Vice President, Material and Capacity Planning

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It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing! At Lumentum, we are illuminating the networks of tomorrow with breakthrough optical and photonic technologies that power innovation across AI, cloud, telecommunications, industrial, and sensing applications. As AI accelerates the global demand for bandwidth and energy efficiency, we deliver the building blocks—such as ultra-high-speed transceivers (800G, 1.6T) and Optical Circuit Switches (OCS)—that keep data moving reliably, efficiently, and at massive scale.

Headquartered in San Jose, California, we operate worldwide through an extensive network of R&D, manufacturing, and sales locations, including advanced production facilities in Thailand, Taiwan, and the United States. We are building a team of passionate innovators whose drive to collaborate, create, and connect the world fuels everything we do.

The Vice President of Material and Capacity Planning holds ultimate accountability for the architectural design, global coordination, and optimization of Lumentum’s end-to-end material flows and long-range capacity strategies. Acting as a pivotal operational bridge, this leader translates volatile cloud/hyperscaler market forecasts into unified, actionable global supply strategies that support corporate revenue and margin targets.

This is a macro-governance and corporate coordination role focused on balancing front-end Wafer Fabrication (InP/VCSEL) and back-end Module Factory resources on a multi-continent scale.

• Strategic Boundaries: Day-to-day site-level execution, shop-floor scheduling, and local factory/fab management are handled locally and are out of scope for this role.
• Matrix Synergy: This executive will operate as a principal strategic peer to local site leaders and key corporate counterparts—the VP of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and the SVP of Procurement and Logistics —integrating cross-functional inputs to steer capital deployment, minimize balance-sheet liabilities, and guarantee global delivery capability.

• Front-End to Back-End Integration: Formulate the centralized scheduling models that link front-end wafer fabrication outputs (e.g., San Jose clean rooms or wafer banks) to back-end assembly, test, and packaging schedules in regional hubs (e.g., Thailand and Taiwan).
• Global Component Visibility & Multi-Node Tracking: Build corporate governance frameworks using advanced planning systems to track multi-million dollar pools of critical materials (e.g., Indium Phosphide substrates, specialized laser diodes, optics, and high-speed ICs) as they move through various international manufacturing nodes.
• Global Inventory Pool Management: Establish safety-stock parameters, minimum/maximum levels, and multi-location inventory buffers to prevent critical component line-downs while simultaneously avoiding global Excess & Obsolete (E&O) margin erosion.
• Engineering Change & NPI Coordination: Lead global alignment for New Product Introduction (NPI) material pipelines, ensuring phased ramp-ups of next-generation transceivers (800G/1.6T) synchronize seamlessly with legacy product phase-outs without causing stranded global component liabilities.

• Global Constrained Capacity Modeling: Map, aggregate, and continuously audit the macro-capacity matrices of all internal clean rooms, assembly floors, and critical automated test fixtures worldwide.
• Cross-Site Workload Balancing: Orchestrate global product routing allocations, directing operational workloads across regional manufacturing sites to optimize overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), absorb regional capacity shocks, and manage local labor scaling.
• Long-Range Cap Ex Planning & Validation: Synthesize global factory…