Product owner operational planning

Introduction to the job

As the supply planning product owner you are the business partner for supply chain planning that connects with the Agile solutions team.

Within this role, you are the business representative for the products and services that the DevOps team delivers. You contribute to defining, and to guard the product vision.

Your team delivers process maturity and tooling improvements that enables ASML to increase its supply chain performance. Together with your stakeholders in business and IT, you help to define the strategy and product roadmap for planning. Within the safe agile framework, you ensure that solutions are delivered through quarterly increments and bi-weekly sprints.

Role and responsibilities

The supply chain planning product owner leads the agile material planning scrum teams, and is responsible for developing the new planning solutions for supply chain planning and the operational support on these solutions.

With the DevOps team, you deliver high quality processes and tools, based on an agreed planning improvement roadmap.

The main focus area of your job is the operational planning layer (material planning, but you also contribute to the integration with other domains such as tactical planning and buffer management.

You are closely connected to the business, and are actively engaged with the delegate business owners in planning. As the product owner, you will be functionality responsible for the solution which means that you:

• Deliver (IT) planning solutions with the DevOps scrum team in line with planning improvement roadmaps.
• Align planning solutions and dependencies x-sector, with interfaces across SCM and operations
• Set priorities on behalf of the business on as part of the quarter increment planning, and maintain the team’s backlog and provide guidance to the team.
• Actively participate in the relevant agile/scrum rituals
• Build an active relationship with your stakeholders, to understand business needs and plan the work based on business priorities.
• Define the product vision together with, and based on stakeholders requirements, and develop the roadmap for the product.

Education and experience

• Master’s or Bachelor degree, preferably in supply chain management or industrial engineering.
• 5-7 years relevant work experiences within supply chain management
• Experience with SAP IBP/ Kinaxis / S4 HANA and/or advanced planning solutions.
• Experience in planning processes in a high tech low-volume environment is a pre
• Experience as product owner in an agile environment is a pre

Skills

• Lead in structure, prioritization, decisiveness.
• Strong communicator, while sensitive to stakeholder field.
• Remain persistent until the goal has been reached.
• Collaborator, able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus.
• Demonstrate effective, constructive cooperation in cross-sector teams.
• Handle conflicts & set priorities, while aware of subcultures.
• Show critical sense.

Diversity and inclusion

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 diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

About Us

ASML is a leading supplier of lithography equipment, used by the world’s top chipmakers to print microchips that are increasingly powerful, fast and energy efficient. Working at ASML is inspiring, no matter what field you're in. That’s because we push the boundaries of technology: if it’s moving the world forward, chances are, we’re behind it. In fact, we’re probably a part of the electronic device you’re using right now.

We’re a global team of more than 32,000 people from 122 different nationalities and counting. Headquartered in Europe’s top tech hub, the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands, our operations are spread across Europe, Asia and the US.