Strategy Manager –AI Integration & Enterprise Planning

At Jabil we strive to make ANYTHING POSSIBLE and EVERYTHING BETTER. We are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions. With over 50 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

 

Strategy Manager –AI Integration & Enterprise Planning

Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Reports to: Sr. Director, Investor Relations & Strategy
Department: Enterprise Strategy

Role Summary

We are hiring a Strategy Manager who will be at the forefront of modernizing Jabil’s long-term strategic planning processes by deeply embedding AI-driven processes into every phase of insight generation, market evaluation, and executive decision support.

This role is more than just a strategist, you’ll be a champion of strategy development, bringing new methods of analysis, synthesis, and communication into how we plan and lead across the enterprise. Working closely with divisional and segment leaders, you’ll shape Jabil’s multi-year roadmap by integrating advanced technologies with sharp strategic thinking, all in service for faster, better, and more scalable planning outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

AI-Integrated Strategic Planning

• Infuse AI tools and develop processes into all phases of the long-term planning (LTP) cycle.
• Develop frameworks and repeatable workflows using AI to surface insights, analyze market shifts, challenge assumptions, and test strategic scenarios.
• Coach business leaders on integrating AI into their own planning activities; act as an internal consultant and enabler for AI-assisted strategic thinking.

Partnership with Divisional Leaders

• Support strategy development efforts for Jabil’s leaders during the LTP process.
• Provide critical feedback on draft plans, helping teams sharpen their narratives, articulate trade-offs, and align strategies with enterprise-wide priorities.
• Coordinate and co-author executive-ready materials for senior leadership presentations.

AI-Enhanced Market Intelligence

• Use AI tools to synthesize external market signals, track competitor movement, and identify white space across industries and customer segments.
• Maintain an always-on insight engine through the smart application of LLMs for rapid benchmarking, customer trends, and macroeconomic analysis.

Executive Enablement

• Help translate technical and strategic complexity into compelling presentations for the CEO, CFO, and executive team.
• Ensure consistency, clarity, and AI-enhanced storytelling across business unit strategy narratives.

Qualifications

Experience

• 5–8 years of experience in strategy, strategic operations, business planning, or internal consulting.
• Experience working in an enterprise-scale, operationally intensive business environment (e.g., manufacturing, engineering, or supply chain-focused sectors).
• Exposure to or ownership of business planning processes, ideally with a forward-looking or innovation lens.

AI & Technical Fluency

• Hands-on experience using LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) and customizing them for research, planning, or internal enablement.
• Strong understanding of AI’s strategic potential — including prompt engineering, insight extraction, and applied use cases in business settings.
• Passion for experimentation and improving how strategy work gets done through technology.

Strategic & Communication Skills

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to craft compelling narratives and present ideas clearly to senior audiences.
• Structured thinker with strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Comfortable engaging with ambiguity, learning new tools, and leading change in how work is approached.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, or a related field.
• MBA or similar advanced degree a plus, but not required.

Preferred Candidate Traits

• Well-versed in Jabil’s business model, operations, or end markets, or has operated in similarly complex global businesses.
• Thrives at the intersection of technology, strategy, and enterprise transformation.
• Highly collaborative, curious, and motivated to pioneer new approaches to co