Global Sr Director, Data Center Infrastructure

Req ID: 128059 
Remote Position: Yes 
Region: Americas 
Country: USA 

Summary

Celestica Inc. is a leading global provider of supply chain solutions, specializing in design, manufacturing, and hardware platform solutions for some of the world's most innovative companies. 

Operating through two key segments, Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) and Connectivity & Cloud Solutions (CCS), Celestica serves diverse markets including Aerospace and Defense, Industrial & Energy, HealthTech, Capital Equipment, Communications, and Enterprise. We provide end-to-end product lifecycle solutions that support the most complex products revolutionizing how we live and work.

The Data Center Infrastructure initiative, a critical growth vector, currently sits within our Industrial and Smart Energy segments within ATS, leveraging Celestica's deep expertise in complex systems and global operations.. 

Detailed Description

This pivotal leadership role is responsible for defining and leading Celestica's Data Center Power Infrastructure strategy, with a goal of developing and growing a billion dollar enterprise in the next five years.This requires a visionary leader with entrepreneurial mindset, strategic acumen, and outstanding leadership capabilities to navigate a rapidly evolving market driven by AI and cloud computing demands and long term and energy and resource access.
As a Global Business Office Director, you will serve as a critical techno-commercial and customer-facing leader, responsible for orchestrating cross-functional teams across a portfolio of key customers within the Data Center Infrastructure space, including hyperscalers and colocation providers. You will provide essential, hands-on support to Sales and Business Development, securing new and competitive business in strategic mission-critical and rapidly scaling manufacturing, new product development services as tech evolves, and crucial aftermarket support to ensure 24/7 operations of data centers.
Key Responsibilities:

• P&L Ownership & Growth Acceleration: Hold ultimate responsibility for the Data Center Infrastructure segment's P&L, driving financial performance and achieving growth targets. 
• Strategic Go-to-Market Leadership: Define, champion, and execute a go-to-market strategy for the Data Center Infrastructure initiative, encompassing both organic growth in new solution development and EMS (electronic manufacturing services) market expansion, and strategic inorganic growth approaches (M&A and ecosystem partnerships).
• Inorganic Growth & Integration: Lead the identification, due diligence, and integration of strategic acquisitions and partnerships.
• Market Expansion & Customer Traction: Drive external traction by identifying and capturing new growth opportunities and target customers within the segment..
• Commercial & Pricing Leadership: Own and negotiate complex new contracts and pricing structures, ensuring long-term competitive value and profitable partnerships. 
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Coordinate and lead a multidisciplinary team and engage effectively with executives in a matrix organization.
• End-to-End Solution Delivery: Orchestrate the seamless delivery of comprehensive solutions, encompassing complex product development, commercialization, new product introduction (NPI), robust supply chain management, and optimized manufacturing for high-reliability data center power and cooling systems.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Deep Industry Insight: Comprehensive and forward-looking understanding of the Data Center Infrastructure Power and Cooling Systems market landscape, including key trends in AI-driven power demands, scale and sustainability, modularity, advanced cooling technologies (e.g., liquid cooling), and grid integration challenges.
• Proven Leadership in high stakes complex product development: Over fifteen years of in-depth experience in leading the development, strategic growth, and market launch of high-risk, mission-critical, complex electro-mechanical capital or infrastructure equipment, ideally within Data Center Infrastructure applications (e.g., HVAC, power distribution, controls).
• Results-Driven P&L Management: Demonstrated success in owning and fast growing multi-hundred-million dollar P&Ls, with a clear track record of achieving revenue and profit objectives.
• M&A and Integration Expertise: Extensive experience in leading and executing high stakes inorganic growth strategies, including sourcing, due diligence, closing, and integration of significant acquisitions.
• Commercial Excellence: