Business Unit Manager

Much of the work is early-stage R&D: advanced boards, including server platforms years from market, built in small, high-value runs where a single board can be worth $100, 000. Proven people leadership: you have managed a team, or worked closely with strong leaders and know what good management looks like.

Role overview
Our client is hiring a Business Unit Manager to lead our semiconductor accounts and the team of four to five people who serve them. This is a full-time, onsite role in Plano, Texas, reporting to executive leadership, with occasional travel.

About the role
The Business Unit Manager owns relationships with some of the world's leading semiconductor companies. Much of the work is early-stage R&D: advanced boards, including server platforms years from market, built in small, high-value runs where a single board can be worth $100, 000. Other programs run in mid-volume production.
The goal is to grow each account from prototype into production. That happens when customers trust engineering insight early and want to keep the work in-house. This person is part of the leadership team, not an individual contributor, and moves customer knowledge across engineering, production, planning, and procurement.
Our client is a full-turnkey electronics manufacturer with in-house electrical engineering and PCB layout.

What you'll do

• Lead a team of 4–5 program managers, coordinators, and quoting staff;set priorities, coach, and hold the team accountable for deliverables
• Own the semiconductor customer relationships, including quarterly business reviews and regular program reviews
• Grow each account from R&D and prototype work into production, finding upsell and expansion opportunities
• Stay actively engaged with customer engineers: understand technical questions, spot critical issues early, and get the right internal experts involved
• Serve on the leadership team, sharing customer knowledge and solving problems with engineering, production planning, procurement, and quality
• Manage schedules, deadlines, and bottlenecks proactively, working with internal managers to rebalance priorities
• Oversee customer order entry and exceptions in the ERP, and keep customers updated on finished-goods delivery
• Partner with planning and procurement to forecast the account pipeline
• Report program status and business results to executive management
• Build standards, templates, and processes that improve how the business unit runs

What you bring
Required

• Degree in engineering or related technical field
• 5+ years in electronics manufacturing (EMS/contract manufacturing) or a related technical industry, in program management, account management, or business unit leadership
• Experience serving semiconductor customers, or working inside a semiconductor company
• Proven people leadership: you have managed a team, or worked closely with strong leaders and know what good management looks like
• Experience at an established manufacturer with mature processes for program management, quoting, planning, and customer communication
• Enough technical depth to follow engineering discussions on PCBAs and electromechanical assemblies, and to know which questions to ask
• Strong ERP skills

Preferred

• Background in sales, account growth, or customer-facing business development
• Experience with high-mix, low-volume R&D and prototype builds as well as volume production
• PMP or similar program management certification