Sr. Manager, Systems and Processes

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

The Sr. Manager, Systems & Processes is a PMO leadership role responsible for building and scaling the processes, systems, tools, workflows, and operating mechanisms that enable consistent execution across Program Management. Working with cross-functional leaders, this role translates business needs into practical, scalable solutions across planning, governance, data, automation, reporting, and execution. The role also partners with other PMOs and enterprise functions to adopt, adapt, or build capabilities based on business needs.

This position will begin as a remote role and transition toward a hybrid operating model. Candidates located outside Rochester must be based in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone (see below locations) and be able to travel to Rochester frequently to maintain a strong working presence with Program Management, engineering, manufacturing, and leadership teams.

• Canada:
  Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Kingston, or Mississauga
• U.S. East Coast:
  New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida

Relocation to Rochester is preferred and will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

• Define and improve end-to-end operating models across product, equipment, manufacturing, and factory programs.
• Establish scalable workflows, governance, decision forums, operating cadences, handoffs, and escalation paths.
• Clarify roles, ownership, decision rights, dependencies, and interfaces across teams.
• Standardize core Program Management practices across planning, milestones, schedules, risks, issues, changes, decisions, and reporting.
• Identify gaps, bottlenecks, duplication, and recurring execution issues and drive systemic improvement.
• Build dashboards and mechanisms to track strategic goals, initiatives, and execution health.

• Define and evolve the systems and tool architecture supporting planning, execution, reporting, resource visibility, and collaboration.
• Translate business needs into system requirements and workflows.
• Establish clear sources of truth, data standards, and consistency across sites.
• Reduce fragmented tools, duplicate data entry, and manual reporting through integration and automation.
• Evaluate AI-enabled tools and workflow automation where they materially improve execution.

• Build and lead a Systems & Processes team spanning process design, systems, workflow automation, analytics, and PMO infrastructure.
• Define team structure, roles, competencies, and development plans.
• Drive adoption through implementation, training, coaching, and user engagement.
• Build a culture focused on simplicity, execution discipline, continuous improvement, and measurable impact.

• Partner with other PMOs and enterprise process owners to leverage existing systems, tools, and standards.
• Apply an adopt / adapt / build approach rather than recreating capabilities locally.
• Maintain alignment with enterprise requirements while preserving speed and usability.
• Represent the organization in cross-PMO and systems/process forums.
• Improve resource forecasting, expenditure visibility, and decision support.

• 15+ years of experience in PMO leadership, Program Management, Business Operations, process engineering, systems implementation, or execution enablement.
• Experience in hardware, optics, semiconductor, electronics,…