Sr Director, NPI/Innovation

Job Posting Start Date 11-04-2024 Job Posting End Date 01-04-2025

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion and cultivate a workplace culture of belonging that views uniqueness as a competitive edge and builds a community that enables our people to push the limits of innovation to make great products that create value and improve people's lives.

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Job Summary

The Senior Director, NPI/Innovation will be based out of North America. This person will work with the Global Accounts team; Global Operations team and Advanced Manufacturing team executives to directly engage the customer to develop proactive business solutions to grow business with our core customer. The Sr Director will also engage sites and the Account Business Development teams to drive strategic and operational initiatives to ensure alignment of our customer and our Flex Global Ops team.

What a typical day looks like:

• Impacts the long-term (annual) direction and financial or operational success of the Account.
• Approves and/or creates functional processes or technologies. Establishes and ensures effective achievement of functional strategic plans and objectives for the site.
• May have P&L responsibility for the function.
• Develops plans for structuring and implementing major initiatives
• This person will Work with Customer and internal engineers to develop processes, Design for Experiments & ensure timelines for successful product rollout.
• Successfully guide and influence senior level management, executives and key clients in their commitment input needs.
• Actively participates in and/or supports major equipment alignment alongside decision makers to appropriately achieve yield targets.
• Provides the necessary/accurate direction and support to site Managers to ensure projects are executed as planned.
• Ensure internal engineering has correct equipment, process control, process training plans for customer designs.
• In depth NPI for Customer success.
• Work with variety of global sites to ensure

The Experience we are looking to add to our team:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering
• 10+ years experience with NPI managing complex Customers or Product lines.
• Customer Interfacing experience at executive or Senior Leadership level.
• Broad experience working with multiple manufacturing sites.
• Demonstrates mastery of functional, technical knowledge in relation to other functions and a complete understanding of the function and those of related businesses.

Some of our preferred experiences:

• ASIC Assembly and Test experience
• Masters degree

Here are a few examples of what you’ll get for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Matching 401K
• PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee discounts at local retailers

Job Category

Production Engineering

Is Sponsorship Available?

No

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