Sr. Manager, Operations Strategy - Remote

Job Overview

Reporting to the Sr. Director, Operations Strategy, the Sr. Manager, Operations Strategy role serves to enable strategic imperatives for the AD&M Operations Team, driving assessments of strategic trade-offs, building implementation plans, and driving execution with operations management and functional teams. This role will serve as a key connection between commercial and product management strategic priorities, and operational capabilities and enablement.

Please Note: This position requires access to information which is subject to stringent controls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). 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.

Job Requirements

Strategic Assessments

• 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.

Make vs. Buy Council Leader

• 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

Standardized Manufacturing Footprint Assessment

• 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

M&A Operational Due Diligence (when required)

• 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

Cross-Functional Integration

• Partner across functions to remove barriers and drive alignment
• Act as connector across global sites and functions
• Influence without authority to maintain momentum

What your background should look like

• 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

Competencies