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Job Overview
Reporting to the Sr. Director, Operations Strategy, the Sr. Manager, Operations Strategy role serves to enable strategic imperatives for the AD&M Operations Team, driving assessments of strategic trade-offs, building implementation plans, and driving execution with operations management and functional teams. This role will serve as a key connection between commercial and product management strategic priorities, and operational capabilities and enablement.
Please Note: This position requires access to information which is subject to stringent controls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, person granted asylee status in the U.S., or person admitted into the U.S. as a refugee.
Job Requirements
Strategic Assessments
- Understand business, commercial, and product management strategies and translate them into operational requirements for execution
- Serve as a thought partner to Ops Leaders shaping priorities for strategy enablement
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative assessments of strategic project proposals including: footprint, make vs. buy, capacity investments, etc.
Make vs. Buy Council Leader
- Own development and deployment of a revised standard for Make vs. buy decision making process and integration with existing NPD and change processes
- Coordinate with finance for an integrated and aligned MvB financial assessment tool
- Chair and lead the new MvB council, coordinating between operations, manufacturing engineering, and procurement teams to capture inputs required for MvB decision making
- Escalate MvB decision making as required
Standardized Manufacturing Footprint Assessment
- Develop a standard process for assessing footprint opportunities including quantitative and qualitative factors
- Develop a standard financial assessment framework in coordination with finance and operations teams
- Determine data sources for operational assessments and standard frameworks for one-time-cost evaluations
- Deploy standard on upcoming and inflight footprint projects
M&A Operational Due Diligence (when required)
- As the business considers potential M&A targets – assess operational synergies and fit with AD&M’s network and structure
- Determine overlap in operational capabilities and opportunities for consolidation
- Assess mutual gap closure of operational capabilities
- Determine and compute manufacturing, indirect, inventory, and procurement synergies between AD&M and potential targets
Cross-Functional Integration
- Partner across functions to remove barriers and drive alignment
- Act as connector across global sites and functions
- Influence without authority to maintain momentum
What your background should look like
- 8–12+ years in operations, project management, manufacturing engineering, strategic sourcing, or related roles
- This role requires a minimum of a Bachelors degree in an appropriate field
- 10-25% domestic and international travel
- Experience leading strategic projects from assessment through execution
- Experience translating business strategies into operational requirements
- Strong financial literacy and competency in analyzing large operational data sets
- Comfort with a wide range of data systems and analysis tools
- Exceptional executive communication skills
Competencies
ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.
Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
COMPENSATION
• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $171,400 - $257,100 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
• Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
• Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits
BENEFITS
• A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.
EOE, Including Disability/Vets
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