Manufacturing Infrastructure Program Manager - Product Operations
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Operations and Supply Chain
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Summary
Product Operations group is looking to add a Manufacturing Infrastructure Program Manager to support data systems, automation, and tools that enhance manufacturing of Apple's products. You will be responsible for driving the readiness of data collection and reporting for Apple’s products around the world. This team works to ensure our product manufacturing data collection, analytics, security and reporting ecosystem at our factories are ready along with new product requirements during its many lifecycles (prototype through sustaining).
This team is made up of creative innovators and problem solvers who tackle unique challenges to ideate, replicate those ideas into concepts and deliver new solutions in the data space. It takes deeply dedicated, intelligent and hard-working individuals to maintain and exceed the high expectations for the exciting variety of products at Apple.
Key Qualifications
- Minimum 5-7 years of project or program management, internal product management or supply chain management experience in highly technical field
- Program, product management backgrounds with proven track record of end to end project execution
- Experience with manufacturing infrastructure concepts with ability to define requirements or identify process improvements
- Analytical mindset with ability to work with large data sets for planning, problem solving and or identifying improvements
- Proven relationship building and ability to effectively influence peers and management
- General operations and factory knowledge, good judgment on what is meaningful to drive impact
- Tableau / Data Visualization skills and scripting (Python, SQL)
- Able to develop and present complex problems in a simple way under tight timelines and present the findings both at a working and executive level
- Able to work independently when managing multiple priorities in an unstructured, global and virtual environment is essential.
- Highly desirable to have high tech manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, NPI or Manufacturing Operations related education / experience (but not required)
Description
The Product Operations Data Team is looking for an extraordinary Program manager. You will lead, design and implement our data strategy for Apple's massive supply chain and help build the future of our manufacturing systems. The job requires interfacing the product teams across Apple and help them define their infrastructure requirements. Collaborate with the Infrastructure teams to aid end-to-end planning, readiness, optimization and deployment of equipment across our extensive factory base to meet our high scale manufacturing timelines. Additionally, you will get the opportunity to design and innovate with the tools & systems used to manage this activity, including the use of Tableau dashboards. If this sounds like you, come join our team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Program management of Operations initiatives - scoping, prioritization, resourcing, cost reduction and implementation
Build and lead teams cross-functional teams, set agenda, set schedule, set deliverables, assign actions, drive completion, report status
Provide strategic and tactical recommendations for optimizing deployment processes and challenge the business on requirements to reduce Capex and Opex expenses with critical metrics for performance
Lead the definition and execution of scalable modern solutions to support future technologies, cloud strategies to meet internal customer needs without compromising performance
Lead the ideation, prototyping, and business justification/validation of tools & systems for Product Ops
Own fulfillment of service requests related to manufacturing data collection across Apple’s supply network and product lines towards service levels
Prototype solutions before providing recommendations on directions. e.g. create dashboard mock-ups before investing in development effort
Comfortable and flexible in serving both supporting and leadership roles for various projects
Education & Experience
BS Degree or equivalent degree + experience, MBA is considered a plus.
Additional Requirements
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