Business Planner

Overview

Would you like to create the plan that impacts the operation of ASML factories and our customers worldwide, as well as more than 100 supply chains? If you enjoy solving complex planning puzzles and managing diverse and senior stakeholders, this opportunity in the ASML Planning & Delivery department may be for you.

• As a Business Planner, set the plan for materials supplied by external parties and internal factories to enable the supply chain to deliver while balancing availability and inventory in line with business objectives. Act as the orchestrator of the ASML supply chain to ensure material availability for factories and customers. Clarify demand dynamics with supplying parties and support counterparts to meet ASML growth.
• Secure material availability for factory outputs and service events at customers:
  • Provide a stable and reliable plan to suppliers and module factories
  • Create Demand & Supply (D&S) overviews for materials (0-24 month horizon)
  • Drive D&S gap closure actions and monitor plan execution on a weekly basis
  • Drive decision-making on investment scenarios for capacity increases (1-3 year horizon)
• Manage inventory levels to reduce risk of excess and obsolescence (E&O):
  • Decide on buffer strategies
  • Make inventory projections and E&O risk assessments
  • Actively resolve inefficient and over-planned inventory risks
• Oversee planning inputs:
  • Optimize planning parameters
  • Decide on and implement the best planning policy (eg manual planning versus MRP)
  • Improve planning policies and methodologies (eg new demand leveling method)
• Drive continuous improvement
• Collaborate closely with demand planning, supplier-facing departments, product lifecycle management and production planning to reach agreement on the supply plan and D&S gap closure actions

• Bachelor's degree required;
  Master’s degree preferred (e.g., Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering or Business Administration).
• 5+ years of experience in demand planning or managing demand-supply processes
• Experience with S&OP as well as Master Production Schedule or Production Planning
• Relevant experience with SAP software solutions

Working at the cutting edge of technology, you’ll face new challenges and problems to solve as part of a collaborative, dynamic environment. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to tackle tasks and solve problems. To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

• Ability to be flexible with changing requirements
• Ability to translate and connect tactical and strategic decisions
• Capable of building strong stakeholder relationships
• Presentation skills, translating complexity into an understandable storyline
• Proactive attitude, eager to learn
• Drive for continuous improvement of processes
• Professional communication in English, both verbal and written

Planning and Delivery (P&D) combines all planning activities across ASML, bringing demand and supply perspectives closer together. P&D collaborates closely with business lines and sectors to connect requirements and priorities into an integrated business plan while remaining clear on bottlenecks and real constraints, so we can stretch them to meet opportunities without becoming unrealistic. This allows P&D to be the unbiased, trusted partner that helps ASML stay ambitious and realistic in its business planning and capacity, increasing our combined solution power to drive improvements.

The P&D organization focuses on four key activities:

• Planning, planning strategy and improvement
• Integral demand and supply (0-3 year horizon)
• Capacity preparation planning (>3 year horizon)
• Delivery: freight, customs and warehousing

There is potential for exposure to strong magnetic fields, high voltage and currents.

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

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