SR. DIRECTOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
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
The Senior Director of Continuous Improvement will lead enterprise-wide initiatives that strengthen TE Connectivity’s culture of operational excellence. This role is not only about improving processes—it is about developing people, enabling leaders, and embedding a continuous improvement mindset across the organisation. Working globally and cross-functionally, the Senior Director will align business strategy with execution, foster collaboration, and build the organisational capabilities that drive long-term success
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading global continuous improvement programs that build capability and deliver measurable results.
- Partnering with senior leadership to connect enterprise strategy with day-to-day operations.
- Embedding standard frameworks and best practices to drive consistency across functions.
- Diagnosing organisational performance gaps and enabling teams to implement effective solutions.
- Building a culture of inclusion, learning, and accountability where employees thrive and innovate
Position could be Remote international travel as needed (50-75%)
Expected Leadership Competencies
- Foster a strong culture of trust, empathy, and inclusion to create high-performing, collaborative teams.
- Invest in the growth and development of people, enabling lifelong learning and capability building.
- Inspire and communicate a clear organisational vision, connecting individual contributions to enterprise goals.
- Support leaders and teams in developing the mindset and tools for continuous improvement.
- Shape a culture that values employee experience, resilience, and shared success.
- Design and deliver performance improvement approaches that align with long-term strategic objectives.
Expected Business Competencies
- Business Acumen: Apply deep understanding of business concepts to shape informed, enterprise-level decisions.
- Anticipating Future Possibilities: Encourage innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning to keep the organisation competitive.
- Decision Making: Use data, insight, and judgment to support decisions that balance short-term needs with long-term goals.
- Problem Solving: Apply proven methods to anticipate, diagnose, and resolve complex organisational challenges.
- Sustainable Growth: Cultivate a growth mindset across teams, mentoring and coaching to strengthen collective capability.
- Trade-offs and Risks: Make sound choices under pressure, balancing risk, opportunity, and integrity.
- Communication: Communicate clearly and persuasively, adapting style to influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Vision and Strategy: Translate enterprise strategy into actionable goals that inspire and align people.
- Managing Change: Lead organisational adaptation, enabling teams to embrace change and deliver innovation.
- Process Improvement: Promote continuous improvement of processes, products, and services as a vehicle for people development and enterprise success.
- Strategic Thinking: Connect the “big picture” to practical execution, making decisions that enable sustainable growth.
Expected Lean Leadership Competencies
- Gemba Leadership: Engage across all functions - manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, and office-based operations - to coach, observe, and enable problem solving at the point of value.
- Capability Building: Develop people at every level to apply Lean principles and continuous improvement across the enterprise.
- Enterprise Thinking: Connect improvement initiatives across functions and geographies, aligning with organisational strategy and goals.
- Respect for People: Empower employees to contribute ideas, take ownership, and drive improvements in both operational and knowledge-based processes.
- Improvement: Embed Lean practices into processes, systems, and behaviours across the organisation, ensuring long-lasting results.
Competencies
ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. 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, medical technology and more. With more than 85,000 employees, including 9,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 130 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
WHAT TE CONNECTIVITY OFFERS:
We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority!
• Competitive Salary Package
• Performance-Based Bonus Plans
• Health and Wellness Incentives
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Community Outreach Programs / Charity Events
• Employee Resource Group
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD
TE Connectivity has become aware of fraudulent recruitment activities being conducted by individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent TE Connectivity. Please be advised that TE Connectivity never requests payment or fees from job applicants at any stage of the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings are posted exclusively on our official careers website at te.com/careers, and all email communications from our recruitment team will come only from actual email addresses ending in @te.com. If you receive any suspicious communications, we strongly advise you not to engage or provide any personal information, and to report the incident to your local authorities.
Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.
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