Key Customer Supply Planning Manager

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Job Title

Key Customer Supply Planning Manager

As the Key Customer Supply Planning Manager, you will be responsible for leadership, analysis, and driving planning optimization to enable excellent supply reliability and responsiveness for key semiconductor market customers. You will be a key member of the planning team, this individual will collaborate closely with customer account managers, plant planning and production, inside sales representatives, and cross-functional teams to streamline operations and support business growth.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate processes and initiatives to effectively plan and address supply fulfillment and shortages for a key semiconductor customer(s).
• Leverage global production and inventory plans to drive clear, coordinated organizational actions on supply escalations for key customer(s). 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and monitor order and forecast status by working closely with inside sales representatives, account teams, and multiple data sources.
• Coordinate and drive supply constraint solutions, where appropriate, by collaborating with product management, plant planning, and inside sales to optimize production across multiple global sites.
• Identify, track, and implement actions to mitigate future capacity and demand fulfillment concerns through forecasting improvements, customer specific strategies, and metrics/reporting.
• Analyze and summarize forecast signals to facilitate supply-side analysis, assessing the impact of demand changes on the supply plans. Provide insights and recommendations to management to drive informed business decisions.
• Prepare and deliver communications to customers and internal teams across multiple plants and manufacturing regions.
• Develop reports and tools to summarize forecasts, demand, inventory, and capacity.

Job Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field (business, engineering, supply chain)
• 10 years of relevant experience
• MBA or supply chain certification (i.e. APICS) are desirable but not required

Functional/Technical Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Analytical skills; able to create and utilize spreadsheet models tracking demand, supply, and inventory including multiple scenarios.
• Data savvy: able to quickly merge data from multiple sources, manipulate it, and present it intelligibly to explain the situation (i.e., tell the story)
• Strong communication skills:
  • Comfortable working cross functionally, both internally and external to CoorsTek
  • Able to navigate difficult meetings with professionalism
  • Able to create concise email and PowerPoint communications
• Projec