Senior Electronics Strategy & Supply Chain Lead

Kearney Italia, Inc.; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 217,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement savings

Medical insurance for employees and 가족

Learning and development programs

Career journey opportunities

Job summary

Kearney seeks a PERL Manager – Electronics to lead engagements and major work streams, serving as the day-to-day client counterpart. You bring a consulting toolkit with experience in technology, electronics, engineering, procurement, sourcing or supply chain, and you will translate technical evidence into practical recommendations, using AI to accelerate the work while owning the answer.

Typically 5+ years of professional experience with meaningful management consulting exposure; you will lead

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience with meaningful management consulting exposure.
• Experience leading teams or major work streams in analytical, client-facing environments.
• Experience with electronics, hardware products, semiconductors, or related cost/sourcing work.
• Strong problem-solving, synthesis, and self-direction; able to frame unfamiliar problems without detailed instructions.
• Clear, concise communication with clients and teams; able to explain technical issues to senior decision makers.

Responsibilities

• Take broad strategic, product, engineering, cost, sourcing and supply-chain questions and convert them into clear work plans and learning agendas.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and manage day-to-day client relationships with alignment on objectives and next steps.
• Define questions to address via benchmarking, teardown, should-cost and design-to-value analyses.
• Integrate technical, market, supplier and financial findings into practical recommendations and implementation implications.
• Lead interviews, workshops and executive presentations with clients, suppliers and senior stakeholders.
• Coach junior consultants and collaborate with India-based engineers and other specialists.
• Learn unfamiliar problem areas quickly and apply AI selectively without defaulting to familiar solutions.
• Review analyses for logical integrity and client relevance; support proposal development and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Management consulting

Team leadership

Client-facing experience

Electronics knowledge

Procurement and sourcing

AI-enabled problem solving

Education

Undergraduate degree

MBA or advanced technical degree

Tools

Benchmarking

Teardown

Should-cost analysis

Design-to-value analyses

Job description

Kearney seeks a PERL Manager – Electronics to lead engagements and major work streams, serving as the day-to-day client counterpart. You bring a consulting toolkit with experience in technology, electronics, engineering, procurement, sourcing or supply chain, and you will translate technical evidence into practical recommendations, using AI to accelerate the work while owning the answer.

Typically 5+ years of professional experience with meaningful management consulting exposure; you will lead