Demand Management Program Management

Senior NPI Demand Planner

Location:

Santa Clara, CA
Salary: $ - $

• Establish measurements for new demand planning processes and collaborate cross‑functionally for process improvement.
• Perform multi‑level BOM assessments against engineering and NPI program requirements, evaluate material availability, and lead times to determine initial commit dates.
• Explode engineering BOMs in SAP to generate component‑level requirements; categorize component risk by type to calibrate planning strategy.
• Determine critical‑path demand signals in Expense vs. MRP.
• Manage BOM change orders and pull‑in / push‑out activities, including capacity constraint analysis.
• Utilize Kinaxis Rapid Response software for scenario planning.
• Provide commit dates to stakeholders.
• Convert BOM explosions into formal demand by creating and managing SAP material reservations or Planning BOMs as the authoritative demand driver for NPI materials.
• Generate planned orders, purchase requisitions, and work with PC planning to create production orders aligned to business‑unit requirements.
• Maintain reservations through the program lifecycle and align material slots with factory capacity across first‑article, prototype, pilot, and pre‑production phases.
• Run and analyze weekly shortage reports in SAP (MD04, availability check, exception messages) to identify at‑risk components.
• Determine the material critical path and drive escalation with commodity buyers.
• Maintain a shortage risk register and produce delivery commit assessments for each NPI demand event.
• Serve as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for assigned Business Units from BOM release through material kit delivery.
• Provide weekly materials health updates covering availability, recovery plans, commit dates, and schedule risk.
• Develop component‑level commit dates with buyers and suppliers; represent materials planning in program core team meetings and milestone reviews.
• Track actual vs. planned NPI materials spend at program and component levels and deliver variance analysis to BU finance and program managers.
• Monitor open PO commitments against approved budgets and flag overruns.
• Support budget planning via bottom‑up BOM cost roll‑ups and ensure POs are coded to NPI cost centers and WBS elements.
• Assess the materials impact of Engineering Change Orders and Requests (ECO/ECR), including cut‑in effectiveness, inventory disposition, and procurement action.
• Maintain a change log of BOM revisions and required SAP material master updates.
• Collaborate with ECO change analysts and engineering to minimize excess and obsolescence (E&O) and keep material master records aligned to the active BOM revision.
• Identify gaps in NPI demand planning workflows and develop improvements to reduce time‑to‑demand‑signal and raise BOM readiness at program kickoff.
• Build standard shortage reporting cadences, escalation playbooks, and BOM readiness checklists.
• Contribute to NPI planning metrics including BOM readiness rate, CTB attainment, shortage closure cycle time, and E&O exposure.

• Expert knowledge of multi‑level BOM structures, SAP MRP, material reservations, and NPI materials planning.
• Understanding of NPI supply chain best practices and how materials planning integrates with engineering, procurement, finance, and manufacturing.
• Ability to act as a resource for less‑experienced planners and to lead small process‑improvement projects.
• Strong problem‑solving skills, ability to determine critical paths, and build plans with incomplete BOMs.
• Effective interpersonal skills, able to explain shortage risk, commit dates, and budget status to program managers and senior leadership.
• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or Operations.
• Experience:
  
  5+ Years with NPI/pilot manufacturing focus.
• Full time, Assignee/Regular employee;
  Travel:
  Yes, 10% of the time;
  Relocation Eligible:
  No.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.