Staff Business Planning Specialist

Company Description

Renesas is seeking a Staff Business Planning Specialist to support our fast-growing Performance Computing Power business. Serving as the central pivot between Sales, Operations, NPI, Marketing, and Finance, you will manage day-to-day planning activities to optimize revenue, maximize margins, and drive customer satisfaction across assigned product lines.

This role directly supports the high-demand AI infrastructure market, requiring sharp supply planning instincts and strong customer support acumen. You will own the end-to-end supply chain planning lifecycle—from wafer start to finished goods—driving forecast improvements, proactively mitigating supply risks, and resolving customer escalations. In this fast-paced position, your execution will directly ensure that product availability keeps pace with the intense, next-generation compute demands of our customers.

Job Description

What You Will Do

Demand Planning, Revenue & Forecasting

• Revenue Goals: Ensure management revenue goals are achieved each quarter through close communication with the Product Line Manager and Sales.
• Forecast Ownership: Own the monthly revenue forecast, accounting for demand, supply, projected orders, and financial adjustments.
• Capacity Planning: Generate and enter ship demand/build plan forecasts into the forecasting database for supply chain and operations capacity planning.
• Strategic Planning: Support the business unit in building bottom-up forecasts for Annual, Mid-Term, and Long-Term Operating Plans (AOP/MTP/LTP).
• Financial Alignment: Partner with Finance and Revenue Accounting to manage margin, pricing, and quarterly accruals. Collaborate with Tactical Marketing to ensure quoted pricing aligns with revenue plans.

Supply & Escalation Management

• Issue Resolution: Resolve escalations and manage product allocations in coordination with Sales, Customer Service, Manufacturing, and Planning.
• Backlog Reviews: Own weekly backlog-versus-shipment reviews; proactively identify supply gaps or constraints before they impact customers or cause revenue plan issues.
• Risk Mitigation: Manage monthly demand/supply plan reviews to mitigate revenue and customer support risks within the planning horizon.
• Factory Execution: Determine wafer start requirements for all products in the line and work with Planning to ensure timely wafer order placement.
• Material Planning: Collaborate with Product Line Managers and Marketing to review medium-to-long term plans to ensure material is planned in support of Product Line revenue goals.

Data Analysis & Reporting

• Inventory Management: Manage channel inventory weeks, owned days of inventory, and excess/obsolete inventory in line with corporate guidance.
• Data-Driven Insights: Own daily, weekly, and monthly analysis of demand, supply, historical data, and competitive factors, making strategic recommendations to management.
• Leadership Presentations: Prepare and present monthly product line status updates to Product Line Management for senior leadership reviews.
• Channel Alignment: Analyze monthly sales and product line forecasts to ensure alignment, collaborating with distributors and sales to book orders based on lead times.
• Detail Forecasting: Build and maintain bottoms-up short- and long-term demand forecasts at the detail level alongside product line marketing.

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience

• Education: BS Degree required.
• Experience: 10+ years of business experience within the semiconductor industry, specifically in supply chain planning, forecasting, analysis, and management support.
• Supply Chain Mastery: Demonstrated track record of managing complex forecasting through OEM, CM, and Distributor channels.
• Technical Skills: Data analysis experience with advanced/expert proficiency in Microsoft Excel and general Microsoft Office applications.
• Soft Skills: Strong leadership, people management, and influencing skills with the ability to solve complex problems and navigate working relationships.

Desired Attributes

• Market Knowledge: Experience with Cloud Provider/Server Market planning is highly preferred.
• Work Style: Self-starter with a positive attitude, a strong sense of urgency, and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Shape Your Future with Us.  

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