Senior Supply Chain Planner

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

About The Position

At NVIDIA, employees are passionate about parallel and visual computing, transforming graphics for work and play in areas like video game development, film production, deep learning, space exploration, medicine, computational finance, and automotive design. The company seeks passionate, hard-working, and creative individuals to help with these opportunities. As a Senior Supply Chain Planner for substrates, the role acts as a critical link within Operations, Engineering, and Business Units for substrates and their associated supply chain. The planner will own operations' supply commitments for substrates, which are essential for meeting customer and revenue commitments. This position involves placing purchase requests, closely monitoring deliveries for both new products and high-volume mass production substrates, and crafting optimized production schedules for multiple products and SKUs, considering factors like die availability, priorities, materials availability, and constraints. The role also involves driving decisions on dependent demands of materials and capacity to support the build plan and determining tradeoff options with internal partners when issues arise. Additionally, the planner will analyze substrate shortfalls to prepare supply summaries and forecasts for management.

Requirements

5+ years of working experience in the semiconductor operations field - Supply Planning / Supply Chain or relevant areas.
Degree in Industrial Engineering or Business Administration or equivalent experience in semiconductor Planning.
Good communication, problem-solving, teamwork, organizational, and quantitative skills.
Proficiency in business software applications such as Microsoft Office, Excel VBA, SAP, SAP APO, Windchill, industry leading Advanced Planning software.
Excellent English skills on reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Personality: highly organized, detailed orientated, a self-starter with a strong sense of ownership.

Nice To Haves

Background or experience in engineering, advanced packaging operations.
Demonstrate consistently the ability to drive solutions to real world operational problems that hinder our ability to hit the goals.
Lead internal and external team members with interpersonal skills to establish preventive action plans that can improve the overall performance of the company.
To demonstrate expert system skills in Excel Macro and VBA facilitating new process development.
Exposure to SAP IBP and / or Anaplan is preferred.

Responsibilities

Act as the critical link within Operations, Engineering and the Business Units for substrates and associated supply chain.
Own operations' supply commitments for substrates that the company will rely on to make customer and revenue commitments.
Be responsible for placing purchase requests and closely monitoring deliveries for both new products and high volume mass production substrates.
Craft an optimized requested production schedule for multiple products and SKUs considering die availability, priorities, materials availability and constraints for NVIDIA's execution teams.
Drive and influence decisions on dependent demands of materials and capacity, in order to support the required build plan.
Determine tradeoff options and work with internal partners to craft the optimal plan when capacity, materials, and production issues prevent satisfying all demand.
Analyze substrates shortfalls to prepare a supply summary and forecast to management.