Senior Staff Strategic Planning Specialist

Senior Staff Strategic Planning Specialist

We are seeking a Sr. Staff Strategic Planning Specialist to join our Arizona based client. The ideal candidate combines strong quantitative modeling skills, and semiconductor supply chain knowledge. Constraint engineering discipline and cross-functional partnership are also requirements.

Job Description

In this role you will be required but not limited to:

• Develop and maintain component-level demand/capacity models across various functions.
• Translate market, customer, and product roadmap inputs into scalable capacity requirements.
• Build scenario-based models for base, upside, downside, and surge demand.
• Establish planning assumptions, model governance, and refresh cadence to improve forecast consistency and decision quality.
• Create and maintain supply chain capacity profiles across internal and external manufacturing sites.
• Identify structural capacity constraints early and define mitigation paths before NPI start or production ramp commitments.
• Support surge planning by modeling practical upside capacity, recovery timing, qualification dependencies, and risk buffers.
• Drive fewer late capacity escalations by converting long-range signals into actionable capacity readiness plans.
• Identify hidden systemic bottlenecks across various functions.
• Lead data-driven root cause analysis using operational, engineering, supplier, yield, and cycle-time data to isolate constraint drivers and quantify business impact.
• Own constraint resolution from detection through mitigation, closure, and recurrence prevention across cross-functional teams.
• Feed structural fixes into DFM, capacity planning, cost reduction, qualification, and supplier readiness roadmaps.
• Mitigate systemic scaling failures by converting recurring bottlenecks.
• Develop qualification roadmaps that align capacity availability with portfolio demand, NPI timing, and scale requirements.
• Partner with various functions to evaluate capacity expansion options, qualification lead times, and investment trade-offs.
• Prioritize capacity actions based on a number of differing factors.
• Facilitate cross-functional capacity reviews.
• Translate complex capacity risks into clear executive recommendations, decisions, and escalation paths.
• Ensure capacity plans are aligned before NPI start and remain synchronized through ramp and scale execution.
• Develop dashboards and KPIs to monitor capacity availability, utilization, structural constraints, qualification status, systemic bottlenecks, recovery progress, and escalation risks.
• Conduct sensitivity analysis on demand volatility, supplier constraints, site readiness, surge scenarios, and systemic scaling risks.
• Drive continuous improvement in modeling methods.
• Improve recovery speed from any issues that occur by establishing decision paths, mitigation playbooks, and feedback loops into capacity and DFM planning.

Qualifications

• Educated to at least Bachelor’s level in Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain planning, or operations strategy.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor fabrication and supply chain.
• Experience identifying systemic bottlenecks, leading data-driven root cause analysis, and driving structural fixes across engineering, manufacturing, supplier, and capacity planning teams.
• Advanced analytical and modeling skills (Excel, VCO, AI Optimization, SQL, Python, or similar tools).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.