformation, and operational initiatives. In this role, you will help translate priorities into action by managing small to medium scale projects and defined workstreams, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, developing project plans and leadership materials, tracking deliverables, and helping drive projects through completion. **Key Responsibilities** **Program & Project Management** - Manage small to medium scale projects and defined workstreams from planning through execution. - Translate business priorities into clear project plans, milestones, deliverables, owners, and next steps. - Track progress against milestones, schedules, budgets, and other key performance indicators. - Identify project risks, dependencies, and roadblocks and work with stakeholders to address them. - Exercise independent judgment within established practices and procedures to determine appropriate actions. - Maintain accurate project documentation and ensure decisions, actions, and commitments are captured and followed through. - Support project financial management, including budget tracking, forecasting, and monitoring project-related expenses when applicable. **Cross Functional Coordination** - Partner with teams across the organization to gather information, coordinate deliverables, and maintain alignment. - Build and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders across different functions and levels. - Facilitate project meetings and working sessions with clear objectives, outcomes, owners, and next steps. - Coordinate internal and external resources supporting project delivery. - Follow up with stakeholders to maintain momentum and ensure commitments are completed. - Escalate risks, issues, or decisions appropriately when additional leadership direction is required. **Analysis & Content Development** - Gather, organize, and analyze information from multiple sources to support project execution and decision making. - Develop conclusions and recommendations based on research, data analysis, and stakeholder input. - Create presentations, executive summaries, project updates, reports, briefing materials, and other communications. - Translate complex or incomplete information into clear, concise, and actionable content. - Support the development of recommendations for business and transformation initiatives. - Document and share knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned across the team. **Leadership & Team Support** - Prepare materials for leadership discussions, project reviews, and decision points. - Provide visibility into project status, key milestones, risks, dependencies, and decisions needed. - Coordinate follow-through on actions and priorities that emerge from leadership discussions. - Support planning and execution of workshops, strategy sessions, team activities, and other priority initiatives. - Contribute analysis and recommendations while working with more senior team members on broader strategic direction. - Step into new projects and workstreams as priorities evolve. **Operational Excellence** - Identify opportunities to improve processes, project execution, and team ways of working. - Develop and maintain repeatable templates, tools, trackers, and project documentation. - Support change management activities associated with new initiatives or processes. - Apply established project management methods while adapting appropriately to the needs of individual projects. - Share knowledge and lessons learned to improve future project execution. **Education & Experience** - Four-year or graduate degree in Business Administration or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience or demonstrated competence. - Typically 2 to 4 years of relevant work experience, preferably in program management, project management, strategy, business operations, transformation, or a related field. - Experience working on cross-functional projects in a complex or matrixed organization is preferred. - Experience supporting global projects or teams is a plus. **Knowledge & Skills** - Project and program management - Project planning and implementation - Project schedules and milestone management - Risk and issue management - Data analysis - Key performance indicators and reporting - Process improvement - Change management - Project documentation - Financial tracking and forecasting - Stakeholder management - Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Project or similar project management tools - Agile methodologies - Business analysis - Executive and leadership communications **Core Capabilities** - Effective Communication - Results Orientation - Learning Agility - Digital Fluency - Customer Centricity **What Success Looks Like** A successful Program Manager on the Commercial Strategy & Transformation team will be a trusted execution partner who can take responsibility for defined projects and workstreams and help move them forward with increasing independence. **Impact & Scope** This role primarily impacts the immediate team and the cross-functional stakeholders supporting assigned projects. The Program Manager serves as an informed team member who provides analysis, recommendations, and project direction within their area of responsibility. **Preferred Profile** - Highly organized and dependable. - Naturally proactive and comfortable following through with stakeholders. - Able to work independently without requiring constant direction. - Strong at turning conversations into clear actions and deliverables. - Comfortable building PowerPoint presentations and leadership-ready materials. - Able to balance several projects and deadlines at once. - Curious and willing to jump into unfamiliar business topics. - Comfortable working behind the scenes to make complex initiatives run smoothly. - Equally comfortable coordinating the details and understanding the broader business objective. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - project management - program management - project planning - risk management - data analysis - stakeholder management - Microsoft PowerPoint - Microsoft 365 - Agile methodologies - business analysis ### Nice to have - Microsoft Project - financial tracking - forecasting - change management - process improvement --- Source: [Apply at hp.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://hp.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ExternalCareerSite/job/Palo-Alto-California-United-States-of-America/Project-Manager_3170853-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)