Material Planning Manager

Responsibilities

Drive Supply Chain Excellence at the Heart of Global Innovation

At MaxLinear, breakthrough technology starts with exceptional execution. We are seeking a highly motivated Material Planning Manager to play a pivotal role in ensuring the right materials are available at the right time to support our global business and customers.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role for a supply chain professional who thrives on solving complex challenges, influencing decisions across functions, and driving operational excellence. You will serve as a key partner to teams across Planning, Procurement, Operations, Manufacturing, and Business Management, helping shape supply strategies that enable business growth and customer success.

If you enjoy turning data into action, navigating ambiguity, and making decisions that influence a global supply chain, this role offers an exciting opportunity to make a visible impact.

OSAT Operations Management

• Manage operational relationships with OSAT partners
• Maintain strong supplier relationships through regular meetings, business reviews, and onsite visits.
• Coordinate operational activities and drive issue resolution between suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Support supplier performance management, escalation handling, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Production Planning & Capacity Management

• Develop and communicate weekly loading plans covering bump, assembly, and final test operations.
• Coordinate production schedules and monitor supplier execution against commitments.
• Obtain and track supplier capacity reservations and commitments.
• Monitor loading versus capacity and identify potential bottlenecks.
• Consolidate holiday shutdown schedules and evaluate supply impact.

Material Planning, Forecast Management & Inventory Management

• Consolidate and communicate monthly forecasts to OSAT partners.
• Review material supply requirements and provide ordering instructions to OSAT suppliers.
• Ensure timely material procurement and delivery scheduling to support production requirements.
• Obtain supplier capacity commitments and monitor fulfillment.
• Monitor aged wafers, raw materials, WIP, and hold lots at OSAT sites.
• Coordinate disposition reviews with Engineering and Operations teams.
• Drive corrective actions to minimize excess, obsolete, and aging inventory.
• Coordinate inventory reconciliation activities with OSAT suppliers on a quarterly basis.
• Analyze inventory discrepancies and drive corrective actions with internal stakeholders.

Material Planning & Inventory Management

• Monitor material availability and delivery schedules to support production.
• Manage aging inventory including wafers, substrates, raw materials, and hold lots.
• Consolidate inventory liability and buyback information from suppliers and planners.
• Perform inventory analysis and develop buyback recommendations.
• Process buyback purchase requests and monitor execution.
• Support inventory disposition planning and risk reduction initiatives.

Supplier Performance Management

• Coordinate OSAT QBR scorecards and performance evaluations.
• Track supplier operational metrics and service levels.
• Monitor builds hit rates, throughput performance, and forecast accuracy.
• Drive improvement actions with suppliers to improve operational efficiency.

Supply Chain Risk Management

• Maintain weekly SBS and line-fill risk reports.
• Analyze supply constraints, material shortages, and capacity risks.
• Identify potential impacts to revenue and customer commitments.
• Develop mitigation plans with suppliers and internal teams.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Expertise in semiconductor supply chain
• Experience in a manufacturing environment
• Strong organizational skills and high attention to detail
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced semiconductor environment.
• Good risk management and mitigation agility
• Experience with an ERP based inventory program
• Solid Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Microsoft Dynamic AX experience
• Bachelor’s Degree +10 years of minimum experience

Experience

• 10+ years of semiconductor supply chain, planning, procurement, or OSAT operations experience.
• Experience working with outsourced assembly and test suppliers.
• Strong existing professional relationships with fabs and OSATs
• Experience in demand planning, capacity planning, material planning, and inventory management.
• Good negotiating skills

Company Overview

MaxLinear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, striving to improve the world’s communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.

We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world’s most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.

MaxLinear began by developing the world’s first high-performance TV tuner chip using standard CMOS process technology. Others said we couldn’t achieve the extremely high-performance requirements using CMOS, but we proved them wrong and achieved enduring global market leadership with our designs. Since then, we’ve developed a full line of products that drive 4G and 5G infrastructure; enable data center, metro and long-haul optical interconnects; bring 10Gbit to the home; power the IoT revolution; and enable robust and reliable communication in harsh industrial environments. Over the years, we’ve expanded through organic growth and through several acquisitions that have perfectly complemented our existing portfolio and enabled us to deliver complete end-to-end solutions in our target markets. One such example was the acquisition of Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division that added Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Broadband Gateway Processor SoC technology to our connected home portfolio creating a complete and scalable platform of connectivity and access solutions to fully address our customers’ needs.

Our headquarters are in Carlsbad, near San Diego, California. We also have major design centers in Irvine and San Jose, California; Waltham, Massachusetts; Vancouver, Canada; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore and Chennai, India; Villach, Austria; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.

We have approximately 1,500 employees, a substantial majority of whom have engineering degrees and include masters and Ph.D. graduates from many of the premiere universities around the world. Our employees thrive on innovation, outstanding execution, outside-the-box thinking, nimbleness, and collaboration. Together, we form a high-energy business team that is focused on building the best and most innovative products on the market.