Chief Supply Chain Officer — Interim, Semiconductor Components

The mandate

Export restrictions removed an allocated foundry path for two high-margin components, and the supply chief departed during customer rationing. Inventory is simultaneously short in constrained die and excessive in superseded packages.

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.

Non-negotiables

• Can join in Bengaluru within two weeks and travel to Asian supply partners.
• No current financial interest in foundries, distributors or OSAT partners under negotiation.
• Will document allocation decisions and avoid preferential off-book commitments.
• Available throughout the eighteen-month qualification and succession term.

1. 49 words maximum. State your start availability and capacity for urgent Asia supplier travel.
2. 49 words maximum. Which constrained semiconductor allocation did you govern, and what principle determined customer priority?
3. 49 words maximum. What alternate source did you qualify, and which reliability gate took longest?