Director, Technology & Partner Strategy

Job Summary

Define and maintain all aspects of the company’s technology strategy for a defined sector. Provides oversight and direction for all related design activity. Responsible for technical evaluation of technologies as part of strategy formulation and in support of business development initiatives. Develops a portfolio of solutions for strategic market applications. Represents the technical face of Jabil to the global sector.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Research, evaluate and maintain a catalogue of sector related technologies.
• Identify opportunities and technologies that leverage Jabil’s capabilities.
• Define technology-based solutions for target markets/applications.
• Assess gaps in capabilities from a technical perspective and identify resource requirements.
• Formalize strategy and present a quarterly update to the organization.

Business Development Initiatives

• Evaluate technologies of prospective customers for Jabil fit.
• Lead due diligence team for customer/technology acquisition.
• Identify and engage potential technology/business partners.
• Leverage and expand global water industries based network on behalf of Jabil.

Service Offering

• Develop a portfolio of application solutions to supplement customer technologies.
• Establish and manage a design for X service offering to the customer community.
• Formulate an offering for federal government and defense bid opportunities.

Design Oversight

• Define and recruit required resources to support the product development cycle.
• Drives lowest cost solutions through phases of development cycle: concept, functional features, system architecture, components, and design process.
• Enables standardization of components and sub-assemblies across customer’s systems.
• Provides technical expertise and guidance to engineering staff.
• Develops and documents high level system architectures and designs.
• Affirms product reliability through implementation of appropriate design/engineering disciplines(DFSS).
• Establish design standards applicable to the specific target industry (i.e. ANSI, ASME, AWWA, NSF etc.).

Operations Support

• Establish quality control standards applicable to the target industry (i.e. ISO, U.L.).
• Supports supply chain development activities.
• Provides technical expertise and guidance to workcell members and operational team.
• Advises on all aspects of operational strategy leveraging experience and knowledge base.
• Comply and follow all procedures within the company security policy.

Job Qualifications

• Must be able to demonstrate expertise in a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Must have extensive experience in driving solutions in a global business environment related to the specific sector of focus.
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
• Proficiency in use of personal computers, Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word and Powerpoint) and e-mail skills required.
• Bachelor's Degree required. Degree in Engineering preferred. MSEE or MBA preferred.
• 15 years of work-related experience required in a related field, preferably in 5 years of experience in engineering management role. Or an equivalent combination of education, training or experience.