Nokia
AI Scale – High-Speed Coherent Pluggable Program Leader – Supply Assurance
- Key Interfaces (Teams)
- Nokia Supply Chain Leads
- Sourcing & Procurement
- R&D Team Leads
Product Management
- Core Outcomes (what success looks like)
- Optimize supply output to meet or exceed market demand requirements
- Align forecasted output to core actionable assumptions
- Organize team to deliver timely updates of supply output based on changing manufacturing dynamics
- Analyze yield results and recommend improvements to increase output and supply efficiency.
- Complete manufacturing Readiness deliverables and targets with plans for all sites to ramp to target
- Drive cross-org decisions quickly with data-based criteria
- Generate and publish a program plan with clearly defined deliverables, dependences associated with each of the teams.
- Track progress relative to plan and report outcomes weekly including accomplishments and key issues / risks.
- For significant deviations from the plan establish tiger teams, root causes, corrective actions.
- Identify emerging program gaps, dependencies, and drive resolution
- Proactively communicate changes in the project plan that could impact the supply outputs
- Manage corresponding set of actions needed to drive progress to the plan
- Generate status reporting for use by the working team and for the executive team
- Report on the program status, risk, issues, actions as part of the ongoing Program meetings
Background
- 8-10 years of experience at introducing new products into Production Ramp
- Comfortable leading without direct authority across org boundaries
- Data-driven decision maker who thrives in ambiguous, high-pressure ramps
Familiarity with the Product Line and specifics of Opto Electronic manufacturing
Leadership Profile
- Relentlessly prioritizes the biggest yield and throughput drivers
- Translates technical complexity into executable plans
- Creates alignment across strong personalities and competing priorities
- Moves fast while protecting product quality
- Ability to rationalize multiple inputs and vast amounts of data into clear status updates needed drive action to plan at both the Working Team / Executive Level
- Encourages visibility and transparent communication between the teams.
Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era. With expertise across fixed, mobile and transport networks, powered by the innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we’re advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.
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If you’re interested in this role but don’t meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences enrich our teams, and you may be just the right candidate for this or another opportunity.
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