Director, Portfolio Solutions Marketing

Role Description

The Product Strategy Director 2 is responsible for defining the go to market strategy as well as defining product vision, positioning, pricing and marketing within the market / segment area of responsibility. They will interface with the senior executives within Celestica and customers in addition to market experts. They will focus on increasing our market awareness, drive our product strategy and increase the market acceptance of Celestica's product offerings. They will work with the Technology Solutions team to contribute to our technology strategy, and the account management leadership group to drive profitable growth and Product Management team to conduct research/launch products.

• Responsible for analyzing our competitive positioning and defining our competitive strategy/differentiation.
• Defines market strategy with penetration plans including target customers.
• Creates new product strategy/vision and timing.
• Ensures effective market competitiveness and pricing analysis.
• Responsible for defining the Go-To-Market strategy.
• Leads marketing, promotion and launch strategy initiatives.
• Provides market and technology research, competitive analysis to progress our product and technology strategy.
• Integrates market knowledge, strategic insight and a strong user focus to help our organization create new products.
• Partners with senior leaders and clients to develop a range of marketing growth strategies such as customer, product, touchpoint and channel.

Qualifications

• Strategic problem solving and analytical skills, including experience in structuring high level strategic issues into quantitative analyses and developing actionable recommendations.
• Market knowledge and experience that can have a direct impact on our business.
• Ability to craft market / business unit / customer strategies.
• Robust understanding of how to structure and drive cross-functional programs to deliver on strategic plans.
• The ability to develop trust and strong working relationships with other business functions across the company.
• The credibility and interpersonal skills to influence Company executives and other decision makers.
• The ability to direct and mentor junior team members and subject matter experts assigned to the projects.
• The desire to work cross-functionally and enhance our working culture.
• Has deep expertise in server, storage and networking products; hardware, software, end workloads/solutions and work experience in strategy development leadership roles working with product solutions.
• Understands implications of trends across business & functions.
• Proven leadership and organizational skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, analytical / critical thinking skills.
• Capable of handling multiple projects simultaneously.

Requirements

• Twelve plus years of applicable experience, including experience in the leadership of a major operations or support organization.
• Experience in strategic planning and providing leadership to global organizations.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education in an applicable field and experience. MBA is highly preferred.
• Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
• Overnight travel may be required.

Company Description

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.