Lead, Supply Network Planner

Entegris•Round Rock, TX

1d•$107,000 - $142,500

About The Position

Entegris is seeking an experienced Lead, Supply Network Planner to lead end-to-end supply planning and strategy for the business. This role is a key point of contact for the Business Unit, connecting demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and production planning across Entegris’ global operations. The Lead, Supply Network Planner develops global stocking and planning strategies, optimizes inventory and safety stock levels, and partners with Production Planning, Operations, and other stakeholders to proactively address supply constraints. The role drives on-time shipment performance, supports S&OP and S&OE decision-making, and serves as a subject matter expert for SAP, MRP, demand planning, production planning, and distribution processes. This role offers an opportunity for an experienced supply chain professional to influence global planning strategy and improve supply chain performance. Success requires strong supply planning expertise, analytical judgment, SAP knowledge, cross-functional leadership, and effective collaboration across global teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree, preferably with an emphasis in Operations or Supply Chain Management, or equivalent.
Six to eight or more years of inventory planning and control, production planning, and scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment with a distribution planning model.
Experience working in a complex, cross-functional, and matrixed environment.
Knowledge and hands-on experience with MRP and/or SAP ERP systems, particularly inventory control, materials requirements planning, distribution planning, item master settings, demand planning, and production planning, including capacity planning.
Experience executing the S&OP process.
Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency and ability to analyze supply-versus-demand, capacity, and inventory data and turn it into conclusions and targeted action.
Effective problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to develop solutions for complex supply chain models, problems, and characteristics.
Ability to build influence, roll out best practices, and challenge decisions when beneficial to the organization and risk mitigation.
Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all organizational levels.
Excellent decision-making ability and confidence in implementing decisions.
Proven record of success in a dynamic, customer-focused environment.

Nice To Haves

APICS certification (CPIM or CIRM) is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as the Business Unit’s single point of contact for end-to-end supply chain strategy.
Establish global stocking and planning strategies for MTS, ATO, and BTO SKUs, optimizing inventory while maintaining required service levels within operational constraints.
Collaborate with MRP controllers to ensure MRP settings align with stocking and planning strategy.
Manage divisional rough-cut capacity planning with Production Planning and Operations, drive mitigation of supply constraints, and incorporate constraints into the Consensus Constrained Demand Plan (CCDP) as part of monthly S&OP.
Collaborate with Business Unit stakeholders on global supply-and-demand and finished-goods allocation decisions through S&OP and S&OE.
Optimize global inventory levels, establish inputs for the safety stock algorithm, meet days-on-hand and overall inventory goals, and mitigate excess, obsolete, and MRB inventory risks.
Own On-Time Shipment (OTS) performance and coordinate improvement initiatives across global functions.
Serve as the subject matter expert for end-to-end supply chain processes in SAP, including IBP forecasting and demand planning, and ECC 6.0 purchasing, production planning and scheduling, and distribution planning.
Train new Co-Ops, ELDPs, and new hires in Supply Network Planning roles.
Provide Supply Network Planning subject matter expertise to the Supply Chain Leader.
Serve as the manager’s delegate when the manager is out of office.
Supervise the daily activities of current Co-Ops.
Interact as needed with the Asia team and plants, and define schedules that are fair to global participants.