Product Planning Manager

OVERVIEW: A vital leadership role with responsibility for analyzing, planning and synthesizing customer demand and market projections, setting the plan for component manufacturing (wafer starts, wafer processing), material purchases and production plans to achieve established production, customer delivery, and supply chain management objectives. This candidate will lead the New Product Introduction Process and coordinate various corporate resources, ultimately establishing product availability schedules. This position requires pro-active and enthusiastic approaches to cross-functional problem solving and strong follow through.
RESPONSIBILITIES:Optimize Long-Term Product Planning for our OEM Flash products.Of foremost importance, devise and implement progressive product projections to ensure intelligent capital commitments and material inventories: ~Analyze customer demand evolution to define the capacity increase plan
~Actively participate in the capital investment approval process and its executionEstablish precise guidelines for component transitions
~Constantly monitor component availability and technology evolution
~Coordinate the integration of new components
~Manage the Product Change Notification processDrive Analytically-Based Processes into All Product Lifecycle ActivitiesImplement and maintain in-depth bottoms-up product forecast ~Product introduction: samples management and allocation
~Mass production: analyze sales forecast and intelligently define the components procurement strategy
~End of Life: coordinate last-time-buy and new product sampling to customersAnalyze the projected ROI of future business and marketing initiatives
~Regularly update the product business plan to prioritize the capital spending and R&D activityNew Product Introductions: Coordinate Cross-Functional Activities to Ensure Efficient New Product IntroductionsImplement and institutionalize New Product Introduction process ~Act as a project leader inside the company coordinating the activity of R&D, engineering, quality, manufacturing and logistic to achieve new product time to market and time to volume.
Lead the company through the phases of New Product Introduction, maintaining accountability for deliverables, establishing priorities and providing leadership for the effort ~Tutor the product from its concept through the development stage and its release to productionREPORTING STRUCTURE:This position reports directly to the Director of Flash MarketingThis position will work closely with the senior management team as a cross-functional manager that must be able to effectively articulate company priorities across all the major departments: sales, marketing, purchasing, procurement, and manufacturingJob Requirements
Qualifications:
* Bachelor's Degree in Business or Engineering
* 5+ years in marketing planning and sales operations experience in the semiconductor or sub-system environment* Exceptional interpersonal and team leadership skills
* Strong oral and written communication skills* Excellent attention to detail
* Good mathematical skills* Self-motivated