About the role
About The Role
The Lead Technical Program Manager, New Business Enablement & RFP serves as the operational solution architect within the Global Operations Readiness (GOR) team. Reporting into the Manager of Global Operations Readiness within the Manufacturing Business Office (MBO), this role is responsible for framing the boundary conditions that support new customer opportunities and driving the development of tailored manufacturing solutions. This role bridges commercial expansion and factory capability.
You will lead the New Business Enablement & RFP sub-function in establishing a standardized framework to ingest and evaluate complex RFPs across direct ZT hyperscale channels and Sanmina partner sales streams. Rather than evaluating requests in isolation, you will model and quantify the complete operational scope required to support incoming opportunities—defining footprint, technical capabilities, manpower, and financial terms so that the true scope of business is fully understood before commitments are made.
Working hand-in-hand with local manufacturing, test, quality, and industrial engineers and plant leadership across TX, NJ, and the Netherlands, you will establish the operational framework within which site-specific solutions are engineered. As technical leader, you will serve as the team’s technical navigator—instilling analytical rigor, guiding multi-site solution engineering, and coaching junior team members to cultivate engineering excellence.