Senior Demand Planner – Packaging

Intel • Hillsboro, CA

16d • Hybrid

About The Position

Our Foundry Sales Operations team owns the end-to-end support structure from sales enablement to life-cycle management. Our mission is to provide foundry services through best-in-class operations that customers can trust. Foundry Sales Operations is seeking an experienced, highly skilled Senior Demand Planner to join our team and serve as a key connector between sales forecasts, supply availability, and capacity. This role will be instrumental in driving our Sales and Operations Planning (SnOP) and Long-Range Planning process, ensuring that demand signals are accurately translated into supply chain readiness and capacity. The successful candidate will combine strong analytical expertise with business acumen to deliver insights that enable the organization to scale effectively and will be the interface for all things packaging products for Foundry Services customers. Through designing and executing analytics, you’ll provide analytical support to the sales operation process; this includes, but not limited to: Drive set-up for new products to enable forecasting in Compass and BY CDP through downstream systems. Partner with Packaging and Test Business Group to gather product attributes needed for product set-up. Lead packaging demand cycle requirements and manage production demand using BY CDP tool, and Engineering demand using SAP IBP tool. Collaborate with Business Development team and Package/Test Business Group to align on demand forecast for Long Range Planning Funded, Execute, and Growth scenarios. Understand exceptions and strategic propositions. Collaborate with Customer Engineering and Business Development on milestones for new products, Eng’g/NPI build timeframes, HVM ramp, and execution. Maintain product roadmap for monthly S&OP and report demand cycle over cycle changes. Identify demand risks, opportunities, and trends to support proactive decision making. Partner with supply chain integration and procurement teams to ensure material, service, and vendor readiness aligns with projected demand. Partner with Customer Business Analyst within Foundry Sales Operations in getting latest customer rolling forecast, and bailed materials visibility. Monitor inventory positions, lead times to mitigate shortages or excess. Track accuracy, bias and lags in forecasts using BY CDP dashboards and KPIs. Collaborate with operations and supply chain teams to align capacity planning with demand forecasts, determine capacity allocation, and customer inventory to maximize revenue through supply commitments. The Ideal Candidate Possesses: Understanding of supply management, demand forecasting, market analysis, or operations. Strong analytical and data management skills and skills to work through complex business scenarios to influence decision making. The skills to deal with highly ambiguous and changing business processes and customer requirements. Skills to synthesize complex data into a clear actionable conclusion. Innovation and self-directed. Core Competencies Exceptional problem solving and data interpretation skills. Strong communication and storytelling abilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Finance or in a related field of study.
• 7+ years of experience working in Semiconductor, or Manufacturing.
• 7+ years of experience in demand planning, supply chain analytics, or capacity planning roles.
• Understanding of supply management, demand forecasting, market analysis, or operations.
• Strong analytical and data management skills and skills to work through complex business scenarios to influence decision making.
• The skills to deal with highly ambiguous and changing business processes and customer requirements.
• Skills to synthesize complex data into a clear actionable conclusion.
• Innovation and self-directed.
• Exceptional problem solving and data interpretation skills.
• Strong communication and storytelling abilities.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or an advanced degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Finance or in a related field of study.
• Experience with Foundry.
• Experience in semiconductor assembly and packaging operations, FPGA, and industry best practices.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor assembly & packaging operations, FPGA, and industry best practices.
• Experience with SnOP processes, supply chain planning systems (Blue Yonder, OneMPS, COMPASS).
• Experience with advanced Excel (i.e. as pivot tables and complex formulas etc.).
• Experience with statistical analysis and forecasting techniques.

Responsibilities

• Drive set-up for new products to enable forecasting in Compass and BY CDP through downstream systems.
• Partner with Packaging and Test Business Group to gather product attributes needed for product set-up.
• Lead packaging demand cycle requirements and manage production demand using BY CDP tool, and Engineering demand using SAP IBP tool.
• Collaborate with Business Development team and Package/Test Business Group to align on demand forecast for Long Range Planning Funded, Execute, and Growth scenarios.
• Understand exceptions and strategic propositions.
• Collaborate with Customer Engineering and Business Development on milestones for new products, Eng’g/NPI build timeframes, HVM ramp, and execution.
• Maintain product roadmap for monthly S&OP and report demand cycle over cycle changes.
• Identify demand risks, opportunities, and trends to support proactive decision making.
• Partner with supply chain integration and procurement teams to ensure material, service, and vendor readiness aligns with projected demand.
• Partner with Customer Business Analyst within Foundry Sales Operations in getting latest customer rolling forecast, and bailed materials visibility.
• Monitor inventory positions, lead times to mitigate shortages or excess.
• Track accuracy, bias and lags in forecasts using BY CDP dashboards and KPIs.
• Collaborate with operations and supply chain teams to align capacity planning with demand forecasts, determine capacity allocation, and customer inventory to maximize revenue through supply commitments.

Benefits

• We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation.
• Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here: https://intel.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/page/1025c144664a100150b4b1665c750003

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees