At Apple, the business problem is to lead the team within WW Operations and be the primary operations interface to the core product development team and other functional organizations within Apple to ensure the successful launch of products towards meeting its stated cost, quality, schedule, availability and customer experience goals.
Requirements
- Technical expertise
- Prior OEM management experience
- Experience in manufacturing, process engineering or product development
- Experience working with off-shore manufacturers
- Use data to drive decisions
Responsibilities
- Leading ramp availability for all product modules with Materials, Quality, Engineering and other internal and external teams
- Ensuring security, materials, equipment, fixtures, staffing, training, documentation plans are in place at our partners
- Drives responsive supply chains that optimize lowest costs, operational flexibility and high quality
- Assesses, analyzes, consolidates, and communicates risk and status clearly and succinctly to management, calling out key issues and presenting options for resolution to the cross-functional executive team through the new product reviews and other executive forums
- Provides links from the Ops & Engineering Teams to the Factory teams from various development builds through new product introduction, including product hand-off to Sustaining Operations Management
Other
- 8+ years experience
- BS or MS degree in Engineering
- Ability to travel internationally up to 20-25%
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to present to management
- Clear, consistent communication
