OPEX Operations Lead

* United States of America
- North Carolina
- Morrisville

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Summary

At Lenovo, we believe in smarter technology for all, and that same mindset applies to how we run the business. This role offers the opportunity to help shape a more disciplined, data-driven, and scalable operating model by strengthening OPEX governance, improving expense visibility, and simplifying how work gets done. The OPEX Operations Lead translates complexity into clarity, enables better resource allocation decisions, and applies AI-enabled ways of working to improve the speed, accuracy, and consistency of OPEX processes.

For a leader who enjoys building structure, influencing across functions, and driving meaningful operational change, this is a high-impact opportunity to help modernize how the business operates.

Lenovo is seeking an experienced OPEX Operations Lead to drive operational expense governance, spend visibility, and process excellence across CSW. This role will lead the operating rhythms, reporting, and execution discipline required to manage OPEX activities effectively across vendor spend, labor allocations, purchase orders, invoicing, accrual readiness, and recurring alignment with Finance partners.

The ideal candidate brings strong business, analytical, and operational acumen, a systems mindset, and the ability to turn complex data into clear business insights. This individual will also help advance AI-enabled ways of working by identifying practical opportunities to use AI tools and task-specific AI agents to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and automate repeatable OPEX administration, reporting, and governance activities within appropriate control and governance boundaries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end OPEX governance across vendor spend, non-recurring engineering (NRE), and labor allocations to support accuracy, compliance, transparency, and alignment with business priorities.
• Own and continuously improve OPEX governance and business operating cadences, including Budget Board preparation, approval workflows, weekly OPEX reviews, and recurring reviews with Finance partners.
• Partner closely with Finance, business leaders, and operational stakeholders to support budget outlooks, spend projections, variance explanations, accrual readiness, and leadership decision support.
• Drive operational discipline across purchase-order intake, validation, approval routing, invoice coordination, and audit-ready documentation.
• Develop and standardize reporting, dashboards, executive updates, and business narratives that improve expense transparency, identify risks and…