Senior Manager​/Director Automotive Strategy

Location:

Work Remote USA (full time) or CA/MA

Our Client is an industry leading, multi-billion dollar Semiconductor Manufacturer. The Automotive industry is changing from a traditional supply chain model into a new set of industry players interacting within a complex ecosystem with new business models. As a top tier automotive supplier, we are creating some of the world’s most advanced and innovative technologies powering the world’s mobility market. Through a customer-centric and market-based approach, the Automotive Strategy leader will chart a path through the ecosystem, understand key value propositions and the market landscape including competition, and support the business segments to grow market share in key focused application areas.

This is a role with high visibility and requires business acumen, capability to holistically understand navigate complex ecosystems, work efficiently across a wide range of disciplines throughout the company, resulting in strategy & market models which are used throughout the company.

• Understand key trends and ecosystem changes within the automotive industry and how they align with Company investment initiatives.
• Support automotive business leaders to grow revenue faster than SAM growth, and gain market share beyond the competition by winning designs.
• Understand whole product solutions including software and hardware and how they translate into key measures for DIN/DWINs, revenue growth, and market share growth.
• Align & drive Automotive BU level market models including TAM, SAM, and SOM, financial revenue model, including competition across the automotive semiconductor and system landscape.
• Understand and support competitive analysis at the sub-segment level.
• Develop both top-down and bottoms up models.
• Interface with regional sales leaders to validate and triangulate for accuracy.
• Support selected strategic partners and key initiatives.
• Exhibit strong teamwork within and beyond the team to drive functional success.
• Passion for automotive business including understanding the big picture while also being detail-oriented and fluent in pivot tables and spreadsheets.
• Understand and stay current on key industry & financial reports.
• BSEE, MSEE and/or MBA degree with 10+ years’ experience.
• Understands issues from multiple points of view, prioritizes customer-centric actions.
• Leads with business first coupled with strong appreciation for technology innovation.
• Experience in operations, finance, marketing, and/or strategy.
• Intellectually curious with a bias for action.
• Influences without authority and drives actionable results.
• Ability to synthesize complex topics into a series of actionable, tangible results.
• Highly collaborative team player able to lead cross functional projects.
• Adaptable and personable, able to interact across the organization, at multiple levels.