Staff Marketing Operations Specialist

Job description

Renesas is seeking a methodical and business-minded Product Line Business Specialist to join our Memory Interface Division. This role serves as a key advocate at the product level, driving problem-solving, forecasting, and cross-functional coordination to ensure we can meet customer demand. The ideal candidate combines a marketing lens with strong business management and operations expertise to anticipate supply and demand imbalances up to 18 months in advance and proactively resolve constraints before they impact our customers.

Key Responsibilities

Product Advocacy & Business Ownership

• Act as the primary advocate for assigned products, representing their interests across the organization Champion product-level business needs in cross-functional decision-making forums

Forecasting & Supply-Demand Planning

• Develop and maintain rolling forecasts projecting business and supply positions 18 months into the future
• Identify where business demand and supply availability are likely to break, enabling early intervention
• Model demand scenarios and translate them into actionable supply requirements Problem Solving & Escalation Proactively identify and escalate potential shortages, assembly capacity limitations, and wafer constraints
• Lead structured problem-solving efforts to close supply-demand gaps
• Develop mitigation strategies to protect customer commitments during periods of constraint

Stakeholder Engagement & Coordination

• Gather intelligence from key stakeholders across sales, operations, manufacturing, and supply chain
• Coordinate and organize inputs into a coherent, actionable business picture
• Communicate risks, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners

Meeting Customer Demand

• Partner with operations and supply chain to ensure capacity and wafer supply align with customer needs
• Balance competing priorities to optimize product-level business outcomes
• Drive alignment between commercial goals and manufacturing realities

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Marketing, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in business management, operations, supply/demand planning, or product line management (semiconductor industry preferred)
• Demonstrated experience in forecasting, supply-demand balancing, and capacity planning
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a methodical, structured approach
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional communication abilities Preferred Qualifications: Experience in the semiconductor industry
• Familiarity with wafer fabrication and assembly/test capacity constraints Marketing or product marketing exposure with an understanding of customer demand dynamics