Director of Planning

Location: Golden Colorado, Hillsboro Oregon, Worcester Massachusetts, Oak Ridge Tennessee

Job : 1526

My Client is seeking a Director, Semiconductor Planning to drive business performance across the Semiconductor segment by developing and executing plans in production, capacity, materials, inventory, and customer supply commitments. This role will help the Semiconductor business make better decisions earlier, improve revenue fulfillment and customer service, increase visibility to supply constraints, and build a more resilient planning organization that effectively supports rapid business growth.

This role is responsible for the mid-term Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) process for the Semiconductor business segment and for near-term planning leadership across U.S. and Korean Semiconductor business segment plants.

• Lead the Semiconductor planning organization across all US and Korean plants for near-term planning and business segment-wide for mid-term planning.
• Foster a team culture based on accountability, structured problem solving, data-driven decisions, continuous improvement, automation, and strong partnership with manufacturing and business stakeholders. Enable a team to support Semiconductor business growth, higher planning-system capability, stronger SiOP execution, and more resilient day-to-day operations.

• Provide leadership and ensure effective execution at each plant via plant planning managers and planning teams responsible for production planning, master scheduling, order promising, short-horizon capacity management, material planning, and customer delivery execution.
• Work with plant planning managers to ensure plant manufacturing performance, constraints and recovery plans are accurately represented in planning processes and communicated to business leadership.
• Establish common planning standards, routines, metrics, escalation processes, and performance expectations across the U.S. and Korea Semiconductor planning teams.
• Ensure the Key Customer Supply Manager is closely aligned with the plant planning groups to manage key customer escalations, including issue resolution facilitation, supply plan reporting, communication cadence and support.

• Own the mid-term (12+ months) SiOP planning processes for the Semiconductor business segment, including capacity planning, inventory planning, material planning, and constrained forecast creation.
• Work with the CTJ Planning Director to incorporate Japan plant supply capabilities, constraints, inventory plans, capacity assumptions, and planning transformation status into the Semiconductor segment SiOP process.
• Translate demand forecasts, customer requirements, product-line priorities, and commercial inputs into supply plans, capacity requirements, inventory implications, and recommended operating actions. Develop options to mitigate constraints leading to negative customer, revenue, inventory, or cost impacts.
• Lead the development and increased use of mid-term capacity models and planning tools in partnership with manufacturing, engineering, IT, finance, and corporate planning resources.
• Partner with operations, product management, commercial, and finance to align supply plans with product-line strategy, customer priorities, new product launches, demand changes, inventory, capacity utilization, and cost performance.

• Develop and execute inventory strategies to support customer service, revenue fulfillment, operational efficiency, and corporate working-capital objectives.
• Successfully manage customer consignment processes to meet customer expectations while managing Coors Tek cost, control, and effectiveness.
• Support inter-site planning decisions and coordination across multiple manufacturing sites, including Coors Tek plants outside the Semiconductor segment.
• Ensure accurate and timely material requirement plans are created. Partner with procurement and internal powder manufacturing planning teams to ensure relevant constraints and supply chain strategies are incorporated.

• Utilize planning systems (SAP, QAD ERP, SAP IBP) to ensure effective planning processes. Champion and implement continuous process improvements and system enhancements.
• Ensure that planning master data, planning…