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About the Role

The Supply Chain Planning Analyst supports integrated demand, supply, capacity, and inventory planning within a complex semiconductor equipment manufacturing environment. The role translates business requirements into planning insight, identifies supply–demand risk, facilitates cross-functional alignment, and drives planning decisions through structured analysis and scenario evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Support supply response planning across multiple product families and planning horizons.
• Analyze material, capacity, inventory, and supplier constraints.
• Identify supply–demand gaps and develop mitigation recommendations.
• Develop constrained and unconstrained supply scenarios.
• Participate in monthly and quarterly planning cycles, including S&OP / IBP reviews.
• Ensure planning assumptions, risks, and opportunities are clearly documented.
• Analyze forecast, build plan, inventory, capacity, and supplier performance data.
• Generate actionable insight for planners, operations leaders, and management teams.
• Conduct root cause analysis on forecast misses, shortages, and planning variances.
• Build executive-ready summaries, dashboards, and presentations.
• Develop business cases and recommendations supported by quantitative analysis.
• Partner with Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Manufacturing, Procurement, Product Management, and Business Units.
• Coordinate planning inputs and assumptions across stakeholders.
• Facilitate issue resolution for material shortages and capacity risk.
• Drive accountability for planning actions and follow-up activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives within planning processes.
• Assist in standardizing planning methodology, metrics, and governance.
• Identify opportunities for automation and workflow simplification.
• Contribute to adoption and enhancement of SAP IBP capabilities.
• Maintain planning data quality and system integrity.
• Support master data validation and planning model improvements.
• Perform planning analysis using SAP IBP, SAP ERP, Excel, and Power BI.
• Assist in user testing and deployment of planning process enhancements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning, Demand Planning, Production Planning, Operations Planning, or Integrated Business Planning.
• Strong understanding of demand planning, supply planning, capacity planning, and inventory management.
• Practical experience operating within an S&OP / IBP process.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing operations and supplier collaboration.
• Experience in complex, multi-level BOM manufacturing environments.
• Structured problem solving, root cause analysis, and scenario modeling capability.
• Clear written and verbal communication; ability to influence across functions without direct authority.
• Semiconductor equipment, semiconductor manufacturing, high-tech, or capital equipment industry experience.
• Preferred APICS CPIM, CSCP, or equivalent certification.
• Exposure to SQL or other query tools for planning data analysis.
• Experience supporting planning system implementations or process redesign.
• Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, or similar reporting tools.

Skills

• SAP IBP
• SAP ERP
• Excel
• Power BI
• SAP ECC
• S/4HANA
• SQL
• Tableau

Location

• Austin, TX

Work Type

• Full time
• Assignee / Regular

Experience Level

• 5+ years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree

Salary/Compensations

• $108,000.00 - $148,500.00

Benefits

• Supportive work culture
• Opportunities for learning, development, and career growth
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Eligibility for bonus and stock award program
• Health and wellbeing programs

About the Company

• Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world.
• We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips.
• Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT.
• The JOLT Program Management Office & Operations Product Development team drives technology, business processes, and strategic innovation supporting Applied Materials Global Operations.

Equal Opportunity

• Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
• Applied endeavors to make our careers site accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us via e-mail at Accommodations_Program@amat.com, or by calling our HR Direct Help Line at 877-612-7547, option 1, and following the prompts to speak to an HR Advisor. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.