Vice President, Strategic Planning

Summary

Join Western Digital as the Vice President of Strategic Planning, a key leadership role shaping and executing the company's strategic vision. Partnering with the executive team, you will lead corporate planning to accelerate innovation, drive efficiencies, and secure competitive advantage. This role involves supporting the Chief Strategy Officer in evaluating and executing strategic growth initiatives, including mergers, acquisitions, and investments. You will define and drive corporate strategy, lead the corporate planning function, oversee financial performance analysis, and serve as a strategic advisor to senior executives. Foster a culture of continuous improvement and act as a key thought partner to the CSO. This position requires a Bachelor's degree, 15+ years of experience in finance, strategy, or investment banking within the technology industry, and proven leadership in corporate planning and growth initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum 15 years of experience in finance, strategy, or investment banking. Technology industry required
• Proven leadership experience in corporate planning and growth initiatives
• Strong ability to assess strategic initiatives, challenge initiative owners constructively, and drive execution feasibility
• Exceptional influencing skills, with the ability to shape strategic direction across functions without direct authority
• Self-motivated, results-driven, and adaptable to fast-paced environments
• Deep analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities

Responsibilities

• Define and drive corporate strategy by shaping the company’s mission, vision, and long-term objectives
• Lead the corporate planning function, establishing a matrixed team of workstream leads to drive alignment between strategy and execution
• Oversee financial and business performance analysis, ensuring data-driven decision-making and setting clear KPIs to track progress
• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior executives, providing thought leadership and constructive challenge to optimize business initiatives
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, promoting operational excellence and efficiency across the organization
• Act as a key thought partner to the CSO, contributing insights on business, technology, and operational strategy

Preferred Qualifications

MBA/MS preferred

Benefits

• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance
• Annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents
• RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires
• 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