Planner/business Process Development Expert jobs at Applied Materials in United States, Austin

Responsibilities

• Build strong partnerships with HR and business leaders to understand organizational goals and talent priorities.
• Use data and insights to identify risks, opportunities, and proactive compensation actions.
• Design and execute scalable, globally aligned solutions for compensation challenges.
• Lead formal compensation processes and manage ad-hoc needs such as promotions, retention, and counter-offers.
• Provide tools, resources, and guidance to enable effective compensation decisions.
• Collaborate across the global Rewards team to share best practices and continuously improve.

Attributes for Success

• Strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Collaborative and solution-oriented, with the ability to influence and build trust.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving outcomes with urgency.
• Bold, creative, and committed to execution excellence.

7-10 years of experience including:

• Proven track record leading large-scale, complex compensation implementations across regions.
• Strong strategic advisory skills , partnering with HR and business leaders to deliver aligned solutions.
• Expertise in market analysis, pay equity, and data-driven decision-making .
• Skilled in global collaboration and navigating compliance requirements.
• Proficient with HRIS/compensation systems (e.g., Workday, SAP) and advanced Excel.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, Finance, or related field
• 7-10 years in compensation or rewards with experience in complex, global implementations .
• Advanced analytical and Excel skills ; proficiency with HRIS/compensation systems (Workday, SAP).
• Strong strategic thinking, collaboration, and influencing skills .
• Ability to navigate ambiguity , ensure compliance, and deliver scalable solutions.

Major Responsibilities

Post credit and debit memos as approved/needed.

Resolution of past due accounts.

Ad-hoc reporting & analysis.

Key Competencies

Ability to recognize escalation points to facilitate timely corrections of AR and revenue postings.

Strong attention to details and solid organizational skills.

SAP or large ERP system knowledge.

Strong understanding of accounts receivables transactions.

Excel (pivot tables with ability to summarize data in a meaningful way, vlookups) & analytical skills (Tableau user)

Ability to identify and / or outline recommendations that will address front-end issues and system processing issues that drive the Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) results.

Recommend and participate in improvements to the financial processes.

Education and Experience

Excel hands on experience.

SAP knowledge is aplus.

Finance/accounting degree.

2 - 4 years of experience in accounting or finance.

• Design, develop, and maintain impactful dashboards, reports, and analytics solutions using SQL, Tableau, and Python to support key business decisions.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders to understand evolving business needs, translate them into data requirements, and deliver actionable insights.
• Ensure accuracy, timeliness, and confidentiality of all BI assets by implementing robust data validation and governance controls.
• Build and optimize data pipelines and reporting frameworks, integrating data from multiple sources including data warehouses and cloud platforms.
• Lead efforts to improve reporting efficiency and usability through automation, exception reporting, and user-friendly design.
• Educate and support business users on accessing and interpreting dashboards and reports, fostering data literacy across teams.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve processes, reduce manual work, and enhance decision-making through data.
• Participate in the development of scalable BI infrastructure and contribute to data modeling and ETL design.
• Apply statistical learning, optimization techniques, and operations research methods to solve complex business problems.
• Support Agile project delivery using tools like JIRA , and contribute to sprint planning, backlog grooming, and cross-functional collaboration.

• Demonstrates strong conceptual and hands-on expertise in business intelligence, data visualization, and analytics.
• Proficient in SQL, Tableau, and Python ; experience with Databricks , Spark , and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) is a plus.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies , JIRA , and project tracking tools.
• Experience or education in Logistics, Supply Chain, or Industrial Engineering is strongly preferred.
• Solid foundation in statistical modeling , optimization , and operations research .

• Understands business strategy and how data can drive outcomes; able to align reporting solutions with organizational goals.

• Takes ownership of deliverables; mentors junior analysts and leads small projects with measurable impact.

• Solves complex data challenges with creativity and rigor; comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving requirements.

• Delivers insights that influence customer experience, operational efficiency, and strategic planning across teams.

