Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy

Celestica International LP • Bothell, WA

2d • $141,143 - $221,216 • Remote

About The Position

Celestica is seeking a Senior Manager of Corporate Strategy for its Connectivity and Cloud Solutions (CCS) business. The CCS business supports AI data center infrastructure and serves hyperscalers, digital native customers, and enterprises with high-performance computing, storage, and networking solutions.

The Corporate Strategy team works with the Executive Leadership Team and other senior leaders to shape Celestica’s strategic direction and deliver profitable growth. The team manages strategic planning, assesses market opportunities and the company’s ecosystem, defines and advances growth strategies and investments, and supports inorganic M&A and investment strategy.

This role will help develop and refresh the CCS growth strategy, evaluate growth opportunities, assess technology and market developments, and connect organic strategy with acquisitions, partnerships, and investments. It will also advance high-priority initiatives, communicate recommendations to senior executives and the Board, and develop the team’s strategic and analytical capabilities.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of total professional experience, including a minimum of 6 years across top-tier management consulting, corporate strategy groups, or closely related roles with substantial strategy responsibility.
• Track record of independently leading complex strategy engagements, managing multiple workstreams, and exercising sound judgment in a large technology business or similarly complex client environment.
• Evidence that prior work led to adopted and implemented decisions, such as market entry, investment priority, portfolio change, partnership, or operating-model decisions; ability to explain personal contribution and business outcomes.
• Relevant technology-sector experience and strong fluency in AI and cloud infrastructure economics, including connecting compute, networking, storage, and hardware systems trends to customer value, competitive advantage, and strategic recommendations.
• Strong problem-solving, market research, and financial modeling skills, including assessing market attractiveness, business cases, unit economics, and investment trade-offs under uncertainty.
• Executive presence and excellent written communication; ability to turn complex technical, market, and financial findings into concise recommendations, present to senior executives, and develop executive- or Board-level materials.
• Ability to offer an independent perspective, respectfully question prevailing assumptions, and update positions when evidence changes.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, computer science, or an equivalent analytical or technical discipline.
• Duties may require frequent overnight travel and very long hours for months at a time.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to hyperscaler and AI infrastructure ecosystems, customer co-design and hardware platform engineering businesses, and advanced manufacturing.
• MBA or other relevant advanced degree.

Responsibilities

• Help develop and refresh the CCS growth strategy, identifying priority markets, customer segments, and capabilities; translate conclusions into portfolio choices, investment priorities, and multiyear plans.
• Advise the senior leadership team on strategy.
• Evaluate new markets, adjacencies, and business models through customer research, competitive analysis, financial modeling, and recommendations.
• Assess developments in AI infrastructure, compute, networking, storage, and rack-scale systems, and work with engineering and business leaders to determine implications for customer needs, technology roadmaps, and value position.
• Partner with Corporate Development and Investments on acquisition, partnership, and investment opportunities; provide strategic rationale, market assessment, and build-versus-buy-versus-partner analysis, and support diligence and integration.
• Drive and support high-priority initiatives with business stakeholders; conduct strategic analysis, secure decisions, establish accountable owners and milestones, and support implementation.
• Connect strategic priorities to annual planning and measurable results.
• Develop recommendations and materials for leadership, executive reviews, and Board-level strategy discussions.
• Set high standards for strategic framing and analytical rigor, and strengthen the team’s market intelligence, strategy methods, and internal use of AI.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior