Senior Manager, Planning and Strategy

Summary

Join Western Digital as a strategic leader driving organizational growth. Develop and execute long-term strategic plans, conduct market analysis, and provide insights to senior leadership. Foster cross-functional collaboration, ensuring alignment with business priorities. Leverage data-driven decision-making to optimize strategy and drive continuous improvement. This role requires strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, along with significant experience in strategic planning within a technology company. The position reports to the Director, Strategy and Planning, with strong exposure to the CSO and CFO.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business or related field
• Minimum of 7 years of experience with strong exposure to strategic planning, experience in top tier management consulting/investment bank/private equity followed by technology company
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced environment
• Strong judgment and decisiveness when dealing with timely, deadline-driven, content-related issues and concerns
• Insatiable curiosity to learn new domains, keep up with industry innovation, and constantly ask ‘why’
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive business process improvements
• Experience in driving change management across complex organizational structures

Responsibilities

• Serve as a thought partner to teams across product, engineering, data science, marketing and sales, providing strategic operational planning and insights
• Collaborate with Finance & Operations (F&S) to provide critical context, scenario modeling inputs, and prioritization guidance for leadership investment decisions
• Act as a key liaison across teams, fostering alignment and ensuring effective execution of long-term business priorities
• Collect, analyze, and synthesize data to inform strategic decisions and identify opportunities for growth and efficiency
• Design, implement, and refine processes and workflows to enhance team and organizational productivity
• Partner with functional groups to assess operational challenges and develop solutions aligned with company goals
• Define, implement, monitor, and report on key performance metrics to assess business health
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) and drive the strategy, design, AI/automation, and operationalization of cost-effective planning workflows
• Manage dependencies, risks, and workflow integration
• Design and implement a standardized system for managing changes to planning workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA/MS from top tier institution preferred
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Excellent leadership and communication abilities, strong financial skills
• Excellent written (memos and presentations) and verbal communication skills; timely communication

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
• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan
• Annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents