NPI Capacity Program Manager - iPhone

The NPI Capacity Program Management team is a high impact team that provides leaders critical insights that drive decision-making and execution for Apple's largest businesses including iPhone. The team works on critical projects such as defining product sourcing strategy, producing long term capacity plans, providing guidance for NPI launch volume and influencing NPI capital expenditure planning.

On a day to day basis the team plays a meaningful role in defining and driving strategic and operational priorities as well as improvements across the product ops organization. Individuals on this team are analytically savvy, adept at ambiguous problem solving and have a commitment to engage and seek maximum impact.

The main work streams include: Strategic Planning, Execution and Reporting

Strategic Planning: Review long-term requirements for iPhone, Vision Pro and AirTag manufacturing and devise scenarios and tradeoff analyses that optimize conflicting priorities. Quantify manufacturing capacity needs for the complete product portfolio, determine business allocation between contract manufacturers, drive cross-functional agreement and recommend strategies that mitigate risk across different business functions.

Execution: Engage with cross-functional partners such as OEMs and Product Operations to deliver internal simulations that enable seamless flow across EOL/NPI products and define launch volumes. This includes close coordination with Supply Chain Planning and the Procurement organization to provide a unified picture of iPhone supply. Successful candidates exemplify concise written and verbal communication skills.

Reporting: Develop and maintain next generation reporting tools and data streams for all factory operations, providing easy data access to enable data analyses, and publish insights generated from various metrics to executive management.

International Travel Required (up to 30%)

Minimum 3-5 years of industry experience
Bachelor's degree in Business Operations, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research or related field. Post-grad degree in engineering or economics preferred.

Supply chain planning or operations experience related to development and optimization of NPI capacity needs. Industry experience preferred.
Demonstrated experience with scenario planning and serving as business point of contact for data intensive work-streams spanning multiple cross-functional teams
Experience managing day-to-day calls and relationships with OEMs tied to supplier capabilities and recommending different sets of solutions
Self starter with strong analytical and communication skills

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