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Job Summary

The Chief of Staff and Strategic Planning Lead serves as the strategic partner and operational right hand to the Senior Vice President and Division President of Office Print.  This role drives strategic alignment, organizational effectiveness, executive decision support, and disciplined execution across the division.

Working closely with the Division President, leadership team, and cross-functional partners, the Chief of Staff translates business priorities into clear operating plans, strengthens leadership-team effectiveness, and ensures momentum against the organization’s most important commitments. The role combines strategy, business operations, executive communications, organizational leadership, and complex program execution.

This is a highly visible individual-contributor position requiring exceptional judgment, executive presence, diplomacy, adaptability, and the ability to influence across a large, global, matrixed organization.

Key Responsibilities

Business Priorities Execution

·   Partner with the Division President and leadership team to translate business strategy into clear priorities, operating plans, and measurable outcomes.

·   Establish and manage governance for the division’s strategic priorities, including milestones, key performance indicators, risks, and leadership decisions.

·   Lead the development of executive-level business narratives, strategic reviews, long-term planning materials, quarterly business reviews, and other senior-leadership presentations.

·   Synthesize complex business information into clear insights, recommendations, and decision frameworks.

·   Identify emerging business risks, organizational dependencies, and opportunities requiring leadership attention.

·   Lead or support high-priority strategic initiatives that span organizations, functions, or geographies.

·   Ensure leadership decisions and commitments are translated into actions, owners, and timely follow-through.

Leadership-Team Effectiveness

·   Design and manage the operating cadence for the Division President and leadership team.

·   Plan and facilitate leadership staff meetings, strategic reviews, operating reviews, offsites, and other executive forums.

·   Partner with the Division President to establish agendas, frame decisions, surface trade-offs, and maintain focus on the organization’s highest priorities.

·   Strengthen alignment, accountability, and collaboration across the leadership team.

·   Maintain effective mechanisms for documenting decisions, tracking commitments, and ensuring closure of leadership-team actions.

·   Help the leadership team navigate complex or ambiguous issues with sound judgment, discretion, and diplomacy.

Executive Communications

·   Shape clear, compelling, and consistent executive communications aligned with the division’s strategy and priorities.

·   Develop leadership presentations, organizational messages, talking points, announcements, employee communications, and other executive content.

·   Translate complex business topics into concise narratives tailored to executive, employee, and cross-functional audiences.

·   Partner with internal and external communications teams to ensure message consistency and strategic alignment.

·   Support communication channels and employee forums that improve organizational clarity, connection, and understanding.

Business Operations and Governance

·   Architect and continuously improve operating mechanisms that enable the division’s strategy to translate into execution.

·   Establish structured approaches for prioritization, governance, performance management, and executive reporting.

·   Coordinate the division’s leadership and business cadence, ensuring that key planning, review, and decision forums are connected.

·   Drive effective program management for strategic initiatives through consistent frameworks, milestones, and performance indicators.

·   Anticipate issues, remove barriers, and facilitate timely resolution of cross-functional dependencies.

·   Bring greater clarity and simplicity to complex organizational processes and business challenges.

Organizational Effectiveness, Culture, and Engagement

·   Partner with the Division President and leadership team to strengthen organizational health, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement.

·   Work closely with Human Resources and other partners on organizational priorities, leadership capability, workforce discussions, and talent-related initiatives.

·   Translate leadership principles and cultural priorities into meaningful organizational actions and employee experiences.

·   Use employee and stakeholder feedback to improve communications, leadership forums, and engagement strategies.

·   Support change-management efforts by creating clarity, reinforcing the rationale for change, and enabling consistent execution across the organization.

·   Foster an inclusive, connected, high-performing culture across functions and geographies.

Cross-Functional Leadership and Influence

·   Serve as a connector across the division, the broader business, and key corporate functions.

·   Build strong partnerships with Chiefs of Staff, Finance, Human Resources, Communications, Strategy, Workforce Planning, and other business stakeholders.

·   Facilitate alignment among senior leaders with different priorities, perspectives, and organizational responsibilities.

·   Influence outcomes without direct authority and maintain momentum on complex, enterprise-level initiatives.

·   Represent the Division President’s priorities with credibility, discretion, and sound business judgment.

·   Provide strategic counsel to senior leaders while maintaining the best interests of the division and broader enterprise.

Education and Experience

·   Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

·   Typically, 7 to 10 or more years of experience in strategy, business operations, program management, organizational leadership, or a related discipline.

·   Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional programs in a large, global, matrixed organization.

·   Experience partnering with senior executives and leadership teams.

·   Experience preparing executive-level presentations, strategic narratives, and decision-support materials.

Knowledge and Skills

·   Strategic thinker with strong business acumen, intellectual curiosity, and systems-thinking capability.

·   Exceptional executive communication, presentation, and business-storytelling skills.

·   Strong executive presence, emotional intelligence, discretion, and interpersonal judgment.

·   Demonstrated ability to simplify complexity and convert ambiguous issues into clear choices and actions.

·   Advanced program-management and organizational skills, with disciplined attention to detail and follow-through.

·   Ability to prioritize effectively and deliver high-quality work in a dynamic, high-pressure environment.

·   Strong influencing and relationship-building skills across functions, leadership levels, and geographies.

·   Ability to work independently while remaining deeply connected to leadership and stakeholder needs.

·   High degree of adaptability, resourcefulness, ownership, and commitment to results.

·   Ability to handle confidential and sensitive business matters appropriately.

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

[https://hpbenefits.ce.alight.com/])

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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