WD · 10 months ago
Director, Corporate Strategy & Business Transformation
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$167K/yr - $236K/yr
7+ years expWestern Digital helps customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data. This leader will partner with corporate, operations and product teams to lead transformation initiatives across the company, supporting the Western Digital transformation program to accelerate innovation and drive efficiencies.
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Responsibilities
Set up transformation program office
Support the leader in setting up the transformation office and building a matrixed team of workstream leads across the company including an efficient governance model. Support day-to-day transformation program level decisions, track and report results, and coordinate governance process for assigned initiatives
Support transformation program implementation
Collaborate with initiative/workstream owners and cross-functional teams to execute the company wide transformation program
Ensure initiatives move into implementation and drive fast, pragmatic execution
Lead the actual execution of specific initiatives in partnership with workstream owners
Serve as a support function to workstream owners, allowing line functions to focus on efficient implementation
Lead transformation program reporting
Track and report initiative progress to create transparency and enable better, faster decision-making and results predictability, both for initiative teams and for senior executive leadership consumption
Ensure consistency between internal discussions and Board updates
Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including the strategy and corporate development team and the initiative/workstream owners involved in the transformation program
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in engineering
Minimum of 7 years of experience with strong exposure to strategic transformation
Proven experience in successfully orchestrating/program-managing complex, company-wide, cross-functional transformation programs and delivering results at or beyond expectations
Willingness to work in a fast-paced 'private equity like' environment
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
Excellent leadership and communication abilities
Strong financial skills
Strategic thinking and planning
Financial modeling and analysis
Project/program management
Risk management
Leadership and team development
Effective communication and stakeholder engagement
Preferred
MBA/MS from top tier institution
Experience in top tier management consulting/investment bank followed by technology company
Benefits
Paid vacation time
Paid sick leave
Medical/dental/vision insurance
Life, accident and disability insurance
Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
Employee assistance program
Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
Tuition reimbursement
Transit
The Applause Program
Employee stock purchase plan
The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
Company
For more than 55 years, WD has built the storage infrastructure that powers the world’s data.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$901.37M2023-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $1.37M
2023-01-31Post Ipo Equity· $900M
2015-09-30Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Kris Sennesael
Chief Financial Officer
Sesh Tirumala
SVP, CIO
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