Manufacturing Strategy Manager

About the role

The Director of Manufacturing Strategy will lead the design of Advanced Optics' manufacturing system over a 3–5 year horizon, translating business strategy into a clear roadmap across:

• Making decisions about where to manufacture, which capabilities to invest in, and what external partnerships to form
• Capacity planning and capital deployment
• Structural cost transformation and gross margin expansion
• Long-range manufacturing capability development

Responsibilities

This role operates at the intersection of operations, finance, engineering, supply chain, and commercial strategy and will serve as a key thought partner to the Advanced Optics leadership team. It also leads a small team of two and is especially well suited for a leader who can operate effectively in a highly matrixed environment.

• Lead the design of Advanced Optics’ manufacturing system over a 3–5 year horizon
• Translate business strategy into a clear roadmap across various areas
• Operate at the intersection of operations, finance, engineering, supply chain, and commercial strategy
• Lead a small team of two
• Operate effectively in a highly matrixed environment

Requirements

• 10–15+ years of combined experience in manufacturing strategy, operations strategy, supply chain strategy, industrial transformation, or related fields
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field
• Experience working in a highly matrixed organization, with demonstrated success influencing across functions, priorities, and leadership levels
• Experience in a growing business or division where manufacturing strategy needed to evolve to support scale, competitiveness, and stronger operational performance
• Experience helping a growing, low-volume, high-complexity business build a more scalable, competitive, and operationally excellent manufacturing model
• Experience in one or more of the following:
• Global manufacturing footprint design
• Capacity strategy and capital planning
• Make-versus-buy and sourcing strategy
• Complex, high-mix or high-complexity manufacturing environments
• Strong financial modeling and business case development skills, including experience with capital analysis and return metrics such as NPV and ROIC
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive cross-functional decisions
• Ability to bring structure and clarity to complex, ambiguous problems

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