Director of Corporate Strategy — AI & Cloud Growth (Remote)

Celestica; New Hampshire; Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 297,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica seeks a Director of Corporate Strategy for its Connectivity and Cloud Solutions (CCS) business. This hands-on role shapes long-term growth, leads strategic framing and execution, and partners with executive leadership to drive profitable expansion in AI data center infrastructure.

You will oversee market analysis, financial modeling, and strategic recommendations, coordinating cross-functional teams and guiding investments and inorganic growth initiatives to sustain Celestica’s

Qualifications

• 12–15+ years of total professional experience, including a minimum of 10 years across top-tier management consulting, corporate strategy groups, or closely related roles with substantial strategy responsibility.
• A track record of independently leading complex strategy engagements, managing multiple workstreams, and exercising sound judgment in a large technology business or similarly complex client environment.
• Evidence that your work led to decisions that were adopted and implemented, such as a market entry, investment priority, portfolio change, partnership, or operating-model decision. You can explain your contribution and the business outcomes.
• Relevant technology-sector experience and strong fluency in AI and cloud infrastructure economics. You can connect compute, networking, storage, and hardware systems trends to customer value, competitive advantage, and strategic recommendations.
• Beneficial but not required:Exposure to hyperscaler and AI infrastructure ecosystems, customer co-design and hardware platform engineering businesses, and advanced manufacturing are beneficial but not required
• Strong problem-solving, market research, and financial modeling skills, including experience assessing market attractiveness, business cases, unit economics, and investment trade-offs under uncertainty.
• Executive presence and excellent written communication. You can turn complex technical, market, and financial findings into concise recommendations and have experience presenting to senior executives and developing executive or Board-level materials.
• The confidence to offer an independent perspective, question prevailing assumptions respectfully, and update your position when the evidence changes. You can influence senior leaders and mobilize teams without relyin g on reporting authority.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop others while remaining hands-on with analysis, problem solving, and delivery. You work effectively across levels, functions, and a global organization.

Responsibilities

• Shape the growth agenda. Help develop and refresh the CCS growth strategy, identifying priority markets, customer segments, and capabilities. Translate conclusions into portfolio choices, investment priorities, and multiyear plans. Act as a strategic advisor to the senior leadership team.
• Evaluate profitable growth opportunities. Evaluate new markets, adjacencies, and business models through customer research, competitive analysis, financial modeling, and explicit recommendations.
• Translate market intelligence and technology into strategy. Assess developments in AI infrastructure, compute, networking, storage, and rack-scale systems. Work with engineering and business leaders to determine their implications for customer needs, technology roadmaps, and value position.
• Connect organic and inorganic strategy. Partner with Corporate Development and Investments on acquisition, partnership, and investment opportunities. Provide the strategic rationale, market assessment, and build-versus-buy-versus-partner analysis, support diligence and integration.
• Advance decisions and execution. Drive and support a focused portfolio of high-priority initiatives with business stakeholders. Drive strategic analysis, secure decisions, establish accountable business owners and milestones, and support implementation.
• Communicate with executive judgment. Develop clear recommendations and materials for leadership, executive reviews, and Board-level strategy discussions.
• Develop the team. Lead and coach strategy colleagues and cross-functional project teams. Set high standards for strategic framing and analytical rigor, strengthen the team's market intelligence, strategy methods, and internal use of AI.

Skills

Problem solving

Market research

Financial modeling

Executive presence

Written communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, computer science, or equivalent analytical or technical discipline

MBA or other relevant advanced degree

Job description

Celestica seeks a Director of Corporate Strategy for its Connectivity and Cloud Solutions (CCS) business. This hands-on role shapes long-term growth, leads strategic framing and execution, and partners with executive leadership to drive profitable expansion in AI data center infrastructure.

You will oversee market analysis, financial modeling, and strategic recommendations, coordinating cross-functional teams and guiding investments and inorganic growth initiatives to sustain Celestica’s