Material Planner

Material Planner

As a material planner, you set the stable & reliable 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.

Role and Responsibilities

You are responsible for:

Securing material availability to secure system output 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)

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

Deploying planning signals by:

• Optimizing planning parameters
• Deciding on and implementing best planning policy (e.g., manual planning versus MRP)
• Improving planning policies and methodologies (e.g., new demand leveling method)

Education and Experience

• Relevant Bachelor or Master in: Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, or Business Administration
• Good understanding of and experience with supply chain management processes, with a focus on supply/material planning
• Experience, minimum 7 years, with S&OP as well as Master Production Schedule and Production Planning
• Relevant experience with SAP software solutions such as SAP ERP, SAP IBP, SAP APO, and SAP HANA
• Experience in setting up and leading projects successfully

Skills

• Ability to deal with pressure and changing requirements
• Ability to plan and set priorities
• Drive change/project management
• Ability to make deep-dive analyses whilst maintaining top-level overview
• Capable of building strong stakeholder relationships and resolving issues collaboratively
• Presentation skills, translating complexity to understandable storyline
• Drive for continuous improvement of processes

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.