About the Job:
The Senior Manager – Strategic Engineering is responsible for enabling and strengthening the organization’s centralized engineering model by driving strategic resource planning, governance, and deployment of engineering capabilities across multiple technical domains. This role ensures optimal utilization of engineering talent, cost efficiency of bench strength, and alignment of engineering capacity with business priorities and emerging opportunities. Additionally, this position leads centralized resource management through structured skill inventory, demand-driven workforce planning, and the Build-Buy-Borrow framework to ensure sustainable capability development and delivery excellence across entities.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Execute the Strategic Engineering roadmap to support engineering centralization, scalability, and innovation objectives.
- Drive centralization of engineering capabilities based on assessment of group-wide resources, capability gaps, and potential business opportunities.
- Lead engineering resource planning, demand forecasting, and capacity management across centralized engineering pools.
- Establish and maintain a comprehensive engineering skill inventory aligned with current and future demand patterns.
- Implement and operationalize the Build-Buy-Borrow framework for optimal sourcing of engineering talent.
- Engage with business leaders and stakeholders to align resource plans with program delivery needs.
- Identify opportunities to improve resource efficiency, workforce agility, and cost optimization.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Statistical Modelling, Engineering Management, or related technical discipline.
- 8–10 years of experience in engineering resource management, workforce planning, or centralized/shared engineering environments.
- Proven experience managing engineering resource pools, workforce utilization, and centralized capability models.
- Experience implementing workforce strategies such as Build-Buy-Borrow and skill inventory management.
- Preferred experience within aerospace, defense, advanced technology, or regulated industries.
Key Skills:
- Strategic engineering resource planning and optimization.
- Engineering resource management and cost control.
- Workforce planning and capability mapping.
- Centralized engineering model governance.
- Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
- Data-driven decision making and change leadership.
Work Conditions: On-site, Full-time
Language Requirements: Not specified.
