Western Digital Senior Manager – Planning Strategy 

United States, California, San Jose 

71413564

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Job Summary:

Reports To:Director, Strategy and Planning

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Strategic Partnership & Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • 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.
• Operational Excellence & Data-Driven Strategy:
  • 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.

Required:

• 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

Preferred:

• MBA/MS from top tier institution preferred

Skills:

• 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

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.

• You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either Western Digital’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including 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; and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.