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
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China