Demand Planning Director, Supply Chain Management

Oracle Corporation • Santa Clara, CA, United States, US • 1h ago

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a strategic and execution-focused Demand Planning Director to lead platform planning across Compute, Storage, and Networking rack infrastructure supporting Oracle’s rapidly expanding global cloud footprint. This role is responsible for driving platform level rack plans to our suppliers that align with OCI business growth, data center expansion, and supply chain execution.

The Demand Planning Director will serve as a key leader bridging business demand, engineering, the material and execution, and data center capacity planning. The ideal candidate will have experience in consensus planning, and product lifecycle management with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, manufacturing, finance, sales, and manufacturing.

This role will play a critical part in scaling OCI’s next-generation infrastructure, including CPU, AI/GPU platforms, networking systems, and large-scale cloud deployments.

Internal Responsibilities

Demand Planning

Lead platform planning for OCI Compute, Storage, and Networking racks across global manufacturing and deployment locations.

Derive and maintain a consolidated consensus demand plan that aligns to the overall OCI business objectives.

Translate demand forecasts into executable supply and manufacturing plans across all contract manufacturers.

Lead demand planning discussions across capacity and finance teams as well as supply base. Develop scalable planning models for compute, GPU, networking, and storage platforms.

Ensure successful ramp, transition, and lifecycle management of new hardware technologies and platforms.

Buffer & Supply Strategy

Define and manage warehouse inventory buffer strategies to balance supply continuity, deployment readiness, and inventory risk.

Drive planning signals to suppliers and manufacturing partners by region and manufacturing location to support global deployment requirements.

In conjunction with contract manufacturers and SCO manufacturing develop materials buffering and capacity strategies for risk mitigation.

Strategic Planning

Coordinate cross-functional activities between Product Development, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Data Center Delivery teams.

Partner with Capacity Planning, Sales, Data Center teams, and Finance to align on long-range infrastructure planning for OCI hardware across all OCI business units.

Planning Governance & Systems