Program Manager, Materials Planning

Applied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display in the world. The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry.

The work we do together advances the world’s technology.

Applied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display in the world. The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry.

The work we do together advances the world’s technology.

Salary: $88,000.00 - $

Location:

Austin,TX

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Austin, TX | Full time | Project/Program Management

Applied Materials is looking for a Program Manager, Materials Planning to own material planning for products and parts with complex, changing, and customer specific demand. This is the work of making sure the right parts exist in the right quantity at the right time, in situations where the standard planning process does not give you the answer.

You will work across Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Operations, and Customer Support to validate demand, spot risk early, and drive the decisions that keep customers supported. It is a role for someone who is comfortable with incomplete information, goes and finds what they need, and moves without waiting to be told.

This is an individual contributor role with leadership responsibility across a small working group. It does not include direct people management.

• Own material planning activities so parts availability stays aligned to customer demand.
• Validate demand changes with customers and business teams, and drive forecast updates when the signal is real.
• Balance supply, demand, inventory levels, and customer commitments, and adjust planning assumptions as conditions change.

• Work with large, complex datasets to surface demand shifts, planning risks, and inventory exposure before they become problems.
• Turn planning and operational data into recommendations that others can act on.
• Monitor inventory, demand signals, and supply to identify shortages, excess, and gaps early.

• Lead resolution of planning exceptions, where the situation is unique and the standard process does not apply.
• Run root cause investigations and put corrective and preventive actions in place.
• Manage competing priorities, make judgment calls with the data available, and elevate when escalation is genuinely warranted.

• Drive parts…