Intel's Corporate Planning Group (CPG) aims to build a comprehensive operating plan that leverages internal and external manufacturing for Intel's growth. We emphasize data-driven innovation and results, ensuring we meet customer demands and financial targets. In New Product Development Planning we play a key role in the product development teams (PDT) for products from early design to product launch. We execute in a fast-paced dynamic environment that lays the path for products to go to revenue. The New Product Planner will be responsible for, but not limited to: The coordination and startup activities for a product line from engineering to production and ensuring a smooth transition from new product introduction to high volume manufacturing. Collecting and organizing data from multiple sources, developing optimized supply plans, and monitoring product flow to ensure product commits are met on time, in the correct amount, and in the correct configuration. Creating supply forecast, running and reporting 'what if' analyses. Driving new product naming, BOM creation, and routing requirements through product planning systems setup activities. Collecting and scrubbing engineering and marketing sample demand against product supply forecast. Ensuring required information is consolidated, organized, presented, and readily available for downstream activities. Performing analysis of manufacturing risks, capacity utilization, manufacturing scheduling inventory levels, engineering requirements and customer demand and/or delivery expectations for product start up through product stabilization. Applying advanced analytics and optimization modeling to find patterns and relationships in data to help optimize inventory, material, and create supply strategies Effectively interacting and managing cross functional stakeholders worldwide. Understanding both supply chain strategies and technical details of CPU engineering programs. Role modeling Lean culture. Identifying and driving process improvements based on thorough understanding of the business processes and supply chain dependencies. Communicate, explain, and clarify complex process issues with the customer business groups divisions and translate business requirements. Help develop processes and tools for a new manufacturing flow and product configuration. Act as an interface to tool teams representing tool and process requirements. The ideal candidate should exhibit the following behavioral traits: Analytical skills, willingness to work in a diverse team environment, work well in an ambiguous environment, strong verbal and written communication skills, Attention to detail, well organized, efficiency LEAN oriented, self-motivated, solution oriented, data driven, self-motivation, presentation This is an Intel Contract Employee (ICE) position and relocation will not be provided. This is a 12-month temporary contract with the possibility of extension. Extension is subject to mutual agreement between the candidate and the business.