Senior Director, Supply Chain Management

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

4d • $211,500 - $317,300

About The Position

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.’s Global Planning organization is seeking a Senior Director, Supply Chain Management to lead Consolidated Business Planning – Demand (CBP-D). This global team translates business-unit demand into unconstrained and constrained demand plans and runs the demand side of Qualcomm’s monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) cycle. Reporting to the Vice President, Global Planning, the role owns demand governance end to end, including business-unit demand submission and consensus forecasting, constrained-supply allotment and allocation on leading-edge wafer nodes, and the Executive Demand Review and Executive S&OP forums where senior leaders make supply, capacity and revenue trade-off decisions.

The position leads a multi-level global organization of operational demand managers and analysts across the United States, Taiwan and India. It partners with Business Unit operations, Sales, Finance, Sourcing, Capacity Planning, Supply Planning, Manufacturing Operations and IT. The successful candidate will bring deep demand- and supply-planning expertise, strong financial acumen and executive presence, and will lead demand-planning transformation through advanced forecasting, planning-system automation and practical AI while maintaining disciplined monthly planning and constrained-supply decisions.

The leader sets organizational strategy, goals, KPIs, decision rights and operating standards, and is accountable for the monthly demand cycle, constrained demand planning, executive governance, allocation decisions, planning assumptions, operational demand planning, performance metrics and continuous improvement. The role also leads forecasting transformation and automation, supports demand planning for growth businesses and strategic customers, handles executive analysis and escalations, and guides cross-functional change.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Operations, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of Supply Chain, Product Planning, or related work experience.
• Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may substitute for up to two years of work experience: a Master’s degree substitutes for one year and a Doctorate for two years.
• Deep demand- and supply-planning expertise, strong financial acumen and executive presence.
• Ability to communicate complex, high-stakes information to executive audiences and large cross-functional groups, with strong negotiation and influence skills.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or MBA in Supply Chain, Business Operations, Industrial Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
• At least 15 years of semiconductor or high-technology supply chain planning experience spanning demand planning, S&OP/IBP, and supply or capacity planning; fabless and foundry experience is strongly preferred.
• At least 8 years leading multi-level organizations, including managers of managers and teams distributed across regions and time zones.
• At least 5 years in roles requiring regular engagement with executive leadership at Vice President level and above, including leading executive S&OP or demand reviews.
• Proven experience running demand planning through constrained supply, including allotment and allocation and customer and business-unit prioritization.
• Strong financial acumen, including reconciling demand to financial forecasts and budgets and quantifying the revenue and inventory impact of supply/demand decisions.
• Hands-on experience with advanced planning systems; Kinaxis Maestro/RapidResponse is preferred, as is experience with enterprise analytics platforms such as Databricks.
• Experience leading planning-system enhancements and automation.
• Experience leading forecasting transformation, including statistical or machine-learning forecasting, demand-signal design and AI-enabled planning, together with change management for adoption.
• Track record of influencing without authority across business units, Sales, Finance, Sourcing and IT, with concise executive communication and storytelling.
• ASCM/APICS certification (CPIM or CSCP) or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Consolidated Business Planning – Demand team through directors and senior managers; set direction, goals, KPIs, decision rights, backup coverage, strategic and people plans, and talent development and succession plans.
• Own the demand side of the monthly S&OP calendar, govern the Unconstrained Demand Plan (UDP) in the planning system, and publish monthly demand.
• Partner with Supply Planning, Capacity Planning and Finance during solve week to produce the Constrained Demand Plan (CDP), lead the S&OP feedback loop, and maintain CDP integrity through change governance.
• Chair the monthly Executive Demand Review and own its presentation, collateral and action tracking with the VP, Supply Chain and business-unit leaders; provide demand views for Senior Executive S&OP, business-unit S&OP reviews, weekly demand-change and supply-decision forums, and operations solve reviews.
• Lead allocation decisions for constrained leading-edge nodes, including strategic alignment, pre-allotment checks, manual allocations, and prioritization by business unit and customer in line with agreed capacity assumptions.
• Ensure major demand-planning assumption changes are modeled in scenarios, socialized with business units and executive leadership, and ratified before changing allocations; communicate impacts on revenue and customer commitments.
• Lead planners responsible for order commits and oversee order scheduling and commit performance, including limiter management, time to schedule, order-commit preservation, fiscal-close scheduling controls and end-of-quarter execution, in partnership with Sales Operations, Customer Service and IT.
• Own demand KPIs, including forecast accuracy and bias, CDP coverage of UDP, time to schedule, and on-time delivery to scheduled ship date; conduct monthly KPI and quarterly metric reviews and drive business-unit accountability.
• Lead the demand organization’s contribution to advanced forecasting transformation, including the future-state demand process, demand-signal framework, business-unit planning inputs and forecasting-tool evaluation.
• Partner with IT and planning-systems teams on automation, Kinaxis Maestro enhancements through agile program-increment planning, and scalable, governed AI use cases that reduce tactical planner workload.
• Integrate growth and acquired businesses into standard planning processes, systems and executive reviews; support strategic-customer forecasting and partner with growth-program planning leads to maintain consistent units of measure, assumptions and priorities.
• Lead executive ad hoc analyses and escalations and support governance activities such as internal audits of consolidated demand planning.
• Build long-term relationships across business-unit operations, Sales, Finance, Sourcing, Capacity Planning, Supply Planning, Master Data, Data Analytics and IT; lead partners through process and policy changes and support more integrated end-to-end planning.
• Set and achieve organizational goals, KPIs, schedules and performance standards, and operate within budget.
• Direct resolution of complex, ambiguous cross-functional business problems and shape functional strategy, long-term plans and organization-wide decisions.

Benefits

• Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
• Opportunity for annual RSU grants; employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for the annual bonus.
• Competitive benefits package designed to support employees at work, at home and at play.
• Reasonable accommodations during the application and hiring process for individuals with disabilities.

What This Job Offers

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