Director, Business Operations

Position Summary

The Director of Business Operations leads the strategic planning, business performance management, capacity strategy, investment governance, supply resiliency, and manufacturing readiness functions for ISG and AMG Business Units. Partners with Product marketers, Finance, Sales, Operations, and Supply Chain to optimize revenue growth, margin expansion, capital productivity, and operational execution while ensuring long-term capacity readiness and supply continuity.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Scenario Management

• Lead strategic, and long-range planning aligned to market opportunities, product roadmaps, technology transitions, and investment priorities.
• Develop business scenarios and integrated financial-operational models to evaluate growth opportunities, trade-offs, and business risks.
• Advise executive leadership on portfolio strategy, growth investments, network optimization, and risk mitigation.
• Partner with Supply Chain Planning to identify structural constraints, closure plans and establish planning assumptions.

Capacity Investment and Allocation Strategy

• Define long-range capacity and investment strategies that support growth, profitability, customer commitments, and technology roadmaps.
• Work with finance to develop and track investments to meet capex as a % of revenue model

Foundry, OSAT and Supplier Strategy

• Partner with Foundries, OSATs, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain to secure strategic capacity and improve supply resilience.
• Define supplier agreements, diversification initiatives, continuity planning, and long-range capacity strategies.
• Assess supplier capabilities, technology roadmaps, performance, and risk exposure while driving resolution of capacity and manufacturing constraints.

Product Ramp, Design and Manufacturing Readiness

• Partner across Product Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to align product roadmaps, qualifications, transfers, packaging, tooling, and test readiness with business objectives.
• Influence Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Test (DFT), and Design for Supply Chain (DFSC) decisions to improve manufacturability, scalability, cost, quality, and supply resilience.
• Oversee readiness reviews, identify risks early, and drive mitigation plans for major product introductions, technology transitions, and manufacturing transfers.

Inventory and Supply Governance

• Develop inventory strategy and oversee inventory across all stages and channels.
• Balance supply, customer commitments, inventory, and working capital.
• Manage shortages, excess inventory, and supply risks.

Margin Improvement and Leakage Management

• Quantify and mitigate revenue-at-risk resulting from capacity constraints, supply disruptions, qualification delays, material shortages, and execution gaps.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, and Product organizations to identify and improve margin from underutilized assets, BOM improvement, test time reductions, excess inventory, low-yield operations, and manufacturing inefficiencies.
• Establish governance mechanisms, performance metrics, and executive reviews to proactively track, escalate, and eliminate revenue, margin, inventory, and leakage across the value chain.

Customer Commitment & LTSA Strategy

• Lead long-term supply agreement (LTSA) and capacity reservation strategies that align customer demand commitments with capacity investments, supply continuity, and profitability objectives.
• Partner with Business Units, Sales, Finance, Legal, and Supply Chain to evaluate commercial terms, demand visibility, investment requirements, and risk-sharing mechanisms.
• Ensure customer commitments support revenue growth, capital efficiency, and long-term business resilience.

Digital Transformation & Analytics

• Develop advanced analytics by connecting product roadmaps, technology transitions, capacity requirements, manufacturing footprints changes, and long-range business plans.
• Drive adoption of automation, generative AI to increase organizational productivity and accelerate business responsiveness.

Organizational Leadership

• Lead and develop a global Business Operations and Capacity Planning organization.
• Build capabilities in strategic planning, scenario modeling, supply-risk management, analytics, AI, and executive communication.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership, fostering accountability, collaboration, and enterprise ownership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or a related field.
• MBA required.
• Significant leadership experience in semiconductor business operations, capacity or supply planning, manufacturing, or supply chain.
• Deep knowledge of wafer fabrication, probe, assembly, test, and finished-goods operations.
• Experience developing long-range capacity plans and evaluating foundry, OSAT, equipment, and investment alternatives.
• Proven cross-functional leadership, executive communication, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills in global, constrained-supply environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with foundry and OSAT strategy, supply agreements, supplier governance, and continuity planning.
• Knowledge of BOMs, yields, cycle times, package families, test platforms, NPI ramps, transfers, and manufacturing constraints.