Senior Manager, Automotive Strategy

Company: TE Connectivity
Location: Troy
Posted on: January 15, 2021

Job Description:

Job DescriptionAt TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. Company Overview TE Connectivity Ltd., is a $14 billion global technology and manufacturing leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. Joined with our consistent growth and strategic M&A, TE will continue delivering industry-leading total shareholder returns (360% TE TSR over FY10-17, versus 175% for the S&P 500 overall). For more than 75 years, our connectivity and sensor solutions, proven in the harshest environments, have enabled advancements in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy, data communications, and the home. TE is positioned to continue capitalizing on the mega trends underpinning secular growth - including Digital, IoT, Healthcare, and transportation Electronification. By virtue of these content growth opportunities arrayed across the diverse markets and broad applications we serve, TE's business model will continue delivering above-market organic growth rates. TE fulfills its purpose not only through our products but in how we operate: supporting our local communities, ensuring sustainability, and living our values of Integrity, Accountability, Teamwork, and Innovation (we are recognized amongst the "World's Most Ethical Companies" as tracked by the Ethisphere Institute). Consistently regarded as a "Great Place to Work" and as one of "America's Best Employers" (Forbes). With 78,000 employees, including more than 7,000 engineers, working alongside customers in nearly 150 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat and Twitter. Job Overview As a member of the Automotive Strategy team, you will help shape the Automotive Business Unit's portfolio composition and competitive strategy by being an advisor to the Global Automotive General Manager and the leadership team of the Automotive Business Unit. The Senior Manager, Automotive Strategy will work directly with the Vice President of Strategy for the Transportation Solutions Segment to create shareholder value by helping address the most important strategic questions across Automotive Business Unit, including: --- Support the Global and Regional General Managers as well as Global Product Managers of the Automotive Business in developing strategies that drive above-market organic and inorganic growth, working closely with leadership to ensure both cross-functional involvement and real-time input as the external environment (e.g., technology, customer needs, regulations, competitors, etc.) evolves. --- Manage projects to help identify new growth platforms, growth opportunities within business units, and across businesses - through the identification of attractive market spaces, determining what it takes to win, assessing competitive position and business models, and then helping the organization to align on strategic direction and execution of the plan. --- Ensure that the business strategies he/she develops clearly articulate the business choices, are well-defined, lay out talent and resource requirements, and are implementable. --- Successful strategy delivery should result in industry-leading growth and profit margins. --- Identify, synthesize and communicate key trends across industries, segments, regions, and competitors. --- Help support the strategic planning process and deepen strategic capabilities in the organization. --- Support research and analysis for identifying and assessing inorganic opportunities. --- Drive change - designing and implementing projects to execute on strategic objectives. --- Support and enhance talent management for the strategy organization, including talent acquisition, development, and retention objectives. What you will be doing: --- Assist in strategy development that enables the organization to frame and make critical strategic decisions to profitably grow and defend the business. Help the organization to refine its "where to play" and "how to win" choices to drive growth, improve profitability, and sustain competitive advantage. --- Lead joint BU and Corporate teams in solving complex business problems using a hands-on hypothesis-driven approach: o Provide project management and thought leadership to project teams o Guide and coach project team members in using a hypothesis-driven approach o Lead from the front by taking on complex workstreams and providing hands-on support, including serving in an individual contributor capacity when required o Develop project deliverables and executive presentation documents o Lead primary and secondary research o Frame discussion of findings and recommendations o Become a trusted advisor to BU and Segment leadership --- Support the successful development and deployment of the annual strategy development process o Contribute to the development of a robust strategic plan for the Automotive BU given current market/business

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