Africa Business Planner - Personal Systems at Hewlett Packard - HP

Responsibilities:

• Broad understanding of the category product, business management and sales challenges and strategies.
• Actively contributes to the definition of the category business plan.
• Product line and quota responsibility for a significant share of the product range, or a specific customer segment.
• Functional responsibility for the team in one or several areas (market analysis, marketing engagement).
• Specialized in developing and implementing business plans and procedures
• Support the Personal Category Function across the Africa cluster

Education and Experience Required:

• University or Bachelors degree in Marketing or Finance.
• Typically 5-8 years of professional experience in Business Planning or Sales experience preferred.
• Experience of Personal Systems Business in Africa would be an added advantage

Knowledge and Skills:

• IT industry knowledge.
• Business planning skills, multidimensional.
• Financial planning and modelling skills, comfortable to manage high complexity business planning and reporting.
• Strong communication skills at senior management internally and externally.
• Knowledge of promotional marketing processes and practices.
• Interpersonal skills and cross functional expertise (sales, supply chain, marketing).