Position: Strategic Planning Analyst
Location: Milpitas, CA
Duration: Full time
Job Description:
The Global Service Support Organization (GSS) team headquartered in Milpitas, CA is our service organization that consists of Service Sales and Marketing, Spares Supply Chain management, Field Operations, Product Training, and Technical Support. The GSS organization partners with our field teams and customers in all business sectors to maintain the high performance and productivity of our products through a flexible portfolio of services. Our comprehensive services include: proactive management of tools to identify and improve performance; expertise in optics, image processing and motion control with worldwide service engineers, 24/7 technical support teams and knowledge management systems; and an extensive parts network to ensure worldwide availability of parts..
Responsibilities:
This position supports the Strategic Planning Manager in data analysis and modeling activities for KLA-Tencor’s service supply chain strategy
• Support strategy activities related to spares planning and inventory management.
• Perform planning system maintenance activities: monthly updates, data refresh, troubleshooting.
• Oversee all modeling and parameter testing as well as investigating new ways to optimize the forecasting process
• Model changes to strategic business rules and present results to management.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, product support, logistics, procurement, marketing, sales, etc in problem framing and cost/benefit modeling of alternatives.
• Work closely with product line planners and regional analysts, understanding fill rate performance issues and making appropriate changes in planning system.
• Communicate findings to senior management and partner with stakeholders to drive adoption of recommendations, policies or tools.
Preferred Qualifications:
• In-depth business process knowledge of high-tech capital equipment industry is a plus
• Experience with spares planning software
• Experience with MCA Solutions software (SPO and Tactics)
• SAP experienced user
• Experience in the role of business process analyst is a plus
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 3 years of experience.
OR
Master's Level Degree with at least 2 years of experience.
- B.S. Computer Science, Statistics, Industrial engineering or related technical field.
- 4 years of relevant work experience, applying analytics to solve business problems in analytic/strategic consulting or high tech operations roles
- High proficiency in MS Access
- Good analytical and problem solving skills
- Should have excellent oral and written communication
Kindly send your resume to raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com