Introduction to the job

Within Material Planning, you and your team drive the ambitious & reliable plan for make and buy items enabling our supply chain to deliver. Your role is to orchestrate the ASML supply chain, ensuring material availability for the Wilton factory and our customers. You understand and clarify demand dynamics towards your supplying parties, supporting your counterparts to meet the ASML growth path. In this position you will play an important role in the decision support process towards senior management.

As a people leader, you will lead a team of planning professionals to collectively deploy ASML's plans while collaborating extensively with other sector stakeholders.

Role and responsibilities

• Orchestrating and deploying the Wilton demand & supply cycle

• Material availability to secure system output and service events at our customers

• Balanced inventory levels to minimize excess & obsolescence (E&O)

• Deployment of planning signals by implementing and improving planning policies, methodologies and parameters 

• Successful implementation of improvements

• Leading a team of material planners

• Acting as a role model by living the ASML values, actively inviting feedback and taking care of wellbeing

• Coaching your team in their personal development goals and enabling them to perform

• Owning your content, developing a deep understanding of the ASML supply chain and end-to-end processes and building meaningful relationship with a range of stakeholders (eg demand planning departments, supplier facing departments, product lifecycle management, production planning)

• Reporting out on team and department performance and initiating and supporting improvement initiatives

Education and experience

• Bachelor or Masters degree

• Min 10 years of leadership experience in Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Sourcing or related function

• Good understanding of and experience with supply chain management processes, with focus on material/ supply planning

• Experience in leading and building diverse teams (>5 people)

• Structured problem solver with the ability to define and drive structural solutions.

• Experience with Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

• Generic understanding of different SAP solutions

Skills

• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated excellent leadership skills with the ability to manage a team and drive performance.

• Ability to drive results: Strong drive to succeed and improve results over time. Ability to understand complex situations, mobilize stakeholders and resources to make data-driven decisions, and execute with discipline.

• Comfortable working in complex, fast changing,  international environments

• People Management: Strong ability to attract, develop and retain talent. Can inspire and motivate the team to deliver high performance and continuously improve own results.

Other information

Planning and Delivery (P&D) combines all planning activities across ASML, bringing demand and supply perspectives closer together. P&D collaborates closely with business lines and sectors to connect requirements and priorities into an integrated business plan, while remaining clear on bottlenecks and real constraints, so we can stretch them to meet opportunities without becoming unrealistic. This allows P&D to become the unbiased, trusted partner that helps ASML to remain both ambitious and realistic in its business planning and capacity and increases our combined solution power to drive improvements. 

The P&D organization focuses on four key activities: 

• Planning, planning strategy and improvement 

• Integral demand and supply (0-3 year horizon) 

• Capacity preparation planning (>3 year horizon) 

• Delivery: freight, customs and warehousing 

Additional Responsibilities:

There is potential for exposure to strong magnetic fields, high voltage and currents.

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

Inclusion and diversity

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.

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