WW Manufacturing Front-End

Lumentum • Greensboro, NC

3d

About The Position

Serve as the trusted finance business partner to WW Manufacturing Front-End leadership and factory operations teams. Collaborate with executive leadership to develop and execute long-term operational and financial strategies aligned with company objectives. Lead strategic planning processes including long-range planning, annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, and monthly operational reviews. Provide financial analysis and operational insights to drive productivity improvements, manufacturing efficiency, and cost optimization. Develop and oversee key manufacturing and operational KPIs to monitor factory performance, utilization, spending, productivity, inventory, and profitability. Produce insightful and intuitive reporting packages for leadership, translating complex manufacturing and financial data into actionable recommendations. Analyze factory financial statements, manufacturing variances, inventory trends, utilization metrics, labor efficiencies, and product cost performance to identify opportunities for operational improvement. Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, and Engineering organizations to evaluate factory investments, capacity planning, and operational scalability. Lead capital budgeting processes and support business case development for manufacturing expansion, automation, equipment investments, and productivity initiatives. Partner with global manufacturing finance teams to ensure spending, headcount, and operational performance align with business plans and strategic objectives. Support inventory management processes, including inventory controls, excess and obsolescence analysis, cycle time improvements, and absorption management. Drive financial discipline and accountability across manufacturing operations through strong cross-functional collaboration and communication. Provide analytical insights directly to executive leadership, enabling informed decision-making and identification of cost savings and operational improvement opportunities. Support external and internal audit requirements, compliance initiatives, and applicable statutory and tax-related manufacturing finance activities. Supervise, mentor, and develop finance team members while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Lumentum is illuminating the networks of tomorrow with advanced photonic technologies that enable AI, data centers, telecom, industrial, and sensing applications. As AI accelerates the global demand for bandwidth and energy efficiency, we deliver the building blocks that keep data moving reliably, efficiently, and at massive scale. Our optical products support AI and compute infrastructure, cloud and DCI environments, metro and long-haul networks, while our lasers drive breakthroughs in precision manufacturing and sensing. For nearly five decades, Lumentum has been at the intersection of light and innovation. What began with a vision to harness the power of photonics has evolved into a global force driving the communication infrastructure of tomorrow. At Lumentum, we’re building more than a business—we’re building a team of passionate innovators whose drive to collaborate, create, and connect the world fuels everything we do. We are part of the AI technology revolution and we are illuminating the path forward. Headquartered in San Jose, California, we operate worldwide through a network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations.

Requirements

• Finance business partner to WW Manufacturing Front-End leadership and factory operations teams.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to develop and execute long-term operational and financial strategies.
• Lead strategic planning processes (long-range planning, annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, monthly operational reviews).
• Provide financial analysis and operational insights to drive productivity improvements, manufacturing efficiency, and cost optimization.
• Develop and oversee key manufacturing and operational KPIs.
• Produce reporting packages for leadership, translating complex manufacturing and financial data into actionable recommendations.
• Analyze factory financial statements, manufacturing variances, inventory trends, utilization metrics, labor efficiencies, and product cost performance.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, and Engineering organizations to evaluate factory investments, capacity planning, and operational scalability.
• Lead capital budgeting processes and support business case development for manufacturing expansion, automation, equipment investments, and productivity initiatives.
• Partner with global manufacturing finance teams.
• Support inventory management processes (inventory controls, excess and obsolescence analysis, cycle time improvements, absorption management).
• Drive financial discipline and accountability across manufacturing operations.
• Provide analytical insights directly to executive leadership.
• Support external and internal audit requirements, compliance initiatives, and applicable statutory and tax-related manufacturing finance activities.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop finance team members.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the trusted finance business partner to WW Manufacturing Front-End leadership and factory operations teams.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to develop and execute long-term operational and financial strategies aligned with company objectives.
• Lead strategic planning processes including long-range planning, annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, and monthly operational reviews.
• Provide financial analysis and operational insights to drive productivity improvements, manufacturing efficiency, and cost optimization.
• Develop and oversee key manufacturing and operational KPIs to monitor factory performance, utilization, spending, productivity, inventory, and profitability.
• Produce insightful and intuitive reporting packages for leadership, translating complex manufacturing and financial data into actionable recommendations.
• Analyze factory financial statements, manufacturing variances, inventory trends, utilization metrics, labor efficiencies, and product cost performance to identify opportunities for operational improvement.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, and Engineering organizations to evaluate factory investments, capacity planning, and operational scalability.
• Lead capital budgeting processes and support business case development for manufacturing expansion, automation, equipment investments, and productivity initiatives.
• Partner with global manufacturing finance teams to ensure spending, headcount, and operational performance align with business plans and strategic objectives.
• Support inventory management processes, including inventory controls, excess and obsolescence analysis, cycle time improvements, and absorption management.
• Drive financial discipline and accountability across manufacturing operations through strong cross-functional collaboration and communication.
• Provide analytical insights directly to executive leadership, enabling informed decision-making and identification of cost savings and operational improvement opportunities.
• Support external and internal audit requirements, compliance initiatives, and applicable statutory and tax-related manufacturing finance activities.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop finance team members while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed