Director, Product and Portfolio Execution (Aerospace Defense and Marine)

Director, Product and Portfolio Execution (Aerospace Defense and Marine)

Director, Product and Portfolio Execution (Aerospace Defense and Marine)
At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.
The Director of Product and Portfolio Execution will lead the integrated execution system for the TE’s AD&M (Aerospace Defense and Marine) business unit. This leader will translate strategic direction into a clear, prioritized execution roadmap; align resources and cross-functional capacity to agreed priorities; establish governance, KPI discipline, and operating rhythms; and drive measurable value realization across customer, operational, growth, and financial outcomes. The position requires a general-manager mindset, strong operational and financial acumen, and the ability to lead complex, cross-functional change and influence senior stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
Translate annual and long-range priorities into an integrated execution roadmap with clear outcomes, owners, milestones, resources, dependencies, and decision gates.
Establish a single portfolio view across customer recovery, delivery, capacity, dual sourcing, cost, quality, NPI/industrialization, footprint, and strategic growth initiatives.
Run prioritization and sequencing processes that distinguish the critical few from lower-value activity and explicitly manage resource conflicts to enable growth
Maintain disciplined follow-through on commitments, corrective actions, and leadership decisions.

• Cross-functional integration and decision velocity

Integrate Product Management, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, Sales, and Program Management into one execution model.
Make interdependencies, constraints, and trade-offs visible early, frame decision options, and drive timely resolution at the appropriate level.
Clarify decision rights and accountability so teams can act with speed while maintaining appropriate controls.
Escalate and manage material customer, financial, capacity, quality, technology, or schedule risks with fact-based recovery options.

• Customer delivery and operational recovery

Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to connect portfolio priorities to schedule attainment, backlog/PDOS reduction, capacity, material availability, lead-time, and recovery plans.
Ensure customer commitments and recovery actions are supported by clear assumptions, constraints, owners, and dates.
Drive structured root-cause and corrective-action governance for recurring delivery and quality breakdowns, while functional teams retain technical ownership.
Create visibility to progress on dual sourcing, labor/headcount constraints, supplier actions, quality fixes, and capacity investments.

• Growth, innovation, and industrialization execution

Coordinate execution of priority product and platform launches
Connect business cases and roadmaps to engineering capacity, manufacturing readiness, qualification, sourcing, commercialization, and launch milestones.
Drive readiness reviews that test whether customer demand, product maturity, quality, supply, capacity, and commercial plans are aligned before commitments are made.
Ensure major footprint, vertical-integration, insourcing, and localization initiatives have integrated plans and measurable benefit realization.

• Governance, analytics, and performance management

Design and lead weekly and monthly execution forums that focus on decisions, trade-offs, recovery actions, and outcomes rather than status reporting.
Develop concise executive dashboards showing plan versus actual, risk, financial/customer impact, critical dependencies, and actions required.
Establish consistent definitions, data ownership, and leading indicators across priority initiatives.
Partner with Finance to validate benefits, investments, trade-offs, and realization against approved business cases and operating plans.

• Leadership and organizational capability

Coach initiative owners in execution planning, risk management, structured problem solving, and executive communication.
Build an ownership culture with clear commitments, transparent escalation, and strong say-do discipline.
Identify recurring operating-model friction and implement standard work that improves speed and reliability.
Lead through influence across regions, sites, and functions while strengthening trust and shared accountability.
Ensure execution mechanisms and decisions comply with applicable TE policies and business requirements, including safety, quality, ethics, information security, data privacy, and regulatory expectations.
Build and sustain a high-performance culture focused on engagement, capability building, succession, accountability, and continuous improvement.

What your background should look like

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
10+ years of progressive experience across product management, operations, program management, supply chain, engineering, business transformation, or comparable roles in a complex industrial environment.
Demonstrated success leading multi-function portfolios or transformations with measurable customer, operational, and financial outcomes.
Strong understanding of integrated business planning, portfolio governance, capacity and supply planning, new-product/industrialization processes, and financial business cases.
Proven ability to structure ambiguous problems, prioritize across competing demands, and convert strategy into executable plans.
Executive-level communication and synthesis skills, with the credibility to challenge assumptions and influence senior leaders.
Experience in aerospace, defense, or another regulated engineered-products environment is strongly preferred.
Ability to work across global sites and time zones and travel based on business needs.
This role requires access to information subject to ITAR and/or EAR; therefore, the successful candidate must currently qualify as a U.S. person under applicable U.S. export-control laws and regulations.

Execution-centered strategic thinker: sees the full system and drives the critical details that determine outcomes.
Enterprise integrator: aligns functions around shared priorities rather than optimizing within silos.
Decisive and fact-based: frames choices, surfaces consequences, and closes decisions.
Calm under pressure: creates clarity and momentum in complex customer or operational situations.
Ownership builder: strengthens capability and accountability rather than becoming the permanent owner of everyone else’s work.

SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)
Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, Teamwork
This position may involve working with technical data, technology, software/source code, hardware or other items (collectively “items) subject to U.S. and non-U.S. export control laws and regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for TE to verify a candidate’s national origin and/or citizenship status to determine whether a U.S. or other government export license is required prior to releasing its technologies to the candidate. If TE determines that TE will require a license or will be prohibited by applicable laws from providing the candidate with items necessary for the performance of this position, then TE expressly reserves the right to either a) make an offer of employment contingent upon TE receiving required export licenses from the appropriate government agency, b) consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions TE shall establish in its sole discretion, or c) decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.
Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at and on , , and
Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $192,400 – 288,600 (subject to change dependent on physical location) Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity. Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits
A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.
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