Director Supply Chain, Cluster

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. Job Overview Lead and orchestrate supply chain management across a cluster of cable or connector factories. Serve as the single point of accountability and the primary bridge between factory teams and Global Supply Chain Management. Job Requirements 1. Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) Own consolidated schedules, supply commitments, and execution priorities across the factory cluster, providing Global SCM with timely, accurate, and actionable responses. Drive on-time delivery and net-sales realization by translating customer and business priorities into executable factory plans. Develop decision-ready scenarios and recommendations for business leaders. Identify and resolve plan variances, risks, and opportunities at cluster level. Align factories and cross-functional stakeholders on decisions, trade-offs, and commitments, and drive disciplined follow-through. 2. Capacity Planning, Balancing & Prioritization Lead capacity planning and load balancing across the factory cluster, including bottleneck visibility and constraint management. Drive dynamic scenario planning based on constrained capacity, customer priorities, revenue impact, and operational feasibility. Establish clear build priorities and allocation decisions, ensuring transparent communication to Global SCM and business stakeholders. Play a key role in new-product introduction planning, production ramp-up, and factory schedule commitments. Coordinate cross-factory actions to improve responsiveness, resilience, and utilization of available capacity. 3. Inventory & Material Performance Lead cluster-level inventory governance, including deep dives on shortages, excess and obsolete inventory, and distribution-center and factory inventory days on hand. Drive alignment between production schedules, material plans, procurement actions, and inventory targets. Ensure shortage risks are identified early, escalated with clear business impact, and managed through structured recovery plans. Balance service, cost, cash, and growth when recommending inventory and supply decisions. 4. Factory SCM Transformation & Execution Excellence Lead and collaborate on factory SCM transformation across organization design, master production scheduling, material planning, buying, and digital tool deployment. Assess process, system, organizational, and capacity capabilities across the factory cluster. Deploy standard planning processes and fit-for-purpose tools to strengthen schedule quality, material readiness, and execution discipline. Establish factory performance governance with clear metrics, operating rhythms, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action tracking. Improve the reliability of factory schedules, offers, and customer commitments through standardized processes and execution excellence. Lead change-management activities for business-unit and enterprise initiatives. 5. Leadership & Stakeholder Management Act as the senior SCM focal point for the factory cluster, connecting Global SCM, factory leadership, Procurement, Operations, Engineering, Product Management, Customer Service, and Logistics. Build a high-performing, collaborative network across factories and functions; coach teams to strengthen planning discipline and problem-solving capability. Communicate risks, decisions, and required actions with clarity, urgency, and appropriate executive visibility. Promote end-to-end accountability and a customer-focused mindset across the cluster. What your background should look like Qualifications & Experience Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field. 20+ years of progressive experience in supply chain, planning, manufacturing operations, or a related field, including leadership of complex, multi-site environments. Strong end-to-end supply chain expertise across demand and supply planning, production scheduling, capacity planning, procurement interfaces, inventory, manufacturing coordination, and logistics. Demonstrated experience leading Sales & Operations Execution, constrained-capacity planning, supply recovery, and cross-factory prioritization. Experience driving supply chain transformation, process standardization, digital enablement, and organizational capability building. Project or program management experience, particularly in customer programs, new-product introduction, production ramp-up, or supply recovery. Proven ability to operate effectively in international organizations across regions, time zones, cultures, and matrixed reporting structures. Strong executive communication, analytical problem-solving, stakeholder influence, and change-leadership capabilities.