Director-foundry Customer Planning

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · California, Santa Clara, United States

Director-level role leading a global supply chain organization for Intel Foundry, focusing on end-to-end demand planning, capacity management, pricing strategy, and external partner coordination to ensure predictable, high-quality product delivery. The role involves managing complex customer demands, roadmaps, and manufacturing signals to achieve on-time execution across fabs, assembly, test, and suppliers, with responsibilities including forecast accuracy, supply assurance, cycle-time optimization, and revenue protection for high-volume and advanced technology products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead long‑range (3–5 year) and short‑range demand forecasting, translating customer roadmaps, tape‑outs, and ramps into executable supply plans.
  2. Serve as a senior interface to external customers, foundry partners, OSATs, substrate suppliers, and ecosystem partners.
  3. Drive cycle‑time reduction initiatives across front‑end and back‑end operations.
  4. Own inventory health, cost modeling, margin protection, and revenue enablement in partnership with finance and sales.
  5. Lead and develop globally distributed planning, operations, and supply chain teams.

Skills

Required

  • Supply chain operations
  • Planning
  • Manufacturing
  • Product operations
  • Forecasting
  • Capacity planning
  • Pricing
  • Supply assurance
  • Cross-functional execution
  • Engineering
  • Operations
  • Finance
  • Sales
  • High-volume product execution
  • Advanced technology product execution

Nice to have

  • Foundry
  • Semiconductor manufacturing
  • Advanced technology supply chain
  • External manufacturing partners
  • OSATs
  • Strategic suppliers
  • Pricing strategy
  • NRE negotiations
  • Commercial deal structures
  • Product ramps
  • Node transitions
  • New technology introductions
  • Executive stakeholders
  • Tier-1 customers

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years of progressive experience in supply chain operations, planning, manufacturing, or product operations.
  • Demonstrated leadership across forecasting, capacity planning, pricing, and supply assurance.
  • Track record of owning execution for high‑volume, advanced technology products.