Senior Manager, Supply Chain Data Science & AI Operationalization

Applied Materials • Santa Clara, CA

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Applied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display in the world. The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry. The work we do together advances the world’s technology.

This is a hands-on delivery leadership role. Applied Materials' Global Service Operations moves billions of dollars of parts, repairs and inventory across Procurement, Order Fulfillment and the Reverse Value Chain. The analytics that steer those decisions today are strong, and ready to be amplified with AI at scale. You will turn the function's roadmap into shipped, governed, AI-assisted tools, building where it counts, leading a small team of analysts, and holding delivery to clear cycle-time and quality standards.

First-year outcomes:

The highest-value analyses in your domain converted from one-off manual work to repeatable, governed, AI-assisted workflows.
Key tools graduated from notebooks to governed production, each with lineage, monitoring and a named owner.
Delivery consistently meeting published cycle-time and quality SLAs, with measurable reduction in turnaround.
A small analyst team leveled up, with raised standards and reduced key-person risk.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience delivering AI and analytics in a supply chain context, with measurable business results (dollars, cycle time or hours reclaimed).
• Strong builder: has taken analytics from notebooks to governed production with lineage, monitoring and clear ownership.
• Deep technical foundation: SQL, Python, Databricks / lakehouse, enterprise BI.
• Applied AI tooling: LLMs and generative AI (RAG, agentic workflows), MLflow or equivalent, AI-assisted development tools.
• Experience deploying governed services on an enterprise application / MLOps platform such as ARO (Azure Red Hat OpenShift) or equivalent (Kubernetes / OpenShift, Azure ML, cloud-native).
• People leadership: has led or mentored analysts and managed delivery against demand.
• Partners with function stakeholders to translate their decisions into analytics they act on.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced quantitative degree preferred.
• 8 to 12 years in data science / advanced analytics, including hands-on supply chain analytics and AI delivery and some team leadership.

Nice To Haves

• Semiconductor, high-tech or complex global supply chain experience (parts, repair, reverse logistics, order fulfillment).
• Domain depth in reverse value chain / repair, inventory optimization, supplier performance or on-time-delivery analytics.
• Contributed to standing up an AI / analytics center of excellence or MLOps practice.

Responsibilities

• Drive strong AI operationalization as the core of the role: embed AI, generative AI and LLM-based methods into how supply chain analytics is produced, turning manual, one-off analyses into governed, automated, always-on workflows that scale output without adding headcount.
• Lead delivery of supply chain analytics within Applied Materials' Global Service Operations (Procurement, Order Fulfillment, Reverse Value Chain and supplier operations), owning execution against the function's roadmap and delivery SLAs.
• Build and ship the repeatable, AI-assisted workflows and agents that convert recurring manual work into reusable, governed tools, hands-on where it counts.
• Take high-value tools from prototype to governed production (Databricks, BI hosting, enterprise application / MLOps hosting) with data lineage, monitoring, model lifecycle management and clear ownership.
• Establish and apply AI operationalization practices: prompt and model evaluation, human-in-the-loop controls, versioning, monitoring and governance, so AI outputs are trusted and decision-ready.
• Plans, manages and controls the activities of a team of analysts that provides business intelligence and strategic planning support for the business.
• Leads project teams to design and develop the methods, processes and systems that consolidate and analyze structured and unstructured, diverse "big data" sources; communicates insights and findings to business management to improve business processes.
• Performs and directs complex statistical and data-mining analysis; provides input on and design of data acquisition systems, data structure and database design.
• Brings expertise or identifies subject-matter experts in support of multi-functional efforts to identify, interpret and produce recommendations based on company and external data.
• Helps business groups understand their data; applies analytics to derive insights and works with the business to determine actions and KPIs for those actions.
• Selects, develops and evaluates personnel, ensuring efficient operation of the function.
• Leads or participates in project teams developing analytical models, algorithms and automated processes, applying SQL and Python, to cleanse, integrate and evaluate large datasets.
• Tracks delivery cycle time, quality and business impact (dollars influenced, hours reclaimed) and reports to the function lead.

Benefits

• Supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable

What This Job Offers

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