Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TE Connectivity is a global industrial technology company creating safer, sustainable, productive, and connected solutions. The Sr. Manager, Operations Strategy will enable strategic imperatives for the AD&M Operations Team by assessing strategic trade-offs, developing implementation plans, and driving execution with operations management and functional teams. The role will connect commercial and product management priorities with operational capabilities through strategic assessments, make-versus-buy governance, manufacturing footprint analysis, M&A due diligence, and cross-functional integration.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Partner across functions to remove barriers and drive alignment
- Act as connector across global sites and functions
- Influence without authority to maintain momentum
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.
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