Senior Business Operations Manager

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you. 

  Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world. 
 

Job Description

Renesas is actively seeking an experienced and dynamic business operations professional to fill the role of Senior Business Operations Manager for the Low Power Core product line.  The Low Power Core product line, part of the Performance Computing Power (PCP) division, develops high performance digital multiphase voltage regulators, Smart Power Stages and PMICs targeting the Client Computing market, including the fast growing AI-PCs, Gaming and graphics markets. 

As part of Renesas’s Low Power Core Product Line, you will partner with Operations, New Product Introduction (NPI) and Marketing teams to run the business and ensure business objectives are met.  In this role wide-ranging role, you will have broad influence and latitude to set priorities for both business development and investments to drive execution, product ramp, product cost down, roadmap and supplier selection. You will develop, consolidate, and provide KPI and other business data to track progress and drive critical business decisions.  You will assemble and lead teams to meet short and long-term improvement objectives. 

This position will be ideally located in Morrisville, North Carolina. Open to other locations. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Own all business operations activities for the Low Power Core product line. 

• Develop and maintain product line business performance indicators and prepare monthly business operation reports, including BIBA, Bookings, Channel Inventory, POS Consumption, etc. 

• Perform analytics of the opportunity funnel and design in/wins. 

• Manage demand forecasting for new products, sustaining products and engineering samples.  Manage the sampling process of new products. 

• Work with Renesas’s operations team on wafer starts and capacity planning.  Own business decisions on manufacturing priority.  Evaluate data in BIBA and forecast to make needed adjustments to manufacturing build and inventory planning.  

• Support supply escalations from Sales to Operations and Tactical Marketing. 

• Manage pricing strategy and quotes for both new product introductions and sustaining products. 

• Provide support to the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process. 

• Review lifecycle stages of our product portfolio and determine when to promote to EOL status. 

• Drive improvements in business and NPI processes. 

Qualifications

• BSEE or related field with 10+ years of experience in operations, marketing and/or manufacturing in the semiconductor industry.  MBA is a plus. 

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.  Strong ability to make data-driven decisions and effectively use key performance indicators to measure success.  

• High energy, self-motivated, and go-getter attitude, with a bias towards action. 

• Exceptional communications and interpersonal skills, with the ability to be personable and drive process changes.  Experience with managing change that resulted in positive outcomes. 

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines. 

• Demonstrated track record of managing complex supply chains and high volume manufacturing. 

• Excellent written and oral communications skills.  Ability to present complex concepts in a clear, concise and effective way.  

• Ability to collaborate and