Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy

Summary

Celestica is seeking a Senior Manager 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.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• 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.
• Evaluate profitable growth opportunities. Evaluate new markets, adjacencies, and business models through customer research, competitive analysis, financial modeling, and explicit recommendations.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Communicate with executive judgment. Develop clear recommendations and materials for leadership, executive reviews, and Board-level strategy discussions.
• Develop the team. Set high standards for strategic framing and analytical rigor, strengthen the team's market intelligence, strategy methods, and internal use of AI.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.

• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.

• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, etc.) are frequently required.

• Frequent overnight travel may be required

• Duties of this position may require working very long hours for months at a time.

Typical Experience

• 10+ Years 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Beneficial but not required: Exposure to hyperscaler and AI infrastructure ecosystems, customer co-design and hardware platform engineering businesses, and advanced manufacturing
• Strong problem-solving, market research, and financial modeling skills, including experience assessing market attractiveness, business cases, unit economics, and investment trade-offs under uncertainty.
• 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.
• The confidence to offer an independent perspective, question prevailing assumptions respectfully, and update your position when the evidence changes.

Typical Education

• A bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, computer science, or equivalent analytical or technical discipline.
• MBA or other relevant advanced degree is beneficial but not required.
  
  

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 $141,143-$221,216

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.