Chief Supply Chain Officer — Interim, Semiconductor Components

The mandate

The organisation requires strategic leadership to navigate geopolitical supply constraints, optimise inventory across constrained die and superseded packages, and establish resilient sourcing arrangements for high-margin components.

The interim must start within two weeks for eighteen months through alternate-source qualification and inventory normalisation. Permanent recruitment starts after the first alternate wafer passes reliability, with eight weeks of transition.

Handover requires ninety-five per cent customer service for two quarters, qualified alternates covering eighty per cent of revenue-at-risk, excess inventory reduced by ₹160 crore, and the successor commanding a tested geopolitical supply disruption.

The chief may allocate die, place capacity deposits within ₹2 crore and approve expedited logistics. Foundry commitments above ₹10 crore, customer liabilities and product-specification changes require board approval; Engineering and Quality own qualification acceptance.

New chip architecture, customer pricing and in-house fabrication investment are excluded. The mandate secures the existing product portfolio through feasible, qualified supply routes.

Why this seat is open

The restriction exposed single-source concentration and incomplete product migration plans. Customer allocation cannot remain a committee compromise without executive ownership. A temporary CSCO will manage the scarcity, qualify resilience and give the permanent leader a less fragile portfolio.

What you will own

• Allocate constrained die using customer criticality, contractual exposure, contribution and substitution readiness.
• Map revenue-at-risk across foundry, wafer process, package, substrate, test and logistics dependencies.
• Decide alternate-source priorities and fund controlled qualification lots within approved envelopes.
• Negotiate capacity, cancellation, ownership and visibility terms with strategic supply partners.
• Reduce excess and obsolete stock through product transition, supplier liability and controlled redeployment.
• Run a monthly semiconductor S&OP tying customer promise to die, package and test constraint evidence.
• Transfer allocation logic, alternate qualification and disruption playbooks to the successor.

Candidate qualifications

• More than twenty-two years in semiconductor planning, sourcing or operations with enterprise supply authority.
• Managed foundry or component allocation during export restriction, natural disaster or structural shortage.
• Deep understanding of wafer starts, cycle time, die bank, substrates, packaging, test and qualification lead times.
• Demonstrated alternate-source qualification without making unsupported equivalence assumptions.
• Record of reducing excess inventory while protecting long-cycle constrained customer supply.
• Experience explaining allocation ethics and economics to strategic customers and boards.