[Hiring] Director, Growth Lead @Sensata Technologies

Role Description

The Director, Growth Lead is responsible for driving long-term, sustainable growth through new customers, new products, and new business development opportunities. This role leads the Application Engineering organization and owns the Europe Auto Innovation Framework, ensuring strong alignment across Engineering, Business Development, and the Product organization.

The Director, Growth Lead acts as a strategic integrator, sharing deep market, customer, and application insights with the Product organization to enable the translation of those insights into product concepts, business cases, and roadmap inputs. A core element of the role is building, maintaining, and strengthening trusted relationships with both existing and new strategic customers, recognizing that strong customer engagement is essential for sustainable growth and innovation.

Qualifications

• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelor's degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Ability to lead, coach, and develop team members.
• Holds self and others accountable to achieving goals and standards.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment to handle multiple competing tasks and demands.
• Strong communication skills; oral, written and presentation.
• Strong organization, planning and time management skills to achieve results.
• Strong personal and professional ethical values and integrity.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel).
• Strong interpersonal & collaboration skills to work effectively with all levels of the organization including suppliers and/or external customers.

Requirements

• Direct cross-functional teams, and propose and manage timely analyses with predetermined milestones.
• Oversee the strategic direction of merger and acquisitions activities together with and in support of Sensata’s business unit’s strategies.
• Direct strategic insights and identify new growth areas for Sensata.
• Oversee the pipeline of new growth opportunities aligned with these trends and markets, both with organic investments and through M&A/Partnerships.
• Oversee multiple strategic initiatives, and be expected to thoroughly detail all problems.
• Direct presentations and recommendations that will enable the executive management team to make critical go/no go decisions.
• Directs and oversees responsibilities of team to ensure priorities and deliverables are met.

Benefits

• Collaborating at Sensata means working with some of the world’s most talented people in an enriching environment that is constantly pushing towards the next best thing.
• Employees work across functions, countries and cultures gaining new perspectives through mutual respect and open communication.
• As OneSensata, we are working together to make things work together.