Job Title: Core Component Strategy Lead
Location: Lafayette, IN, Mossville, IL
Job Type: W2 Contract
Expected hours per week: 40 hours per week
Schedule: On-site
Pay Range: $35-42.50 per hour
Job Description:
This role partners with the Core Component Strategy Lead to develop, maintain, and communicate global component capacity strategies supporting branded and non branded products. The position connects long-term capacity strategy with NSI project execution, ensuring changes in timing, scope, supplier capability, or demand are understood and reflected in the overall strategy.
Key Responsibilities: Maintain global component capacity strategies and associated strategy maps; Partner with NSI leads to track execution against the capacity strategy; Assess the strategic impact of project delays, scope changes, demand changes, and supplier constraints; Maintain and integrate key planning inputs, including How Much By When (HMBW), supplier agreements, project plans, and capacity assumptions; Participate in supplier and internal planning meetings to understand capacity commitments, risks, and changes; Identify gaps between planned capacity and expected business requirements;Develop clear, multi-level communication of capacity strategy, status, risks, and required actions; Support alignment across Engineering, Supply Chain, Purchasing, SDE, operations, and other business partners; Ensure strategy documentation remains current as business conditions and execution plans evolve.
Basic Requirements: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to connect detailed project information to broader business strategy; Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, inputs, and stakeholders; Strong written and verbal communication skills, including communication across multiple organizational levels; Proficiency with planning, data analysis, and project-management tools; expertise in MS Office Suite, MS Project, PowerBI; BS in related field; minimum 5-7 years related experience.
Preferred Qualifications: Experience working across global teams and suppliers; Ability to translate complex capacity and project information into concise leadership-level communication.
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- Maintain global component capacity strategies and associated strategy maps
- Partner with NSI leads to track execution against the capacity strategy.
- Assess the strategic impact of project delays, scope changes, demand changes, and supplier constraints.
- Maintain and integrate key planning inputs, including How Much By When (HMBW), supplier agreements, project plans, and capacity assumptions.
- Participate in supplier and internal planning meetings to understand capacity commitments, risks, and changes.
- Identify gaps between planned capacity and expected business requirements.
- Develop clear, multi-level communication of capacity strategy, status, risks, and required actions.
- Support alignment across Engineering, Supply Chain, Purchasing, SDE, operations, and other business partners.
- Ensure strategy documentation remains current as business conditions and execution plans evolve.
Typical task breakdown:
- Support the Core Components Strategy Lead
- Strategy assessments and recommendations
- Facilitation of planning meetings
- Data mining / extraction (Excel, PowerBI)
Education & Experience Required:
- Years of experience: 5-7
- Degree requirement: Bachelor’s degree
- Degrees considered: Business Management, Economics, Finance, Human Resources, Organizational Leadership, Technology (Mechanical, Industrial), Technical Communications or relevant technical field required.
- Do you accept internships as job experience: Yes – 6mo max; preferred around engineering technical roles
Technical Skills
- MS Office suite of tools
- Ability to use Power BI to generate reports
- Engineering or technical experience preferred
- Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts
Soft Skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment collaboratively and independently
- Ability to work effectively within defined processes
- Highly organized and able to work independently
- Able to communicate detailed information in a concise manner including executive summaries
- Ability to communicate upwards to key leaders and managers
- Desire for personal and professional growth
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