Sr Demand Planner, Specialist - 2221

KIOXIA America Inc. is looking for a Senior Demand Planner for our Business Operations team. As a key member of the SSD Business Unit (BU) team, you will manage the demand planning activities and work closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Customer Service teams to ensure that operational metrics on demand forecasting, delivery and inventory are achieved. The winning candidate will demonstrate strong interpersonal and excellent communication skills, with a proactive, positive approach to problem solving, as well as, attention to detail while never losing sight of the big picture.

This role will report to the Manager of SSD Planning and Business Operations.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the demand planning process and customer deliverables for assigned customers.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing and Customer Technical Support teams to proactively influence demand-supply alignment, forecast accuracy, and respond to market dynamics.
• Partner with Japan headquarters team in weekly planning meetings to clearly communicate demand changes, confirm supply plans and review customer action items.
• Drive customer meetings by presenting SSD supply plans & demand forecasts, updating delivery schedules and coordinating responses to action items.
• Provide weekly reporting analysis by collecting all data relevant to creating the revenue plan (backlog, lead times, product lifecycle, historical sales, market trends, sales forecast).
• Engage senior leaders in meetings and presentations with consensus revenue forecast, KPI metrics as well as risks and opportunities within the S&OP cycle.
• Perform data analysis and reporting for selected key inventory metrics such as ending on hand (EOH), days of supply (DOS) targets, and aging inventory disposition plans.
• Responsible for the execution of key operational and revenue related activities.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvements to business processes.
• Drive root cause/corrective actions to improve business performance.
• Onsite in office: Tuesday through Thursday

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5-8 years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and related business experience.
• 3-5 years’ experience in customer facing roles within demand planning, supply chain, procurement, or account management required, semiconductor industry preferred. 
• Proficiency in Excel required, advanced a strong plus. 
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate issues, ideas and solutions.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills with the ability to clearly communicate assumptions, risks, and opportunities in logical models.
• Demonstrated ability to handle ambiguity, changing priorities and business volatility.
• Solid State Drive Storage industry experience a strong plus

Additional Information

Req# 2221; #LI-CB1

The expected salary for this position is $81,560.00 - $130,530.00.

At KIOXIA, we value the following:

• Investment in you
  • Offering opportunities for career growth and personal development training
• Open-minded management
  • Empowering employees by listening and responding to ideas, issues, and approaches
• Flexible work-life balance
  • Offering a generous PTO allotment, holiday shutdown, and flexible work options
• Variety of cultures, perspectives, backgrounds and experiences of all our team members
  • Through our opportunity, belonging and respect initiatives, our focus is to strengthen our company culture to create an environment of belonging for all
• Benefits for our team members
  • Excellent medical and non-medical benefits, 401(k) matching, pet insurance

KIOXIA America, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.