Job Description
Job Title:  Supply Planning Lead - IoT&Edge - Migration
Posting Start Date:  10/23/26
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Job Description: 

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

Job Locations:

BUILDING 5, 1F-8F, NO.1528 GUMEI ROAD
SHANGHAI, Shanghai 200233
China

Posting City:  SHANGHAI
Job Country:  China
Travel Required:  Less than 10%
Requisition ID:  160500
Workplace Type:  Onsite
External Careers Page:  Manufacturing