Key Responsibilities
This role is within the Global Supply Chain Organization at Applied Materials, focuses on the Business Unit (BU). We are looking for an inspiring people manager who can empower the team and drive business success in New Product Introduction (NPI). You will lead a team and spearhead key NPI projects, managing stakeholders to ensure a balanced demand and supply equation.
Your role involves effectively communicating and influencing engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers. Additionally, you’ll contribute to outsourcing decisions through make versus buy analysis. Leading the NPI Materials Core Team, you’ll coordinate product development process deliverables in a matrix management setup. Collaboration with the NPI TPMs, product engineering team to interpret requirements is crucial. With minimal supervision, you’ll lead a team and also work on projects that develop, release, and maintain new project materials strategies. Experience in managing commodities such as Gold, Quartz, and metals is preferred. Your responsibilities will also include leading cost-saving initiatives and conducting BOM scrubs to meet savings targets for the BU.
Additional responsibilities:
Develop, implement and manage cross-functional, fully integrated planning process that incorporates make vesus buy, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory, material and associated cost elements.
Performs analysis of customer demand, sales forecasts and historical material usage to develop and execute build to order and build to forecast plans. Coordinate with cross-funtional business teams to develop best cost strategy for production planning to support customer demand.
Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control.
Establishes and manages production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules. Responsible for accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing, in conjunction with Finance, and inventory control system, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies in the future.
Develop and execute a sourcing strategy to meet the company’s business growth and sourcing requirements. Identify, develop, and manage effective relationship with existing and potential suppliers of goods and services to meet the established cost, quality and delivery targets. Establish, implement, and manage system to evaluate, monitor and report supplier scorecard performance.
Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, machining, and assembly operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedule to proactively identify and address any issues.
Represents materials organization on corporate materials task force teams. Manages department budget, associated costs and resources.
Functional Knowledge
- Demonstrates in-depth understanding of concepts, theories and principles in own job family and basic knowledge of other related job families
Business Expertise
- Applies understanding of the industry and how own area contributes to the achievement of objectives
Leadership
- Manages a generally homogeneous team; adapts plans and priorities to meet service and/or operational challenges
Problem Solving
- Identifies and resolves technical, operational and organizational problems
Impact
Interpersonal Skills
- Guides, influences and persuades others internally in related areas or externally
Position requires understanding of Applied Materials global Standards of Business Conduct and compliance with these standards at all times. This includes demonstrating the highest level of ethical conduct reflecting Applied Materials’ core values.
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Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree
Skills:
Certifications:
Languages:
Years of Experience:
7 - 10 Years
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Additional Information
Time Type:
Full time
Employee Type:
Assignee / Regular
Travel:
Yes, 25% of the Time
Relocation Eligible:
Yes
U.S. Salary Range:
$128,000.00 - $176,000.00
The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.
For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.
Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
