Manager, Strategic Investments

Req ID: 121325

Remote Position: Yes

Region: Americas

Country: United States

City: San Jose

Summary

The Corporate Strategy team works with the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and other senior leaders across the company to shape Celestica's strategic direction and deliver profitable growth. This team is responsible for managing the company's strategic planning process, assessing market opportunities and threats, recommending and prioritizing actionable growth strategies and investments, defining and executing business transformations, and driving mergers and acquisitions that advance the company's objectives.

This is a remote position, with preference given to candidates based in San Francisco or Bay Area.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

• Conduct all activities related to strategic investment in early-stage technology companies
• Conduct market research and analysis to identify and screen new investment opportunities in the green energy sector
• Manage and document meetings with entrepreneurs, portfolio companies and handle deal flow
• Develop and maintain relationships with potential deal sources and key partners in the venture ecosystem
• Work with the sales and account teams to conduct assessments of early-stage companies
• Identify and analyze new business models and technologies to determine value creation opportunities
• Build ongoing and ad hoc reports on performance of investments

Desired Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of total experience with at least 2 years in investment banking, venture capital, or private equity
• Experience in conducting due diligence with strong financial analysis and modeling skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Familiar with the venture ecosystem, and demonstrated passion for entrepreneurship and new technologies that will shape the future
• Strong attention to detail and comfortable to work in an entrepreneurial environment
• Capable of managing multiple simultaneous deals and discussions

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Celestica’s policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.

Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.