Strategy Manager Products and Technology

Be part of progress: Join ASML’s Strategy & ESG Office (SEO)

Introduction to the job

Within ASML, the Strategy & ESG Office (SEO) advises, aligns, and facilitates the Board of Management and Core Executive Team to define and execute ASML's strategy by providing strategic insights and value creation opportunities to help shape ASML's future. The focus of Products and Technology (PT) is to monitor and investigate emerging technologies and trends in ASML’s core and adjacent markets.

As Strategy Manager, you will work on a wide variety of strategic topics and drive cross-company strategic initiatives. Topics could range from expansion and new market strategies to sustainability, and from developing new business models or client propositions to industrial transformation and concrete business development. Reporting to the PT Group Lead, your stakeholders will include other PT team members, Research & Technology, Business Line Strategy Teams, Corporate Strategy, and Corporate Marketing. The broad set of priorities make the role of the Strategy Manager diverse and challenging, making it a perfect landing spot for candidates with a background in strategy consultancy or business development that have both a technical and commercial background.

Role and responsibilities

• Support development of ASML’s technology strategy and expansion rationale.
• Lead and support strategic business-related deep-dive projects on specific topics.
• Develop and synthesize insight on market evolution (e.g., technology trends, customer roadmaps, key players) to identify key pockets of value leverage and potential synergies for ASML.
• Stay abreast of the latest developments through regular attendance of relevant events and conferences.
• Stimulate and integrate activities across the wider ASML organization.
• Support ASML board of management with refinement of ASML corporate strategic expansion logic through continued scouting and investigation of potential value creation opportunities.

Education and experience

• 6+ years of working experience in semiconductor and/or high tech industry related role, with 2+ years business experience (e.g. consultancy, business development or corporate strategy) in semiconductor equipment or semiconductor foundry services.
• Master level qualification in technical field and/or business.
• Experience in a strategic role.
• Exposure to M&A, technology/IP acquisition and/or innovation portfolio management.
• Creating & presenting business plans and/or board-level strategic communication.

Skills

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems. To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

• Strong on both technical and business content, with ability and willingness to go both deep into detailed content as well as put it in perspective of an overall strategic rationale.
• Effective synthesis, presentation, communication and story lining skills, with confidence to develop into an influential leader in the subject space.
• Strong in strategic thinking.
• Financially literate with ability to generate financial forecasts for business case proposals.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-sector stakeholders across the organization.
• Excellent influencing skills without hierarchical power.

Other information

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

ASML is a leading supplier of lithography equipment, used by the world’s top chipmakers to print microchips that are increasingly powerful, fast and energy efficient. Working at ASML is inspiring, no matter what field you're in. That’s because we push the boundaries of technology: if it’s moving the world forward, chances are, we’re behind it. In fact, we’re probably a part of the electronic device you’re using right now. We’re a global team of more than 32,000 people from 122 different nationalities and counting. Headquartered in Europe’s top tech hub, the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands, our operations are spread across Europe, Asia and the US.