Meet Divya, our Smart Audio Project Manager - Flex leadership
Channel: Flex
Date: 2019-03-07

Inclusion, creativity, and empowerment. That's what motivates our people from all around the world to come together and transform ideas into products that change lives for the better. 

Our culture is based on three simple values: we support each other as we strive to find a better way. We move fast with discipline and purpose. And we do the right thing, always. 

Divya Veerattalingam is an example of this. She's the Project Manager, Smart Audio and started her career in fulfillment and advanced to work on our Flex Pulse supply chain solution in Chennai, India. 

The Flex Leadership Development Program has broadened experience in business development, and design and engineering. 

Learn more at https://flex.com/careers.


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My name is Divya Veerattalingam. 

At Flex I am a project manager for the audio business. 

I've been with Flex since 2013.

I started my career as a team leader in procurement at GBS Chennai. 

After doing procurement activities for about two years, working for sites in Poland and Malaysia, I thought that I was ready to do something more and I really wanted to expand my scope, and I saw the opportunity to spearhead flex pulse deployment in India and also lead the pulse center operations in Chennai, and I jumped right in. 

In 2017, I joined flex leadership development program and it's been an amazing journey since then.

The flex leadership development program is a rotation program that focuses on recruiting top talents across flex globally with a mission to develop them into future leaders.

This is a really exciting program because you get to work on several high-impact projects over a period of 18 months.

We all know flex has different segments, function and a global footprint.

Being in this program I had the opportunity to work in different areas of several businesses.

Imagine over the past two years I worked in business development, design and engineering, global operations and program management, and also in countries like US, Mexico and Malaysia.

For me working at Flex has been a super and really exciting journey because it's a really dynamic
environment and then there are like so many different opportunities, you get exposure to these amazing leaders and great mentors, so I really like working in this company.

My advice to people starting off their career is not to just sit there and wait for a miracle to happen.

I also strongly believe that you don't have to be at a certain grade or a seniority level to provide solution and demonstrate leadership.

All you have to do is just be curious, keep learning, be really passionate about everything that you do
and take risks.

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