Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy (San Francisco-remote) 1

Celestica Inc.; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a strategic leader to join their Corporate Strategy team. This remote role involves collaborating with senior leaders to shape the company's strategic direction, manage growth initiatives, and drive business transformations. The ideal candidate will bring over 8 years of experience, preferably from top-tier consulting or investment banking, and possess strong analytical and communication skills. This is an excellent opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, where your expertise will help navigate complex challenges and foster partnerships across diverse functions. If you are passionate about strategy and eager to contribute to a forward-thinking organization, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in management consulting or corporate strategy.
• Skilled at creating complex financial models and driving impact.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic initiatives across various business functions.
• Analyze corporate portfolio scenarios and assess market opportunities.

Skills

Strategic Planning

Analytical Skills

Financial Modeling

Project Management

Communication Skills

Influencing Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in analytical field

MBA

Job description

The Corporate Strategy team works with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and other senior leaders across the company to shape Celestica's strategic direction and deliver profitable growth. This team is responsible for managing the company's strategic planning process, assessing market opportunities and threats, recommending and prioritizing actionable growth strategies and investments, defining and executing business transformations, and supporting mergers and acquisitions that advance the company's strategic objectives.

Primary Roles & Responsibilities

• Support development, management, and execution of strategic initiatives for business unit as well as functions including manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, quality, HR and IT.
• Analyze potential corporate portfolio scenarios including business divestitures and acquisitions.
• Conduct ongoing assessments of industry and competitive landscape.
• Build strong partnerships within the business and collaborate with segment and/or functional leaders to drive greater efficiency, effectiveness, and capability.
• Lead special initiatives as requested by the ELT in support of the strategic vision.
• Own the corporate strategy operating model, including learning and development, as well as performance management.
• Manage intern hiring, onboarding, and development.
• Support development of executive-level communications at all levels of the company, including the Board of Directors.

Desired Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience, with three or more years in top-tier management consulting, investment banking, or corporate strategy.
• Bachelor’s degree in an analytical field, such as engineering, economics, finance or business; MBA strongly preferred.
• Experience in at least one of Celestica’s end markets (aerospace and defense, capital equipment, medical technology, industrials, smart energy, cloud, networking, communications).
• Experience leading project teams of cross functional leaders as well as managing and developing a team of junior resources.
• Skilled at influencing and communicating with a diverse set of functions and audiences.
• Ability to create complex financial models to simulate portfolio-level scenarios.
• Relentless focus on driving tangible impact to the corporation.

Location

This is a remote position, with preference given to candidates based in San Francisco or Bay Area.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.