Manager IV, Materials Management, ETCH/SRP, Global Supply Chain

Applied Materials • Austin, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions, designing, building, and servicing cutting-edge equipment for manufacturing display and semiconductor chips. The company is a foundation of the global electronics industry, enabling technologies like AI and IoT. They offer a supportive work culture that encourages learning, development, and career growth, empowering their team to innovate and push boundaries. Applied Materials is committed to providing programs and support for the health and wellbeing of its employees, fostering personal and professional growth.

Requirements

• Demonstrates in-depth understanding of concepts, theories and principles in own job family and basic knowledge of other related job families
• Applies understanding of the industry and how own area contributes to the achievement of objectives
• Manages a generally homogeneous team; adapts plans and priorities to meet service and/or operational challenges
• Identifies and resolves technical, operational and organizational problems
• Impacts the level of service and the team’s ability to meet quality, volume, and timeliness objectives
• Guided by policies and resource requirements within business unit, department or sub-function
• Guides, influences and persuades others internally in related areas or externally
• Understanding of Applied Materials global Standards of Business Conduct and compliance with these standards at all times
• Demonstrating the highest level of ethical conduct reflecting Applied Materials' core values

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and manage cross-functional, fully integrated planning process that incorporates make versus buy, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory, material and associated cost elements.
• Performs analysis of customer demand, sales forecasts and historical material usage to develop and execute build to order and build to forecast plans.
• Coordinate with cross-functional business teams to develop best cost strategy for production planning to support customer demand.
• Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control.
• Establishes and manages production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules.
• Responsible for accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing, in conjunction with Finance, and inventory control system, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies in the future.
• Develop and execute a sourcing strategy to meet the company's business growth and sourcing requirements.
• Identify, develop, and manage effective relationship with existing and potential suppliers of goods and services to meet the established cost, quality and delivery targets.
• Establish, implement, and manage system to evaluate, monitor and report supplier scorecard performance.
• Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, machining, and assembly operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedule to proactively identify and address any issues.
• Represents materials organization on corporate materials task force teams.
• Manages department budget, associated costs and resources.
• OTD / MRP Avail% management for upto 10 suppliers / commodities (ESCs, Coated Parts, Adv Materials, Complex BTP (Ch Body/SFV), $600M - $700M Sym3 Product Management (XG3/XA3) + Mesa (XG2) along with Heat Maps risk assessment for ramp readiness & S&OP representation
• Yttria POC / SAM Strategic alignment / Execution and SME managing all Yttria commodity based supply chain.
• SQE Engagement and solving High Value Critical Problems, Voice of HVM in key SC Disruptions / BU Voice of the suppliers assigned.
• Knowhow of Inflow/Outflow Meetings (Financial Exposure / DIO). MCOS Project ownership for Sym3 /Mesa along with managing appropriate inventory levels during ramp up / ramp down.
• Manage direct report of approx 7-8 individuals under this role.
• Strategic and Supply continuity Initiatives: Resiliency / Regional Dependency) + BU Qual engagement for appropriate transition, and supply continuity and SPOF risk mitigations.
• Develop Familiarity with all Products within Etch/SRP, from supply chain side.
• Obsolescence Risk Management / Supply continuity Planning S&OP Related Scaling Initiatives (Capacity Readiness and Capacity management of key).
• Subject matter expert with Build Plan Churn supply chain risk assessment.
• Leadtime mitigation Initiatives (Safety Stock and Advanced Purchasing Program implementation / Strategic buy database Maintenance / Inventory management and / E&Z mitigations)
• Responsible and drive MCOS savings initiatives, to achieve AOP on an annual spend of $2B.

Benefits

• supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career
• empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company
• programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth
• care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go
• comprehensive benefits package
• participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees