Spares Demand Planning Lead

About the role

The KLA Services team, based in Milpastos, CA, is seeking a seasoned Spares Demand Planner to lead and develop a team of spares demand planners. This role requires a deep understanding of product expertise across various lifecycles and the ability to manage spares demand planning execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of spares demand planners, providing coaching, performance management, and career development support.
• Learn and apply product expertise across New Product Introduction (NPI), Volume Manufacturing, and Mature Product Lifecycles to ensure the optimal spares inventory is planned and stocked at the right place at the right time to support our global customers.
• Own end-to-end spares demand planning execution for assigned product lines, ensuring alignment between installed base trends, failure behavior, and business priorities.
• Translate high-level business objectives and service targets into actionable demand plans that drive inventory, replenishment, and repair strategies.
• Monitor and report on metrics and KPIs such as fill rate performance, inventory levels, and forecast accuracy. Continuously conduct Root Cause / Corrective Action analyses to identify improvement opportunities.
• Partner closely with Supply Planning, Product Support Organization (PSO), Services Operations, Finance, and Regional stakeholders to understand critical planning inputs, align plans, communicate risk, and resolve demand-supply gaps.
• Drive continuous improvement of demand planning processes, data quality, planning assumptions, process & governance documentation and system usage.
• Support and influence cross-functional forums and governance routines (e.g., spares master schedule reviews, exception approvals, and Executive readouts).
• Ensure planning methodologies appropriately balance customer availability, cost, and risk, leveraging historical demand patterns, installed base data, relevant insights, and forward-looking signals.
• Provide clear, concise communication of demand insights, risks, and trade-offs to leadership and stakeholders.
• Lead and mentor planners in a complex, matrixed supply chain environment.
• Previous experience leading or mentoring planners in a complex, matrixed supply chain environment is preferred.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in demand planning, supply chain planning, or a related analytical role.
• 2+ years of experience managing or supervising employees, or demonstrated experience leading teams and workstreams.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing demand plans that directly impact inventory, service levels, and financial performance.
• Proficiency in data analysis and forecasting concepts.
• Comfortable operating in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment with competing priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations.
• Ability to work effectively across global teams and time zones.
• Partner with Advanced Analytics Teams to develop sophisticated analytical tools, dashboards, and reporting to support data-driven, fast and effective decision making.
• Champion standard work, documentation, and knowledge sharing across the planning organization.

Qualifications

• Master's Level Degree and 0 years related work experience; Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 2 years; or equivalent work experience.

Benefits

• Base Pay Range: $78,500.00 - $133,500.00 Annually

Pay

• Base Pay Range: $78,500.00 - $133,500.00 Annually

Schedule

• Primary Location: USA-MI-Ann Arbor-KLA

Company

• KLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem.