Director, AI & Digital Transformation

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

Define and maintain all aspects of the company’s technology strategy for a defined sector. Provides oversight and direction for all related design activity. Responsible for technical evaluation of technologies as part of strategy formulation and in support of business development initiatives. Develops a portfolio of solutions for strategic market applications. Represents the technical face of Jabil to the global sector. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ·         Research, evaluate and maintain a catalogue of sector related technologies. ·         Identify opportunities and technologies that leverage Jabil’s capabilities. ·         Define technology-based solutions for target markets/applications. ·         Assess gaps in capabilities from a technical perspective and identify resource requirements. ·         Formalize strategy and present a quarterly update to the organization. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES ·         Evaluate technologies of prospective customers for Jabil fit. ·         Lead due diligence team for customer/technology acquisition. ·         Identify and engage potential technology/business partners. ·         Leverage and expand global water industries based network on behalf of Jabil SERVICE OFFERING ·         Develop a portfolio of application solutions to supplement customer technologies ·         Establish and manage a design for X service offering to the customer community ·         Formulate an offering for federal government and defense bid opportunities DESIGN OVERSIGHT ·         Define and recruit required resources to support the product development cycle. ·         Drives lowest cost solutions through phases of development cycle: concept, functional features, system architecture, components, and design process. ·         Enables standardization of components and sub-assemblies across customer’s systems ·         Provides technical expertise and guidance to engineering staff ·         Responsible for developing and documenting high level system architectures and designs ·         Assures product reliability through implementation of appropriate design/engineering disciplines(DFSS) ·         Establish design standards applicable to the specific target industry (i.e. ANSI, ASME, AWWA, NSF etc.) OPERATIONS SUPPORT ·         Establish quality control standards applicable to the target industry (i.e. ISO, U.L.) ·         Supports supply chain development activities ·         Provides technical expertise and guidance to workcell members and operational team ·         Advises on all aspects of operational strategy leveraging experience and knowledge base ·         Comply and follow all procedures within the company security policy. ·         May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned. JOB QUALIFICATIONS KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS ·         Must be able to demonstrate expertise in a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. ·         Must have extensive experience in driving solutions in a global business environment related to the specific sector of focus. ·         A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. ·         Proficiency in use of