• Communicates clearly and confidently with technical and non-technical stakeholders; builds consensus and drives alignment.

Key Responsibility:

• Conceptualize, develop and facilitate management and organizational development programs and initiatives in the US.
• Define and manage complexity of programs with multiple stakeholders including Business Leaders, HR Business Partners, TD team members, and other relevant HR stakeholders.
• Design innovative and state of the art learning solutions that change behavior and improve performance, velocity and scale.
• Utilize expert facilitation skills for delivering management and professional development interventions and programs across the organization.
• Has coaching abilities to support leader feedback (including but not limited to 360)
• Contribute to the thinking, practice, and dissemination of Talent Management Best Known Methods (BKMs) throughout the organization.

Skills, Experience, and Education:

• 10+ years of experience in organization development and/or management development
• Strategic and systems thinking; complex change management
• Demonstrate well-developed interpersonal skills, communication skills, and diplomacy, to successfully manage up and down the organization, with individuals at all levels
• Experience in a complex global company in a fast-paced environment preferred
• Instructional design with focus on designing management development solutions
• Effectively engage with leaders across the organization (including senior leader/ stakeholders). Effect outcomes through impactful influence.
• Combine a “consultative” mind-set/approach for diagnosis and development with an execution focus
• Experienced in TD program management including aligning multiple priorities, setting lead indicators and tracking progress in achieving objectives
• Experienced in using practical tools/models for leadership, management, organization, team, and talent improvement interventions and applying them at scale
• Global experience and mindset with flexibility to understand unique business/regional needs
• Able to work in a fast paced, intense, complex, global organization on multiple projects with a clear focus on execution and results
• Agile in ability to respond to changing organizational needs, adjusting resources and timelines
• Open-minded and curious to new perspectives and innovative strategies
• Bring a sense of urgency, energy and focus to achieving goals
• Patient and measured in response to challenges, collaborating effectively within and across

Program Overview

Through the 30-month Supply Chain Undergraduate Rotational Development Program, you will rotate through positions in Purchasing, Sourcing, and Commodity Management over the course of 18 months, then apply your learnings to a “final placement” role for an additional 12 months. In the program, participants develop and refine the technical and business skills required to be successful in the Supply Chain organization. You will experience a blended learning environment which includes mentorship, job shadowing, and expanded networking opportunities with leaders and within our Employee Resource Groups such as the Young Professionals Network (YPN). Participants will have the opportunity to gain high level visibility and create significant impact within a global manufacturing organization.

Position Details

During a series of rotations, participants will take on full-time responsibility of their functional role, which includes:

• Issuing RFQs, analyzing proposals, negotiating prices, executing orders, and ensuring delivery in support of volume manufacturing requirements.
• Developing strategies to procure components at the lowest cost consistent with consideration of quality, reliability of source, and urgency of need.
• Assisting with development, alignment, and implementation of commodity strategies across Applied Business Units.
• Driving resolution to systematic supply chain issues affecting quality, cost, delivery or lead-time.
• Assisting in developing and presenting high-level cost reduction opportunities.
• Presenting sourcing, cost, lead time reduction, capacity initiatives to key stakeholders.
• Forecasting and communicating engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers.
• Providing critical input to outsourcing decisions by performing Make vs. Buy analysis.

Requirements

• Graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Distribution, Industrial Engineering, Management Information Systems, Business Analytics or related field
• Good academic standing with a preferred GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale
• Proficiency in developing effective executive reports and presentations
• Proficiency in Microsoft office tools
• Excellent listening, writing, quantitative, qualitative and oral communication skills
• Ability to handle multiple assignments concurrently
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interactcross-organizationally
• Ability to problem-solve creatively and analytically
• Commitment to quality and customer satisfaction
• Detail-oriented; ability to multi-task; deadline-oriented
• Flexible and adaptable mindset
• Thrive in a results-driven culture
• Nice to have technical skills: Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, R, SAS, SQL, Python
• Commitment to completing the 30-month program before pursuing other roles within Applied

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please apply by October 31, 2025.Note: This position may close early based on application volume or candidate selection.

