Req ID: 141184
Region: Americas
Country: USA
State/Province: New Hampshire
City: Remote Employee US
Summary
Celestica is seeking a Director of Corporate Strategy for our Connectivity and Cloud Solutions (CCS) business. Celestica's CCS business is a primary technology enabler of the AI data center infrastructure supercycle, surpassing $9B revenue in 2025 and growing 85% year-over-year as of Q2 2026.
The Corporate Strategy team works with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and other senior leaders across the company to shape Celestica's strategic direction and deliver profitable growth. This team is responsible for managing the company's strategic planning process, assessing market opportunities and our ecosystem, defining and driving actionable growth strategies and investments, and supporting the inorganic M&A and investment strategy that advance the company's growth strategy.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Corporate Strategy, CCS, you will help shape our long-term growth strategy and lead high-priority initiatives from strategic framing through decision and into execution. This is a hands-on strategy and leadership role: you will own substantive analysis and recommendations while leading project teams, working across the business, and developing strategy talent.
Knowledge/Skills/Competencies
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Shape the growth agenda. 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. Act as a strategic advisor to the senior leadership team.
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Evaluate profitable growth opportunities. Evaluate new markets, adjacencies, and business models through customer research, competitive analysis, financial modeling, and explicit recommendations.
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Translate market intelligence and technology into strategy. Assess developments in AI infrastructure, compute, networking, storage, and rack-scale systems. Work with engineering and business leaders to determine their implications for customer needs, technology roadmaps, and value position.
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Connect organic and inorganic strategy. Partner with Corporate Development and Investments on acquisition, partnership, and investment opportunities. Provide the strategic rationale, market assessment, and build-versus-buy-versus-partner analysis, support diligence and integration.
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Advance decisions and execution. Drive and support a focused portfolio of high-priority initiatives with business stakeholders. Drive strategic analysis, secure decisions, establish accountable business owners and milestones, and support implementation. Connect strategic priorities to annual planning and measurable results.
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Communicate with executive judgment. Develop clear recommendations and materials for leadership, executive reviews, and Board-level strategy discussions.
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Develop the team . Lead and coach strategy colleagues and cross-functional project teams. Set high standards for strategic framing and analytical rigor, strengthen the team's market intelligence, strategy methods, and internal use of AI.
Physical Demands
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Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
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Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
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Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, etc.) are frequently required.
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Frequent overnight travel may be required
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Duties of this position may require working very long hours for months at a time.
Typical Experience
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12-15+ years of total professional experience, including a minimum of 10 years across top-tier management consulting, corporate strategy groups, or closely related roles with substantial strategy responsibility.
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A 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.
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Evidence that your work led to decisions that were adopted and implemented, such as a market entry, investment priority, portfolio change, partnership, or operating-model decision. You can explain your contribution and the business outcomes.
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Relevant technology-sector experience and strong fluency in AI and cloud infrastructure economics. You can connect compute, networking, storage, and hardware systems trends to customer value, competitive advantage, and strategic recommendations.
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Beneficial but not required:Exposure to hyperscaler and AI infrastructure ecosystems, customer co-design and hardware platform engineering businesses, and advanced manufacturing are beneficial but not required
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Strong problem-solving, market research, and financial modeling skills, including experience assessing market attractiveness, business cases, unit economics, and investment trade-offs under uncertainty.
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Executive presence and excellent written communication. You can turn complex technical, market, and financial findings into concise recommendations and have experience presenting to senior executives and developing executive or Board-level materials.
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The confidence to offer an independent perspective, question prevailing assumptions respectfully, and update your position when the evidence changes. You can influence senior leaders and mobilize teams without relyin g on reporting authority.
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Demonstrated ability to lead and develop others while remaining hands-on with analysis, problem solving, and delivery. You work effectively across levels, functions, and a global organization.
Typical Education
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A bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, computer science, or equivalent analytical or technical discipline.
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MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
The salary range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including by not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate. Salary Range: USD $189,872-$297,014
Notes
This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.
Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Celestica is an E-Verify employer.
COMPANY OVERVIEW:Celestica, Inc. (NYSE: CLS; TSX: CLS) is a technology leader dedicated to driving customer success and market advancements. With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud and advances technologies in high-growth markets. With a talented team and a strategic global network, Celestica helps its customers achieve competitive advantages.
Today, Celestica delivers innovative supply chain solutions globally to customers in strategic two operating and reporting segments: Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) and Connectivity and Cloud Solutions (CC):
ATS: This segment serves customers in complex, regulated and high-reliability markets such as Industrial & Smart Energy, Aerospace & Defense, Semiconductor Capital Equipment, and HealthTech. It is engineering led, with deep expertise in design, manufacturing and lifecycle solutions.
CCS: This segment focuses on high-performance technology solutions and services for the data center, serving hyperscalers, digital native customers and enterprises. Celestica's Platform Solutions offering provides innovative and customizable computing, storage and networking solutions enabling AI-driven growth.
Built on a legacy of trust and performance, Celestica has earned its reputation by delivering results in complex and fast-changing markets. Celestica exceeds customer expectations by identifying trends and staying ahead of the curve. Backed by comprehensive capabilities and a global network across North America, Europe and Asia, Celestica helps customers gain competitive advantage with the quality, flexibility and resiliency they need to respond quickly to shifts in demand. Guided by a bold vision to accelerate market advancements, Celestica delivers innovative solutions and technologies that turn complexity into opportunity. Anchored in teamwork and commitment, Celestica strives to be the most trusted partner to its customers and colleagues worldwide.
Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.
