Senior Director, S&OP

The Senior Director, S&OP is responsible for leading and continuously maturing the enterprise Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and driving its evolution toward Integrated Business Planning (IBP) across the organization. This role owns the end-to-end monthly planning cycle – product/portfolio review, demand review, supply review, pre-S&OP, and executive S&OP – ensuring a single, aligned operating plan that connects strategy, demand, supply, and financial outcomes.

This leader partners closely with Commercial, Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Planning, and Business Unit leadership to balance demand and supply, resolve cross-functional trade-offs, and surface risks and opportunities to the executive team in time to act. The role is also the organization's principal change agent for planning transformation, responsible for driving adoption of new processes, tools, and ways of working across a global, matrixed organization.

Given the complexity, volatility, and cyclicality of the semiconductor materials market, this role requires deep experience balancing long lead-time, capacity-constrained supply with volatile customer demand, and a proven ability to lead organizations through significant process and behavioral change.

Required

• →Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations Management, or related field.

• →12+ years of progressive leadership experience in Sales & Operations Planning, Integrated Business Planning, demand/supply planning, or supply chain strategy.

• →Demonstrated experience designing, leading, and maturing S&OP or IBP processes in a complex, multi-site, global organization.

• →Proven track record leading large-scale change management and process transformation initiatives, including stakeholder alignment and organizational adoption.

• →Strong executive presence with the ability to present complex trade-offs and influence senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

• →Deep understanding of demand/supply balancing, financial integration, and scenario-based decision making.

Preferred

• →Experience in the semiconductor or semiconductor materials industry, with an understanding of long lead-time capacity constraints, high-mix/high-volume environments, and cyclical demand patterns.

• →Master's degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field.

• →APICS/ASCM certification (CSCP, CPIM) or Oliver Wight IBP training/certification.

• →Hands-on experience with SAP ECC/IBP or comparable advanced planning systems.

• →Change management certification or formal training (e.g., Prosci) strongly preferred.

• →Experience directly leading a Demand Planning organization (statistical forecasting, consensus demand process, forecast governance) is a plus.