Supply Planning Lead - IoT&Edge - Migration

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Job Overview

Job Purpose

Lead end-to-end supply planning for assigned product portfolio, ensuring alignment between customer demand, supply capability, inventory strategy, and migration execution. Drive demand-to-supply translation, capacity planning, source transitions, and supply execution while continuously improving delivery performance, working capital, and supply chain efficiency.

Job Requirements

Activities

Demand and Supply Management

• Understand customer demand, product lifecycle (NPI / Mature / EOL), and key requirements

• Translate demand into supply plan considering DC inventory, lead time, multi-source capacity, and customer requirements

• Drive demand signal improvement and stability across planning pipeline

• Lead demand-supply balancing and identify gaps, risks, and mitigation actions

Supply Management

• Understand supply status across sources including capacity, constraints and material readiness

• Drive supply improvement with PM (capacity planning), factory (efficiency), and procurement (material readiness)

• Improve delivery performance, supply reliability and service level

Inventory, Cost & Performance

• Manage end-to-end inventory strategy across DC, plant and upstream

• Optimize cash performance (DOH, inventory value) and supply chain cost

• Balance trade-offs between service, inventory and cost

Project & Lifecycle Management

• Lead supply planning for plant-to-plant and plant-to-Extended Manufacturing Services (EMS) migration projects, and EOL transitions

• Build and govern end-to-end migration plans covering demand validation, capacity, materials, tooling, qualification, PCN/customer approval, inventory, ramp-up, and cutover readiness

• Manage migration risks, dependencies, milestone tracking, escalation, and execution to protect customer delivery and inventory health

• Define bridge inventory, safety stock, risk-buy, last-time-buy, and source phase-in/phase-out strategy with clear ownership and decision gates

• Coordinate sending and receiving sites, Extended Manufacturing Services (EMS) partners, Sales, PM, Procurement, Quality, Engineering, Logistics, and Finance through stabilization and project closure

• Capture migration lessons learned and standardize planning playbooks, trackers, and governance routines for future transitions

Team Leadership & Execution

• Lead and develop supply planning team

• Drive cross-functional alignment with Sales, PM, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Logistics, Finance, and migration project teams

• Ensure strong execution discipline and accountability

Interacts with

• Sales & Demand Planning

• Product Management

• Manufacturing / Plant Planning

• Procurement / Sourcing

• Logistics / DC Planning

• Finance

• Project Teams

• Quality / Engineering / Customer Approval Teams

• Extended Manufacturing Services (EMS) Partners and Sending / Receiving Sites

Competencies & Skills

• Strong SIOP / S&OE experience

• Capacity planning and scenario modeling

• Migration program planning, milestone governance, cutover management, and ramp stabilization

• Source transition inventory strategy, including bridge stock, safety stock, risk buy, and phase-in / phase-out control

• Cross-functional risk management, escalation, and stakeholder influence across global teams

• Material replenishment strategy and inventory planning

• End-to-end supply chain management understanding

• Data analytics and reporting capability

• Continuous improvement mindset

• Ability to challenge status quo and drive change

• Risk management and problem-solving capability

• Strong ownership and accountability

• Excellent communication and influencing skills

What your background should look like

Education

• Bachelor degree or above in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or related field (good university preferred)

Experience

• 8-10 years of strong experience in supply planning / supply chain management, including team leadership experience

• Hands-on experience in SIOP, capacity planning and inventory management

• Experience managing product portfolio supply chains and complex source-transfer or manufacturing migration projects

• Demonstrated ability to manage migration from planning through qualification, cutover, ramp-up, stabilization, and closure

• Experience working with Extended Manufacturing Services (EMS) partners, multiple manufacturing sites, and cross-functional global stakeholders is preferred

Exposure

• Experience in international companies

• Exposure to cross-cultural collaboration

• Result-oriented and fast execution mindset