Director Operations Strategy

Director Operations Strategy

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable, and more connected world.

Industrial Solutions Segment

TE operates through two customer facing Segments: The Industrial Solutions Segment (IS) and Transportation Solutions Segment (TS).

The Industrial Solutions Segment delivers products and solutions used in a variety of equipment architectures within Data Centres, Industrial Automation, Robotics, Power Transmission, Medical Devices, Aerospace & Defence, home appliances, and other markets. Our connectivity and sensor solutions allow our customers to meet their current challenges and drive future innovations in their markets.

Job Overview

TE's Operations strategy team is highly meritocratic, values diversity, invests significant resources in the professional development of its members, and has a record of providing them with career growth opportunities. This function is a training ground for future leadership roles in Operations.

Role Description

This Operations Strategy Director / Sr. Director will report to the Operations Strategy Vice President for the Industrial Solutions Segment.

This position can be based in most locations in US/ Europe / Asia, with travel expected less than 30% of the time to meet colleagues and clients, attend industry events, etc.

This is an opportunity for a talented individual who wants to accelerate his or her career within a leading multinational corporation and build a career within strategy or line roles.

As a member of the Industrial Solutions Operations Strategy team, you will contribute to our growth strategy, competitiveness, and operations performance by working on strategic decisions and key business issues. The end goal is to make operations the key reason we succeed in the market.

Key Responsibilities

• Solve complex operations problems by building a robust hypothesis and plan in collaboration with the business unit teams.
• Develop strategies and approaches to fulfill complex project assignments in creative and meaningful ways.
• Support development of robust strategic plan.
• Effectively translate business requests into well-defined problems.
• Benchmark and identify key trends across markets, industries, and competitors that affect our businesses.
• Analyze industry structure, competitive dynamics, market attractiveness, technology, and regulatory trends.
• Create analytical models to address key operations questions and translate output into clear stories.
• Lead the overall fact base creation and communication process.
• Develop playbooks and maturity models to standardize best in class practices and train teams on those topics.
• Contribute to the professional development of larger operations team.

Preferred Candidate Profile

Success in the role requires strong business acumen and strategic mindset, drive to solve complex business problems, exceptional communication and presentation skills, ability to collaborate seamlessly with team members at multiple levels in the organization, and the skills and tenacity to achieve results without formal authority.

In addition, successful candidate will have the following qualifications, experiences, and skills:

Experiences

• Experience in strategy formulation and implementation within a complex organization.
• Experience in managing strategy and strategy implementation projects through their lifecycles.
• Experience working at a top tier General Management Consulting Firm and serving diversified industrials or high-tech clients.
• Having additional operational leadership experience will be an added advantage.

Problem Solving, Analytics, Work Structure and Management, and Communications

• Can structure and solve complex problems using a hypothesis-driven approach.
• Can structure work, manage strategy projects, and provide thought leadership to the team members.
• Proficient in sourcing and analyzing complex data.

Clear and concise oral and written communication - ability to synthesize and effectively communicate key messages.

• Excellent active listening skills.
• Thought leadership and business sense.
• Ability to architect and create insights through strategy tools, frameworks, and processes.

People, Teamwork and Leadership

• Experience managing teams in a matrix environment.
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.
• Able to work with and through others and to influence others to move toward a common vision or goal.
• Being hands-on, staying connected to the ongoing strategy deployment and helping manage implementation when necessary.

Strong relationship builder.

• Executive presence; not through arrogance, but rather collaboration and influence.
• High cross-cultural awareness.
• Orientation towards people development, tailoring projects and work priorities to help nurture talent and extended through regular coaching and feedback.

Passion and Drive

• Drive to create a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future.
• Passion for technology.
• Intellectual curiosity to ask probing questions, make discoveries and always continue to learn.
• Drive to find the right answer.
• Intellectual rigor.

Values

• Integrity, Accountability, Inclusivity, Innovation and Teamwork.
• Commitment to excellence.
• Passion for technology.
• Passion for talent development.
• Results driven.

Growth Potential

The Strategy organization invests significant attention and effort to professionally develop its team members and accelerate their career growth within TE.

High performance and value delivery in this role will lead to domestic and international opportunities to progress to:

• Operations roles such as leading functions within a business unit, plant management, multi-site leaders, leading all the way up to Vice President of operations.
• Strategy roles with increasing responsibilities and scope in corporate, segment or business unit strategy, leading all the way up to Chief Strategy Officer.
• Business roles with P&L responsibility, such as product management, commercial, and general management.

Competencies

SET: Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)