Director of Planning

Responsibilities

• Semiconductor Planning Organization Leadership and People Development
• Lead the Semiconductor planning organization by overseeing near-term planning across all U.S. and Korean manufacturing plants and driving mid-term planning initiatives across the entire business segment.
• Foster a team culture based on accountability, structured problem solving, data-driven decisions, continuous improvement, automation, and strong partnership with manufacturing and business stakeholders.
• Enable a team to support Semiconductor business growth, higher planning-system capability, stronger SiOP execution, and more resilient day-to-day operations.
• Near-term planning
• Provide leadership and ensure effective execution at each plant via plant planning managers and planning teams responsible for production planning, master scheduling, order promising, short-horizon capacity management, material planning, and customer delivery execution.
• Work with plant planning managers to ensure plant manufacturing performance, constraints, and recovery plans, are accurately represented in planning processes and communicated to business leadership.
• Establish common planning standards, routines, metrics, escalation processes, and performance expectations across the U.S. and Korea Semiconductor planning teams.
• Ensure the Key Customer Supply Manager is closely aligned with the plant planning groups to manage key customer escalations, including issue resolution facilitation, supply plan reporting, communication cadence, and support.
• Semiconductor Segment Mid-Term Supply Planning Leadership
• Own the mid-term (12+ months) SiOP planning processes for the Semiconductor business segment, including capacity planning, inventory planning, material planning, and constrained forecast creation.
• Translate demand forecasts, customer requirements, product-line priorities, and commercial inputs into supply plans, capacity requirements, inventory implications, and recommended operating actions.
• Develop options to mitigate constraints leading to negative customer, revenue, inventory, or cost impacts.
• Lead the development and increased use of mid-term capacity models and planning tools in partnership with manufacturing, engineering, IT, finance, and corporate planning resources.
• Partner with operations, product management, commercial, and finance to align supply plans with product-line strategy, customer priorities, new product launches, demand changes, inventory, capacity utilization, and cost performance.
• Capacity, Inventory, and Network Optimization
• Develop and execute inventory strategies to support customer service, revenue fulfillment, operational efficiency, and corporate working-capital objectives.
• Successfully manage customer consignment processes to meet customer expectations while managing CoorsTek cost, control, and effectiveness.
• Support inter-site planning decisions and coordination across multiple manufacturing sites, including CoorsTek plants outside the Semiconductor segment.
• Ensure accurate and timely material requirement plans are created. Partner with procurement and internal powder manufacturing planning teams to ensure relevant constraints and supply chain strategies are incorporated.
• Planning Systems, Data Management, and Process Governance
• Utilize planning systems (SAP, QAD ERP, SAP IBP) to ensure effective planning processes.
• Champion and implement continuous process improvements and system enhancements.
• Ensure that planning master data, planning parameters, bills of material, routings, work centers, capacity assumptions, and MRP inputs, are maintained with sufficient quality to support effective planning decisions.
• Develop standard planning reports, metrics, routines, and dashboards, that improve visibility to demand/supply alignment, capacity constraints, inventory risk, and customer service performance.

Requirements

• Education And Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Management, Business, Finance, or a related field required. Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
• At least 10 years of experience in production planning, supply planning, capacity planning, manufacturing planning, SiOP, or related supply chain leadership roles required.
• Experience leading planning teams in a multi-site manufacturing environment required.
• Experience managing managers or leading through multiple planning teams strongly preferred.
• Strong manufacturing background required.
• PREFERRED EXPERIENCE
• Preferred experience in ceramics, advanced materials, process manufacturing, automotive, industrial, electronics, or other complex manufacturing environments.
• Experience leading supply-side SiOP/S&OP processes for a business unit, region, or complex product-line portfolio required.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems required. SAP and SAP IBP, or equivalent advanced planning systems, preferred.
• Experience in driving process improvement, automation, and AI application projects.
• Experience developing capacity models, inventory strategies, production planning processes, and planning governance routines required.