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Spares Planner (Program Manager) (# 112101, 112103)

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 05:05 PM PST

Position: Spares Planner (Program Manager)
Location: Milpitas, CA
Duration: Full time

Job Description:
Business Unit:
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:
A Spares Planner owns the planning of all spare parts during the product life cycle for his/her product lines. The Spares Planner acts as the internal business manager balancing the requirements of meeting target service levels throughout the product life cycle with the mix, level and velocity of inventory while balancing the risk of inventory excess and obsolescence.
  
The Spares Planner works closely with Sales/Marketing, Procurement and Engineering to anticipate changes in installed base, technology/reliability/quality issues, demand patterns, and customer entitlement. The Spares Planner owns the Target Stocking Levels and is responsible for applying excellent judgment and expertise to make necessary plan changes. The Spares Planner is responsible for creating new ways to optimize the spares stocking strategy and works with the supply chain team and manufacturing to identify opportunities for inventory reductions while maintaining customer service levels.

He/she is responsible for analyzing and reporting performance versus plan, modeling/simulating system changes, acts independently to edit inputs into our planning system, and owning the resultant plan for thousands of parts and multimillion dollars of inventory. Working technical knowledge of inspection and metrology tools is also needed to understand technical and sourcing impacts on the supply chain.        

Preferred Qualification:
Experience: 2 years of experience in a high-tech supply chain environment preferably working in Product Life Cycle management

Skills: Must have excellent written and oral communications skills and be comfortable presenting to internal and external customers. Excellent analytical and problem solving skills are a must. Experience with MS-Access and other database management software is essential. Programming skills would be a plus.

Minimum Qualifications:
BS/BA Business or related field with preferred concentration in Operations or Supply Chain Management (MS/MBA preferred a plus).

Kindly send your resume to raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com

KLA-Tencor is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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