TE Connectivity
Senior Manager Operations Strategic (f/m/d) 1
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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.
About The 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, Battery Energy Storage Systems, EV Charging Infrastructure, 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.
This Operations Strategy Manager will report to the Senior Director Operations Strategy for the Industrial Solutions Segment.
This position can be based in most locations in EMEA, 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 why we succeed in the market.
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Job Requirements
- 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 operational project assignments in creative and meaningful ways.
- Support development of robust strategic plan.
- Benchmark and identify key trends across markets, industries, and competitors that affect our operations in various businesses.
- Create analytical models to address key operations questions and translate output into clear stories.
- Lead the overall fact-based creation and communication process.
- Develop playbooks and maturity models to standardize best in class practices and train teams on those topics.
- Establish, monitor and coordinate effective execution of various projects using a strong project management framework leading to successful execution.
- Contribute to the professional development of larger operations team.
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What Your Background Should Look Like
- Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance or engineering with 13+ years’ experience including Operations experience in a manufacturing environment and 3+ years in consulting. Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA) preferred.
- 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 work experience in manufacturing of 5 years focused on problem solving and process development or supply chain will be an added advantage.
Problem Solving, Analytics, Work Structure and Management, and Communications
- Ability to structure and solve complex problems using a hypothesis-driven approach.
- Ability to 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 individual contributors.
- 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.
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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.
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).
What Te Connectivity Offers
We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!
- Competitive Salary Package
- Performance-Based Bonus Plans
- Health and Wellness Incentives
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Community Outreach Programs / Charity Events
- Employee Resource Group
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD
TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.
Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.
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