Description
We are seeking a Director, Industrial Capacity to join our Corporate Development team. As a key member of our team, you will develop a repeatable analytical process for assessing our long-term industrial capacity needs. You will partner with leaders from various organisations to identify significant growth areas where we should provide market signal in advance of demand. Your responsibilities will include collecting internal production targets, the design change landscape, and supplier production plans to set up a robust industrial capacity plan capable of scaling with multiple configurations and production rates. You will communicate forecasts to internal stakeholders that accurately reflect our business requirements while hedging against potential upside or change in business direction.
In tandem with a deal leader from the Corporate Development team, you will identify specific areas where we should increase the depth and breadth of available suppliers, and execute strategic partnerships and long-term supplier agreements to create increased capacity. You will draft long-form thought leadership, talking points, and other collateral for our executive team to use in discussion with elected representatives, customers, the White House, industry partners, and in public communications. You will liaise with our government and media relations functions to share our perspective on building industrial capacity.
You will guide and mentor peers and team members across the company to strengthen organisational resiliency and ingrain the concept of increasing industrial capacity in advance of demand. You will define and incorporate organisation-level processes and improvements that enable the business to scale and efficiently utilise its purchasing power, leveraging learnings from world-class manufacturers and other high-volume industries. You will develop easy-to-read reporting and dashboards to measure team KPIs and support the program as it scales.