What We Offer

Salary:

Location:

Key Responsibilities

• Policy and Statutory
  • ​ Drives policy improvement to align with changing business needs, technology advancements and industry best practices.

• Process Delivery

  • ​ Drives end-to-end process alignment and integrity of the control environment.

  • Manages the products/tools organization uses/owns to delivery its processes and services.

  • Able to deliver multiple conflicting priorities

  • Actively uses benchmarking and performance metrics to understand the health of the organizational service delivery and identify improvement opportunities.

  • Networks to learn best practices and new approaches and new technology advancements.

  • Able to take ownership for escalations and drive for resolution.

  • Strong understands the controls and reasons for them, including risk implications, within the process and business rules.

  • Ensures and drives integrity of process controls.

  • Has a strong understanding of the design of the tools and systems the organization uses/owns to delivery its processes and services.

• Process Design, Build and Test

  • ​ Able to coordinate complex design and testing activities.

  • Able to drive design, build and test strategies.

  • Assesses end-to-end processes to evaluate integration points, process and policy controls, efficiency, roles and responsibilities, business objectives.

• Change & Project Management

  • Functions as change agent

  • Organizes operational sponsorship for the projects

  • Able to lead teams

  • Able to lead projects of higher complexity having moderate to large scope

  • Uses formal change management tools and method, including effective socialization.

  • Uses formal project management tools and method

  • Able to develop effective training materials.

  • Able to drive the implement new processes and policies.

  • Able to project influence within the organization to improve process alignment and performance.

  • Able to project influence to functions outside the organization to improve process alignment and performance.

• Decision Making

  • ​ Has Shared Services experience

  • Drives for advancement of the Shared Services Mission and Value with best in class company-wide process functions, enabled bystandardization,solid internal controls, and effective performance management

  • Foundation for Decision Making is Mastery of policy, Mastery of process (Reason for Processes, Marriage of Systems, Policy and Risk Management),

    Mastery or how to execute process.

  • Applies mastery to the problem and provides correct solution path

  • Effectively and actively uses performance metrics in the decision process.

  • Effectively and actively uses benchmarking in decision making.

  • Understands the effects of decisions on the stakeholders.

  • Effectively considers the needs of the stakeholders

• End User Support

  • ​ Clearly understands the Shared Services Mission and Purpose to the Company

  • Able to analyze trends and identify training needs.

  • Able to analyze trends and identify areas opportunities to reduce the necessity for inquiries.

  • Able to analyze trends and identify areas opportunities to improve self- service tools.

  • Able to improve support model design to meet changing needs of the stakeholders.

  • Understands technology and is able to leverage its ability to improve the end user support function.

Functional Knowledge

• Regarded as the technical expert in their particular field

• Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function

Business Expertise

• Anticipates business and regulatory issues; recommends product, process or service improvements

Leadership

• Leads projects with notable risk and complexity; develops the strategy for project execution

Problem Solving

• Solves unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business; requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop solutions

Impact

• Impacts the direction and resource allocation for program, project or services; works within general functional policies and industry guidelines

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt a different point of view

Global Fixed Assets Process Owner

Preferred Background

SAP ECC, w/Asset Accounting Module is a plus; LeaseCalcs, BlackLine, Microsoft Office; Tableau;

