Director, Planning

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Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Functional & Organizational Leadership

Lead, coach, and develop the Planning, Logistics, Warehouse, and Inventory Control organizations, establishing clear roles, priorities, performance expectations, and development plans.

Build a high-performing organization with disciplined planning, strong execution, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement.

Allocate team resources to critical business priorities and ensure appropriate coverage of planning and execution activities across required operating hours.

Establish consistent processes, governance, and accountability across the functions while recognizing legitimate site-specific operational requirements.

Supply & Production Planning

Lead development and maintenance of supply and production plans based on demand, capacity, material availability, inventory targets, yields, cycle times, lead times, and other key planning parameters.

Translate demand and business priorities into feasible production plans, wafer-start requirements, build plans, and scheduling priorities, as applicable.

Establish and maintain appropriate planning horizons, planning levels, planning cadence, planning assumptions, and exception-management processes.

Identify capacity, material, and process constraints and coordinate mitigation plans with Operations, Engineering, Program Management, Demand Management, and other stakeholders.

Ensure plans are regularly reconciled to actual factory conditions and revised as demand, supply, capacity, or business priorities change.

Master Scheduling & Execution Alignment

Ensure effective translation of aggregate supply plans into detailed production schedules and execution priorities.

Partner with Manufacturing and Operations to monitor schedule adherence, WIP progression, production output, and shipment requirements.

Drive timely recovery actions when execution deviates from plan and escalate issues requiring cross-functional or leadership decisions.

Balance near-term execution requirements with longer-term capacity, inventory, and customer-service objectives.

Logistics, Warehouse & Inventory Control

Provide overall leadership for warehouse, logistics, receiving, shipping, material handling, and inventory control activities supporting manufacturing operations.

Ensure materials are received, stored, controlled, and delivered in accordance with production requirements and established quality and control standards.

Ensure finished goods are appropriately controlled, staged, packaged, and shipped in support of customer requirements and shipment schedules.

Own inventory-control processes supporting inventory accuracy, traceability, accountability, cycle counting, reconciliation, and root-cause analysis.

Ensure warehouse and logistics operations support a 24/7 manufacturing environment and maintain appropriate service levels across shifts.

Drive improvement in inventory accuracy, material availability, receiving and shipping performance, warehouse productivity, and material flow.

S&OP / Integrated Planning

Provide the supply, capacity, inventory, and constraint inputs required for an effective S&OP process.

Partner with Demand Management and business stakeholders to translate demand into constrained supply scenarios and recommendations.

Support executive decision-making when demand exceeds available capacity or material supply, including prioritization and trade-off analysis.

Help ensure the operational plan is aligned with business priorities and provides an appropriate foundation for the financial plan.

Planning Transformation & Systems

Serve as a functional planning leader for the development and implementation of standardized planning methods, assumptions, governance, and performance measures.

Participate as a key business leader in the Sherman factory Production Planning Model, Semiconductor Devices Group (SDG) Advanced Planning System, and corporate Oracle Supply Chain Planning initiatives.

Translate business planning needs into functional requirements and help ensure system designs support intended planning processes and business outcomes.

Drive reduction of spreadsheet-based planning, manual reconciliation, and disconnected pla