TE Connectivity - Manager - Corporate Strategy (8-10 yrs)

Manager Corporate Strategy

About Company:

TE Connectivity (NYSE TEL, www.te.com) is the largest electronic connector manufacturer in the world and a global industrial technology leader, enabling today's most revolutionary breakthroughs and providing solutions that power electric vehicles, digital factories, data centers, smart cities, medical devices, smart grids, and smart homes. Our innovation enables sustainable communities, life-saving medical care, zero-emission modes of transportation, the global communications infrastructure, and efficient utility networks.

TE is attractively positioned to continue driving fast growth across its businesses by leveraging multiple global mega trends, including minimally invasive medical procedures, cloud, autonomous and electric vehicles, renewable energy, and factory automation, among others. TE has a leading position across several growing applications, including high voltage connectivity for electric vehicles and high-speed cloud connectivity.

Job Overview:

- This position reports to a Corporate Strategy Director and is based in TE's office campus in Bangalore, along with around 30 other strategists. India is an important business hub for TE, with over 7,000 employees, including R&D, Engineering, Strategy, and other functions.

- The Manager will help solve the most important global strategic questions across TE Connectivity, such as:

- Help identify new growth platforms, growth opportunities within business units, and across businesses through the identification of attractive market spaces.

- Help the Business Segments and Business Units develop strategies that drive above-market organic and inorganic growth.

- Gather real-time input as the external environment (e.g., technology, customer needs, regulations, competitors, etc.) evolves.

- Determine what it takes to win, assessing competitive position and business models, and then helping the organizing to align on the strategic direction and execution plan.

- Act as a white space strategist and thought partner to identify new growth areas and opportunities for operational improvements.

- Focus on key initiatives to develop the talent both within India and the wider strategy community.

Key Responsibilities:

- This is an opportunity for a talented individual who wants to accelerate his or her career within a global corporate strategy team leading to career options within strategy and line roles across TE in India and abroad.

- As a member of the Corporate Strategy team, this individual will contribute to TE's portfolio decisions, competitive strategy, and performance by being an advisor to the CEO and the top leadership team.

- As a member of the Corporate Strategy team, you will.

- Effectively translate business requests into well-defined problems.

- Collaborates with the corporate strategy and business unit teams to solve complex business problems.

- Guide and coach India Corporate strategy team and manage their day to day activities.

- Provide leadership, mentorship, and community building for India-based strategy talent.

- Develop strategies and approaches to fulfill complex project assignments in creative and meaningful ways.

- Analyzing industry structure, competitive dynamics, and market attractiveness and its likely evolution to inform strategy development.

- Identify key trends across markets, industries, and competitors that affect our businesses.

- Create analytical models to address key business questions and translate output into clear stories.

- Support development of robust strategic plan for TE Connectivity.

- Lead the overall fact base creation and communication process.

Preferred Candidate Profile:

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

- 8-10 years of post-MBA experience with a top tier General Management Consulting Firm, with a focus on high tech or diversified industrials clients, is preferred but not required.

- Individual should be a strategy practitioner well versed in the theory and tools of strategy formulation as well as the practical implementation of strategy within a complex organization.

- Well-honed understanding of the key levers to deliver superior and consistent total shareholder return (TSR).

- Operational track record of dealing with strategic business issues including microeconomics, industry structure, operations strategy, and finance.

- Familiarity with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle with experience applying these skills in managing teams and leading projects.