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Job Summary

Personal Systems is the leader in PC Sales.  The Allocation Manager is responsible for developing and executing allocation strategies for critical technology commodities including CPUs, DRAM/Memory, and SSDs. The role ensures optimal utilization of constrained supply, alignment of supply with business priorities, mitigation of supply risks, and achievement of revenue and customer fulfilment objectives across regions, markets, and product categories.

This position serves as the primary bridge between Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Procurement, Product Management, Business Management, Fulfilment, and Sales organizations to ensure effective allocation decisions during periods of supply constraints and changing market conditions

Analyze demand vs supply: Aligning with commodity planning, track key feature values on coverage.  Create playbook during low coverage and excess situation to help communication to markets and drive actions.  Work with procurement on creating an anecdotal feedback on long term supply and understand commodity roadmap.  Anticipate E&O and aging risk; create a process of communication on excess risk

Responsibilities
• Develop and manage global allocation plans for CPUs, SSDs, and Memory commodities.

• Establish allocation methodologies based on business priorities, customer commitments, strategic initiatives, profitability, and market requirements.
• Monitor allocation consumption and adjust plans dynamically to maximise business outcomes.
• Define and execute hard and soft allocation policies during constrained supply situations.
• Lead commodity allocation reviews with stakeholders on a weekly and monthly cadence.Develops recommendations from complex data and business analysis and formulates them into business plans.
• Drives the construction of highly innovative statistical and financial models to analyze new aspects of business performance.
• Establishes the metrics required to measure business performance, and recommends the go-forward strategy to address performance gaps.
• Leads highly complex, time-sensitive market research projects and identifies compelling trends and opportunities for business leaders.
• Staffs and manages cross-functional teams across the entire span of business planning activities.
• Drives all aspects of priority projects and makes final team decisions; develops business plans and proactively identifies new opportunities as partners with client business leaders.
• Develops and drives comprehensive business plan recommendations, based on analysis, emerging trends, and experience.
• Identifies or develops cutting-edge analytical tools, models, and methods for making key business decisions.
• Counsels business leaders, recommends approaches for executing high-level strategies and develops creative solutions.
• Develops and executes forward-thinking strategies for building and nurturing long-term business relationships.
  
  
  
  Education & Experience Recommended
  • Four-year or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence.
  • Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in strategy, planning, operations, market research, or a related field.
  
  Preferred Certifications
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
  
  Knowledge & Skills
  • Analytics
  • Business Intelligence
  • Business Strategies
  • Competitive Intelligence
  • Customer Insights
  • Dashboard
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Visualization
  • Economics
  • Market Intelligence
  • Market Research
  • Marketing
  • New Product Development
  • Power BI
  • Python (Programming Language)
  • R (Programming Language)
  • SQL (Programming Language)
  • Statistics
  • Tableau (Business Intelligence Software)
  • Thought Leadership
  
  Cross-Org Skills
  • Effective Communication
  • Results Orientation
  • Learning Agility
  • Digital Fluency
  • Customer Centricity
  
  Impact & Scope
  • Impacts large functions and leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects.
  
  Complexity
  • Provides highly innovative solutions to complex problems within established policy.
  
  Disclaimer
  • This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

The pay range for this role is $130,700 to $205,200 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

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

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• 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)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

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