Program Management Specialist - Staff (Tijuana)

NPI Program Analyst, Spec/Staff

Responsibilities

• Understand the overall product lifecycle as well as the requirements to meet each key milestone.
• Generate build plans based on demand gathered from cross‑functional engineering and business teams. Drive these build plans with suppliers over the course of the NPI lifecycle to meet demand.
• Identify material and hardware requirements and work with suppliers in ensuring BOMs are procured with consideration to lead time.
• Communicate build requests to suppliers in a timely and accurate fashion. Track and expedite material & WIP at suppliers as needed to ensure the program deadlines are met.
• Create purchase requisitions, track PO approval status, monitor build progress, and communicate status back to the PM's and Chip/Chipset teams.
• Monitor critical program milestones, test HW/SW release dates, product revisions, and quality issues, communicate to suppliers as needed and minimize the impact to the overall program schedule.
• Lead Operations meetings with Program Management and other engineering & business cross‑functional teams to review the status of the program and coordinate seamless planning and execution with key stakeholders.
• Identify critical paths and analyze potential changes to the program. Communicate this to the core team along with proposed mitigation and contingency plans.
• Troubleshoot supplier issues and help develop alternative schedules, milestones, processes etc. to resolve supply issues.
• Work with production teams in ensuring a smooth transition from NPI to production.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Operations, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field
• 3+ years of Supply Chain, Product Planning, or related work experience.
• Fluent in conversational and business English.
• US Visa preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters, Business Administration and/or industrial & production Engineering.
• Ability to collaborate and work well in a team environment.
• Ability to give and receive instruction and possess strong attention to detail.
• Adaptability to a challenging and changing environment
• Semiconductor end to end process background with a technical understanding of front end wafer fabrication, sort, assembly, and test process preferred.
• Industry or academic experience in operations/supply chain planning.
• Experience with MS office programs (particularly excel) required.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Strong decision making and comfort in making sound data‑based recommendations.
• Self‑starter with the ability to work with mínimal supervision.