Fixed Asset Administration

• Oversee & own the management of the fixed asset accounting process, globally .
• Lead team of 4-6 contract personnel based in Bangalore, India, who execute transactions & review Capital Approval Requests for required information
• Understand and apply corporate policy related to fixed assets. Be the “voice” of Fixed Asset Policy;
• Manage and maintain the fixed assets subledger and related general ledger activity.
• Understand and collaborate closely with Tax on CHIPs credits and their application to assets on books;
• Understand government incentives programs such as Cal Competes and other capital driven subjects and effect on assets;
• Devise, document and oversee the development of standard processes, procedures and tools (automation). Partner with and influence other areas of Finance and Operations to follow said process and procedures.
• Monitor lifecycle events from project scoping and approval to asset retirement.
• Advise business units regarding fixed asset matters and issues.
• Provide monthly fixed assets and capital spending reporting as required by Global Accounting; support Balance sheet review requirements.
• Support Tax and other business units or departments in periodic reporting needs and initiatives impacting fixed assets & projects.
• Research and respond to fixed asset queries from all levels within the organization.
• Respond to requests for information from internal and external audit entities, including SOX walkthroughs.
• Deliver training to personnel outside of fixed asset team. Maintain libraries of guides and desktop procedures.

Fixed Asset – Income Tax related

• Review all asset additions to ensure proper tax treatment
• Prepare quarterly asset related provision schedules
• Prepare fixed asset related schedules for federal tax return

Lease Accounting Administration:

• Manage Lease bots
• Prepare Lease disclosure supporting documents
• Update critical data in LeaseCalcs
• Manage equipment and housing leases for Europe and Japan
• Coordinate & support Corporate Accounting lease accounting owner

Property Tax:

• Manage relationship with third party providers (Ryan & Co.)
• Provide supporting data as needed

Program Overview

Through the 30-month Supply Chain MBA Development Rotational Program, you will rotate through positions in Purchasing, Sourcing, and Commodity Management over the course of 18 months, then apply your learnings to a “final placement” role for an additional 12 months. In the program, participants develop and refine the technical and business skills required to be successful in the Supply Chain organization. You will experience a blended learning environment which includes mentorship, job shadowing, and expanded networking opportunities with leaders and within our Employee Resource Groups such as the Young Professionals Network (YPN). Participants will have the opportunity to gain high level visibility and create significant impact within a global manufacturing organization.

Position Details

During a series of rotations, participants will take on full-time responsibility of their functional role, which includes:

• Forecasts and communicates engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers. Provides input to outsourcing decisions by performing make versus buy analysis. Coordinates demand signals through MRP to minimize inventory exposure.
• Coordinates product development process deliverables through matrix management of buyers, planners, and production control. Collaborates with engineering team to interpret engineering requirements.
• Assists in supplier price and delivery negotiations. Utilizes the preferred supplier selection and assessment process when selecting suppliers. Completes supplier risk assessment on critical and unique parts. Monitors supplier performance (delivery, quality, andcost).
• Manages materials change control process. Meets cost objectives and resolves quality issues. Generates and publishes Key Process Indicators. Tracks total landed costs targets.
• Works with engineering to identify preliminary critical parts, long-lead parts and inspection requirements. Assists in developing supplier and commodity road maps to engineering.
• Actively mediates and partners with quality and engineering teams to resolve supplier quality issues for assigned product groups. Escalate issues to relevant escalation paths as needed (Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Technical Program Management, Finance).
• Use standard tools, dashboards and BKMs to assess supplier capability, overall capacity, ability to support rapid prototyping (NPI), ability to support volume manufacturing, and vertical integration (e.g. parts, cleaning, assembly capabilities) to aid in making sustainable sourcing decisions.

Requirements

• Graduating with an MBA in Supply Chain Management coupled with technical undergraduate degree
• Must be in good academic standing with a preferred GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale
• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view
• Ability to exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technology exposure required. Hands on experience preferred
• Data analytics (E.g. advanced excel, working with multiple data sets for decision making)
• Ability to interpret engineering drawingspecifications/requirementsto source parts aligning with sourcing strategy and Supplier capabilities.
• Previous experience in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing, Project Management a plus
• Certifications: Six sigma green belt, APICS CPIM, APICS CSCP, PMP a plus
• Flexible and adaptable mindset who thrives in a results-driven culture
• Commitment to completing the 30-month program before pursuing other roles within Applied

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Please apply by October 31, 2025. Note: This position may close early based on application volume or candidate selection.