Silicon Wafer Planning Manager
About The Position
The Silicon Wafer Supply Planner is responsible for ensuring the availability of wafer and die supply to support manufacturing requirements and customer demand. This role translates demand forecasts into wafer requirements, manages supply plans with foundry and semiconductor partners, identifies capacity and material constraints, and drives mitigation strategies to protect customer commitments. The planner operates in a highly constrained, long-lead-time semiconductor environment where demand can exceed available capacity. Success requires strong analytical skills, disciplined planning, supplier coordination, and the ability to balance customer demand, inventory, capacity, yield, lead time, and supply risk.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline preferred, with 3–7+ years of experience in semiconductor planning, wafer planning, material planning, production planning, or supply-chain management.
- Experience working with semiconductor foundries, wafer fabrication, die supply, OSATs, optical components, or other long-cycle-time manufacturing environments is strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of MRP/ERP systems, supply-demand balancing, inventory management, capacity planning, and advanced Excel or analytical tools.
Nice To Haves
- Demonstrated experience operating in constrained and allocation-driven supply environments.
- Experience working with contract manufacturers and outsourced manufacturing models.
- Strong analytical capability and ability to convert complex supply-chain information into executive-level decisions.
- Proven ability to influence Sales, Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Finance, suppliers, and senior leadership.
- Have the capacity to see and articulate a vision that inspires change!
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end wafer and die supply planning by translating finished-goods forecasts and production demands into foundry start schedules, inventory targets, and safety-stock strategies.
- Actively manage foundry capacity, yield, cycle times, and upstream supplier performance to proactively identify shortages.
- Execute allocation priorities across cross-functional leadership.
- Lead scenario/recovery planning to ensure continuous supply assurance and transparent delivery commits.
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- Cisco restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
