Program Director, New Business, Manufacturing Operations

Datacenter is a strategic growth priority within China Engineering & Manufacturing with CDU as one of the key capabilities enabling scalable delivery. This role leads the datacenter growth strategyowning multi-year planning cross-functional execution and customer engagementwhile representing Manufacturing/Product to stand up the core delivery capability and ensure scalable on-time execution. The program targets growth from 150M to 300M over the next 5 years through the right portfolio capacity and capability build-out and an operating model that can scale. The role works closely with the global team to align strategy productization/standardization and operating mechanisms and to contribute insights and execution learnings back into the global roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive the overall Datacenter growth strategy (35 year) with a clear roadmap to deliver 150M 300M including key growth levers (portfolio capacity customers cost competitiveness and delivery model).
• Define the datacenter market entry / GTM approach with Sales/BD and Product: target segments value proposition pricing/cost position inputs and repeatable plays that scale beyond the first deployments.
• Lead strategic customer engagement (from early shaping to delivery): translate customer requirements into scalable solutions manage scope/change and build long-term expansion plans with key accounts.
• Partner with global datacenter teams (strategy product engineering operations) to align growth plans to the global roadmap; drive standardization/productization from the manufacturing and product interface and scale best practices across regions.
• Build and manage the ecosystem strategy (suppliers subcontractors integrators/partners as applicable): qualify partners set sourcing strategy and create scalable contracting and performance mechanisms.
• Own investment and capacity planning with Engineering/Manufacturing/Finance: business cases build-vs-buy recommendations capex/opex planning and utilization/ramp plans to support multi-year growth.
• Establish the operating model for datacenter growth execution: governance decision forums KPI dashboards and a cadence to drive alignment across Engineering and functions (Supply Chain Quality EHS Finance Legal HR Facilities/IT).
• Represent Manufacturing to stand up the CDU core team (org design roles/responsibilities ways of working) and lead startup preparations to enable repeatable delivery at scale.
• Lead end-to-end execution for CDU as the initial anchor program: integrated master schedule across design permitting construction commissioning and production launch; drive milestone management and recovery plans to ensure on-time delivery.
• Own integrated risk and issue management (utilities permitting supply chain yield/ramp readiness quality EHS); drive cross-functional mitigation and timely executive escalations.
• Build reusable assets to scale growth: solution/implementation playbooks standard work cost models supplier performance routines and lessons learned to accelerate future datacenter deployments.