Introduction to the job

Would you like to create the plan that impacts the operation of all ASML factories and our customers worldwide as well as more than 100 supply chains? Do you get energy from solving complex planning puzzles? Are you capable of managing diverse and senior stakeholders? Then we have an excellent opportunity for you in the ASML Planning & Delivery department!

Role and responsibilities

As a Business Planner, you set the plan for materials supplied by external parties and internal factories, enabling our supply chain to deliver, while balancing availability and inventory in line with business objectives. You are the orchestrator of the ASML supply chain, ensuring material availability for our factories and our customers. You understand and clarify demand dynamics towards your supplying parties, supporting your counterparts to meet the ASML growth path.

Further, you are responsible for:

• Securing material availability for factory outputs and service events at our customers:

• Providing a stable and reliable plan to our suppliers and module factories

• Creating Demand & Supply (D&S) overviews for materials (0-24 month horizon)

• Driving D&S gap closure actions and monitoring plan execution on a weekly basis

• Driving decision-making on investment scenarios for capacity increases (1-3 year horizon)

• Managing inventory levels to reduce the risk of excess & obsolescence (E&O):

• Taking decision on buffer strategies

• Making inventory projections and E&O risk assessments

• Actively resolving inefficient and over planned inventory risks

• Overseeing planning inputs by

• Optimizing planning parameters

• Deciding on and implementing best planning policy (eg manual planning versus MRP)

• Improving planning policies and methodologies (eg new demand leveling method)

• Driving continuous improvement

• Collaborating closely with demand planning departments, supplier-facing departments, product lifecycle management and production planning to reach agreement on the supply plan and D&S gap closure actions

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree preferred. (e.g., Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering or Business Administration).
• 5+ years of experience in demand planning or managing demand supply processes
• Experience with S&OP as well as Master Production Schedule or Production Planning
• Relevant experience with SAP software solutions

Skills:

Working at the cutting edge of tech, you'll always have new challenges and new problems to solve - and working together is the only way to do that. You won't work in a silo. Instead, you'll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you'll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You'll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems.
To thrive in this job, you'll need the following skills:

• Ability to be flexible with changing requirements

• Ability to translate & connect tactical & strategic decisions

• Capable of building strong stakeholder relationships

• Presentation skills, translating complexity to understandable storyline

• Proactive attitude, eager to learn

• Drive for continuous improvement of processes

• Professional communication in English, both verbal and written

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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