Silicon Wafer Planning Manager
Cisco · Holmdel, United States +2 · 1d ago
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Meet the Team
The Silicon Wafer Supply Planner is responsible for ensuring the availability of wafer and die supply to support manufacturing requirements and customer demand. This role translates demand forecasts into wafer requirements, manages supply plans with foundry and semiconductor partners, identifies capacity and material constraints, and drives mitigation strategies to protect customer commitments.
The planner operates in a highly constrained, long-lead-time semiconductor environment where demand can exceed available capacity. Success requires strong analytical skills, disciplined planning, supplier coordination, and the ability to balance customer demand, inventory, capacity, yield, lead time, and supply risk.
Your Impact
Lead end-to-end wafer and die supply planning by translating finished-goods forecasts and production demands into foundry start schedules, inventory targets, and safety-stock strategies. This role actively manages foundry capacity, yield, cycle times, and upstream supplier performance to proactively identify shortages, execute allocation priorities across cross-functional leadership, and lead scenario/recovery planning to ensure continuous supply assurance and transparent delivery commits.
Minimum Qualifications:
- · Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline preferred, with 3–7+ years of experience in semiconductor planning, wafer planning, material planning, production planning, or supply-chain management.
- · Experience working with semiconductor foundries, wafer fabrication, die supply, OSATs, optical components, or other long-cycle-time manufacturing environments is strongly preferred.
- have a strong understanding of MRP/ERP systems, supply-demand balancing, inventory management, capacity planning, and advanced Excel or analytical tools.
Preferred Qualifications:
- · Demonstrated experience operating in constrained and allocation-driven supply environments.
- · Experience working with contract manufacturers and outsourced manufacturing models.
- · Strong analytical capability and ability to convert complex supply-chain information into executive-level decisions.
- · Proven ability to influence Sales, Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Finance, suppliers, and senior leadership.
- · Have the capacity to see and articulate a vision that inspires change!
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
The starting salary range posted for this position is $130,100.00 to $164,800.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$130,100.00 - $189,600.00Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$116,800.00 - $170,100.00* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.