Senior Manager Wafer Test Planning

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Your steady execution, creative problem solving, and commitment to quality create a foundation that allows innovation to happen and success to grow.

As a Senior Manager Wafer Test Planning on our Corporate Functions team, you ensure processes run efficiently, you bring clarity, and dependable support to the heart of the company.

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Your role Key responsibilities in your new role

• Lead and develop the Frontend Wafer Test Planning (WTP) team, ensuring capabilities and competencies are in place to drive a high-performance and collaborative culture.
• Own consolidate and lead Front end Wafer Test Planning (WTP) execution end-to-end.
• Ensuring sufficient wafer test capacity is allocated for both In-house and External Wafer Manufacturing (EWM) to meet short- (PP), mid - (VRFC) and long-term (Min Max) demand.
• Lead the cross-functional resolution of critical Wafer Test capacity and supply-demand imbalances, providing rapid, fact-based recommendations and decision support during operational escalations while ensuring alignment with long-term strategic objectives.
• Translate Long-Term / Min Max planning results into strategic recommendations for the optimized (Long term) Target Cost Road map (L)TCR and Wafer Test manufacturing strategy e.g. area assessments, tester migrations and Make or Buy considerations for in-house capacity extension proposals and external test houses.
• Act as key interface for Wafer Test related topics to Divisions, Frontend sites, EWM, TTI, Finance, PROC, and senior management
• Drive continuous improvement of our Wafer Test planning processes e.g. by automation of processes, models, and tools to establish data-driven decision-making

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

• A degree in Business Administration, Engineering or a comparable field
• Extensive professional experience (10+ years) in Front end planning, Wafer Test, semiconductor operations, or digital transformation including leadership responsibility
• Deep expertise in Wafer Test planning (demand, capacity, cost, investment logic) and semiconductor manufacturing processes
• Strong, pro-active communication & influencing skills at senior management level
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills, with the ability to translate complex data into business decisions, paired with a hands‑on, solution‑oriented approach to resolving urgent operational challenges, capacity constraints, and business escalations
• Experience in leading cross-functional and international teams & stakeholders
• Good understanding of planning tools, data models, digitalization approaches
• Fluency in English

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