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VP Strategy and Transformation

Western Digital
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/9/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/9/2025

The Vice President Transformation will partner with the corporate leadership team and lead transformation initiatives across the organization. The primary responsibility it to lead the Western Digital transformation program to accelerate innovation drive efficiencies modernize the way we operate and to secure our competitive advantage. Further the leader will also partner with the Chief Strategy Officer to evaluate strategic growth alternatives including : mergers acquisitions divestitures license agreements and strategic investments that support the companys overall business objectives.

Key Responsibilities :

  • Set up transformation

Lead the transformation office and build a matrixed team of workstream leads. Make daytoday transformation program level decisions track results and coordinate governance process

  • Act as a challenge and support partner to senior executives and their teams to help achieve targeted results.
  • Lead and mentor the transformation team
  • Lead implementation
  • Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to execute the company wide transformation program

  • Ensure initiatives move into implementation and drive fast pragmatic .
  • Lead the of specific initiatives
  • Serve as a support function allowing line functions to focus on implementation.
  • Report and course correct
  • Track initiative progress to create transparency and enable better faster decisionmaking and results predictability.

  • Provide consistency in internal discussions and Board updates.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement
  • Be a key thought partner for CSO on wide range of business technology and operations topics
  • Stakeholder Engagement :  Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders including the strategy and corporate development team and the initiative owners of the transformation program.

    Qualifications :

  • Bachelors degree minimum; MBA / MS preferred.
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in finance strategy or investment banking
  • Proven track record of leading transformation initiatives and driving business growth.
  • Ability to challenge initiative owners in a constructive way with respect to overall feasibility and impact of initiatives
  • Broad set of influencing skills (ability to influence people and strategic direction without direct control and / or authority)
  • Selfdriven with a high level of motivation and determination
  • Willingness to work in a fastpaced private equity like  environment
  • Strong analytical problemsolving and decisionmaking skills.
  • Excellent leadership and communication abilities strong financial skills
  • Technology industry background
  • Skills :

  • Strategic thinking and planning
  • Financial modeling and analysis
  • Project management
  • Risk management
  • Leadership and team development
  • Effective communication and stakeholder engagement
  • Additional Information :

    Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race color ancestry religion (including religious dress and grooming standards) sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions breastfeeding or related medical conditions) gender (including a persons gender identity gender expression and genderrelated appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the persons assigned sex at birth) age national origin sexual orientation medical condition marital status (including domestic partnership status) physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information protected medical and family care leave Civil Air Patrol status military and veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our nondiscrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Know Your Rights : Workplace Discrimination is Illegal poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

    Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees our company our customers and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging respect and contribution.

    Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

    Based on our experience we anticipate that the application deadline will be 03 / 28 / 2025 3 months from posting) although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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