Senior Director, Supply Chain Management

## Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

## Job Area:
Operations Group, Operations Group > Supply Chain Management

General Summary:

Qualcomm’s Global Planning organization is seeking a Senior Director, Supply Chain Management to lead Consolidated Business Planning – Demand (CBP-D), the global team that turns business-unit demand into Qualcomm’s unconstrained and constrained demand plans and runs the demand side of the company’s monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) cycle. Reporting to the Vice President, Global Planning, this leader owns demand governance end to end: business-unit demand submission and consensus forecasting, constrained-supply allotment and allocation on leading-edge wafer nodes, and the Executive Demand Review and Executive S&OP forums where senior leaders make supply, capacity and revenue trade-off decisions. The role leads a multi-level, global organization of operational demand managers and analysts across the United States, Taiwan and India, and partners daily with Business Unit operations, Sales, Finance, Sourcing, Capacity Planning, Supply Planning, Manufacturing Operations and IT. The successful candidate brings deep demand- and supply-planning expertise, strong financial acumen and executive presence, and will lead the next stage of demand-planning transformation, including advanced demand forecasting, planning-system automation and practical AI, while keeping the monthly cycle and constrained-supply decisions running with discipline.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Business Operations, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field.
• 10+ years of Supply Chain, Product Planning, or related work experience.

*Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master’s degree or MBA in Supply Chain, Business Operations, Industrial Engineering, Finance, or related field.
- 15+ years of semiconductor or high-technology supply chain planning experience spanning demand planning, S&OP/IBP, and supply or capacity planning; fabless and foundry experience strongly preferred.
- 8+ years leading multi-level organizations (managers of managers), including teams distributed across regions and time zones.
- 5+ years in roles requiring regular engagement with executive leadership (Vice President and above), including leading executive S&OP or demand reviews.
- Proven experience running demand planning through constrained supply: allotment and allocation, customer and business-unit prioritization.
- Strong financial acumen, including reconciling demand to financial forecasts and budgets and quantifying the revenue and inventory impact of supply/demand decisions.
- Hands-on experience with advanced planning systems (Kinaxis Maestro/RapidResponse preferred) and enterprise analytics platforms (e.g., Databricks); experience leading planning-system enhancements and automation.
- Experience leading forecasting transformation, such as statistical or machine-learning forecasting, demand-signal design and AI-enabled planning, together with the change management needed for adoption.
- Track record of influencing without authority across business units, Sales, Finance, Sourcing and IT, with concise executive communication and storytelling.
- ASCM/APICS certification (CPIM or CSCP) or equivalent is a plus.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

- Demand organization leadership: Leads the Consolidated Business Planning – Demand team through a leadership team of directors and senior managers; sets direction, goals, KPIs, decision rights (RACI) and back-up coverage for every recurring deliverable; builds bench strength, succession and development plans; and owns the team’s annual strategic plan and people plan.
- Monthly demand cycle: Owns the demand side of the monthly S&OP calendar, including opening and governing the Unconstrained Demand Plan (UDP) in the planning system, to support prioritization and allocation, and publishing the monthly demand.
- Constrained demand plan: Partners with Supply Planning, Capacity Planning and Finance during solve week to produce the Constrained Demand Plan (CDP); leads S&OP feedback loop and protects CDP integrity by holding post-publish changes to agreed governance.
- Executive governance: Chairs the monthly Executive Demand Review and owns the presentation, collateral and action tracking with the VP, Supply Chain and business-unit leaders; provides the demand view for the Senior Executive S&OP, business-unit S&OP reviews (e.g., RF front-end), the weekly demand-change and supply-decision forum, and operations solve reviews; turns complex supply/demand positions into clear decisions, risks and owners.
- Demand allocation: Leads allocation decision making for constrained leading-edge nodes, including collaboration with corporate leads for strategic alignment, pre-allotment checks, manual allocations and prioritization by business unit and customer; & structure alignment with agreed upon capacity assumptions.
- Assumption change control: Ensures major demand planning-assumption changes (e.g., new priorities, financial commitments, etc.) are modeled in scenarios, socialized with business units and executive leadership, and ratified before they change allocations, with clear communication of the impact on revenue and customer commitments.
- Operational demand planning function: Lead planners executing order commits, including Oversight over order scheduling and commit performance, including limiter management, time to schedule, order-commit preservation, fiscal-close scheduling controls such as scheduling blackout windows, and end-of-quarter execution, in partnership with Sales Operations, Customer Service and IT.
- KPIs and continuous improvement: Owns and institutionalizes demand KPIs, including forecast accuracy and bias, CDP coverage of UDP, time to schedule, and on-time delivery to scheduled ship date; runs monthly KPI reviews and quarterly metric reviews with recommendations; and drives business-unit accountability for forecast accuracy and bias.
- Transformation, automation and AI: Leads the demand organization’s role in Qualcomm’s advanced demand forecasting transformation (future-state demand process, demand-signal framework, business-unit planning inputs and forecasting-tool evaluation); partners with IT and planning-systems teams on automation, Kinaxis Maestro enhancements delivered through agile program-increment (PI) planning, and scalable, governed AI use cases that reduce tactical planner workload.
- Growth-business and strategic-customer demand: Brings demand for growth businesses and acquired businesses into the standard planning process, systems and executive reviews; supports strategic-customer forecasting; and partners with growth-program planning leads so units of measure, assumptions and priorities stay consistent across the enterprise plan.
- Executive analysis and escalations: Leads executive ad hoc analyses and escalations and supports governance activities such as internal audits of consolidated demand planning.
- Partnership and change leadership: Builds effective long-term relationships with business-unit operations leaders, Sales, Finance, Sourcing, Capacity Planning, Supply Planning, Master Data, Data Analytics and IT; brings partners along on process and policy change; and acts as a change agent as Global Planning moves toward more integrated, end-to-end planning.

Level of Responsibility:

- Works independently with no supervision; sets direction for a global organization led through other managers.
- Decisions directly shape the monthly constrained demand plan, wafer allocations and executive S&OP outcomes; errors may not surface until well after decisions are made and can affect revenue commitments, customer delivery and capacity investment.
- Accountable for setting and achieving the organization’s goals, KPIs, schedules and performance standards, and for operating within budget.
- Communicates complex, high-stakes information to executive audiences and large cross-functional groups; requires strong negotiation and influence.
- Has a significant degree of influence over key organizational decisions and makes or directly shapes decisions with organization-wide impact.
- Directs the resolution of highly complex, ambiguous business problems across functional and organizational lines.
- Develops and redesigns strategy for the function and influences long-term business plans and objectives.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :
$211,500.00 - $317,300.00

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