Director, Planning & Logistics

Coherent • Sherman, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This role provides overall leadership for warehouse, logistics, receiving, shipping, material handling, and inventory control activities supporting manufacturing operations. It ensures materials are received, stored, controlled, and delivered in accordance with production requirements and established quality and control standards. The position also ensures finished goods are appropriately controlled, staged, packaged, and shipped in support of customer requirements and shipment schedules. It owns inventory-control processes supporting inventory accuracy, traceability, accountability, cycle counting, reconciliation, and root-cause analysis. The role ensures warehouse and logistics operations support a 24/7 manufacturing environment and maintain appropriate service levels across shifts. It drives improvement in inventory accuracy, material availability, receiving and shipping performance, warehouse productivity, and material flow. The role also provides the supply, capacity, inventory, and constraint inputs required for an effective S&OP process. It partners with Demand Management and business stakeholders to translate demand into constrained supply scenarios and recommendations. The role supports executive decision-making when demand exceeds available capacity or material supply, including prioritization and trade-off analysis. It helps ensure the operational plan is aligned with business priorities and provides an appropriate foundation for the financial plan. The position serves as a functional planning leader for the development and implementation of standardized planning methods, assumptions, governance, and performance measures. It participates 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. It translates business planning needs into functional requirements and helps ensure system designs support intended planning processes and business outcomes. It drives reduction of spreadsheet-based planning, manual reconciliation, and disconnected planning logic through standardized processes, data, analytics, and technology. It partners with IT and business stakeholders to improve planning data quality, integration, reporting, and visibility. The role partners with Global Procurement to communicate material requirements, supply priorities, and projected constraints and to incorporate supplier availability and supply risks into production and supply plans. It supports centralized visibility and allocation of constrained materials across sites, products, and business priorities within the planning process. It provides forward-looking material requirements and scenario information to support supply-risk mitigation, including rapid response to changing supplier availability and qualification status. It ensures material constraints and their potential impact on customer commitments, production plans, and business objectives are visible and escalated appropriately. The role establishes and monitors planning, logistics, warehouse, inventory, and service KPIs that measure effectiveness, execution, and business performance. It uses data and analytics to identify supply risk, capacity constraints, inventory issues, productivity opportunities, and root causes of performance gaps. It develops actionable reporting and operating reviews that support timely decisions and accountability. It leads continuous improvement initiatives that reduce cost, improve lead time and service, increase supply flexibility, and strengthen process discipline. The role partners effectively with Manufacturing and Site Operations, Program Management, Demand Management, Global Procurement, Finance, Engineering, Quality, IT, Commercial organizations, and business leadership. It ensures planning, logistics, and inventory priorities are aligned with customer commitments, NPI and production-ramp requirements, and business objectives. It communicates significant supply, inventory, capacity, and execution risks clearly to leadership and drives timely decisions and corrective actions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain planning, production planning, master scheduling, logistics, inventory management, or related manufacturing functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams and cross-functional planning processes in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing changing priorities and constrained resources while maintaining customer and business focus.
• Proven success in leading and developing people and building high-performing teams.
• Strong understanding of capacity planning, material planning, inventory management, production scheduling, warehouse operations, and execution alignment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, organizational, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to influence across organizational boundaries and lead through ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Experience with ERP/MRP, Advanced Planning Systems, or comparable supply chain planning technologies; Oracle experience preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and analytics/reporting tools such as Excel, Power BI, SQL, or comparable technologies preferred.
• Ability to communicate effectively with operational teams, functional leaders, customers, and executive leadership.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required by the business.

Nice To Haves

• Semiconductor, photonics, electronics, or other high-technology manufacturing experience preferred.
• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 planning logic through standardized processes, data, analytics, and technology.
• Partner with IT and business stakeholders to improve planning data quality, integration, reporting, and visibility.
• Partner with Global Procurement, a separate corporate team, to communicate material requirements, supply priorities, and projected constraints and to incorporate supplier availability and supply risks into production and supply plans.
• Support centralized visibility and allocation of constrained materials across sites, products, and business priorities within the planning process.
• Provide forward-looking material requirements and scenario information to support supply-risk mitigation, including rapid response to changing supplier availability and qualification status.
• Ensure material constraints and their potential impact on customer commitments, production plans, and business objectives are visible and escalated appropriately.
• Establish and monitor planning, logistics, warehouse, inventory, and service KPIs that measure effectiveness, execution, and business performance.
• Use data and analytics to identify supply risk, capacity constraints, inventory issues, productivity opportunities, and root causes of performance gaps.
• Develop actionable reporting and operating reviews that support timely decisions and accountability.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that reduce cost, improve lead time and service, increase supply flexibility, and strengthen process discipline.
• Partner effectively with Manufacturing and Site Operations, Program Management, Demand Management, Global Procurement, Finance, Engineering, Quality, IT, Commercial organizations, and business leadership.
• Ensure planning, logistics, and inventory priorities are aligned with customer commitments, NPI and production-ramp requirements, and business objectives.
• Communicate significant supply, inventory, capacity, and execution risks clearly to leadership and drive timely decisions and corrective actions.

Benefits

• Coherent Corp. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director