Sr. Manager, , Business Planning & Operations

About the role

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. Position Summary The Sr. Manager, Business Operations (BizOps) builds and runs the business operating system connecting strategy, commercial priorities, financial commitments, and execution across the Optics business. The role gives leadership an integrated, forward-looking view of performance, exposes risks early, and turns reviews into decisions and accountable action. This is a player-coach role: initially lead the work hands-on, establish the operating cadence, and build a capable team as the business scales. Partner with other business and functional leaders to operate on the business.

Location & Work Model

Preferred location: Rochester, NY area. Candidates outside Rochester must be based in one of the following locations, travel to Rochester frequently, and maintain a strong onsite presence with engineering, manufacturing, and leadership teams: Canada: Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Kingston, or Mississauga. United States: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, or Florida. Relocation may be considered on a case‑by‑case basis.

Responsibilities

• Design and run weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual business reviews, with clear purpose, participants, decision owners, and escalation paths.
• Design an action‑biased operating system that will set the pace, rhythm and determine health of the organization.
• Connect functional reviews to leadership decisions and corporate commitments; translate outcomes into updated priorities, resources, program plans, and named actions with follow‑through.
• Partner with PMO to implement shared workflows, scorecards, and automation, leveraging existing enterprise and PMO capabilities rather than creating parallel systems.
• Bring together Sales, Product Management, Strategy, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and Program Management to reconcile commercial opportunity with execution capacity.
• Coordinate reviews of sales pipeline, voice of customer, competition, go‑to‑market strategy, portfolio priorities, product roadmaps, and resource allocation.
• Integrate financial forecasts and performance with footprint