Head of Business Operations

About the role

Vishay San Jose is seeking a Director of Business Operations to integrate marketing and operations, ensuring seamless execution from market strategy through delivery.

Responsibilities

• Act as central coordination point between Division Marketing and Operations to align demand, supply, and execution.
• Translate product roadmaps, market segmentation, and pricing strategies into volume, capacity, and manufacturing plans.
• Drive alignment between revenue targets, build plans, inventory strategy, and lifecycle management.
• Lead division-level capacity planning, S&OP, and executive reviews.
• Ensure timely communication of demand changes, product transitions, and priority shifts.
• Resolve gaps between market demand and operational capability through data-driven trade-off decisions.
• Lead annual operating planning and quarterly execution reviews for the division.
• Partner with Division Marketing on long-term growth strategies and with Operations on long-term capacity and cost strategies.
• Track execution of strategic initiatives and ensure cross-functional accountability.
• Define and maintain key business metrics including revenue, gross margin, on-time delivery, inventory, cost, and cycle time.
• Develop dashboards and executive reporting for division and corporate leadership.
• Analyze performance variances and drive corrective action.
• Standardize operating rhythms, governance, and decision-making processes across Marketing and Operations.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to improve forecast accuracy, cycle time, and cost structure.
• Drive simplification and scalability as the business grows.
• Facilitate alignment across Product Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Finance.
• Lead change management for new products, system implementations, and organizational transitions.
• Foster an outward mindset culture focused on enterprise results over functional optimization.

Requirements

• Bachelor/Master’s degree in Engineering, Business (Operations/Supply Chain Management), Operations Research or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in semiconductor business operations, product line management, or operations leadership.
• Direct experience working across Product Marketing and Manufacturing/Supply Chain organizations.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor product lifecycles, capacity planning, and cost structures.
• Proven ability to influence across a matrixed organization.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting wafer fab and/or OSAT operations.
• Exposure to advanced nodes, specialty technologies, or complex product portfolios.
• Background in S&OP, demand planning, or product line operations.

Key Competencies

• End-to-end business thinking (market → fab → back end → customer).
• Executive communication and decision facilitation.
• Data-driven trade-off and prioritization skills.
• Strong systems and process orientation.
• Change leadership and stakeholder alignment.

Pay

$225k/yr - $300k/yr