Global Spares & FRU Planning Director

Oracle; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle seeks a seasoned leader to own global FRU and Spares planning, shaping the life cycle strategy for service parts. You’ll drive demand, supply, and inventory planning across a global network, aligning with Engineering, Procurement, and Finance to optimize availability and asset utilization.

The role requires deep expertise in FRUs, service spares, and complex multi-site planning, with strong analytical and executive communication skills to influence senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field required.
• 15+ years of progressive supply chain/ops experience.
• 7+ years leading planning or supply-chain organizations.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex global planning functions.
• Deep experience with FRUs, service spares, repairable inventory, or aftermarket supply chains.
• Strong expertise in demand, supply, and inventory planning.
• Experience with intermittent and failure-driven demand.
• Strong understanding of AFR, MTBF, reliability, and installed-base-driven planning.

Responsibilities

• Own global FRU and Spares planning strategy and operating model.
• Lead global demand, supply, and inventory planning for service parts.
• Establish forecasting methodologies for intermittent and failure-driven demand.
• Integrate installed base, consumption, AFR, MTBF, returns, and reliability data into planning.
• Define inventory, safety-stock, and service-level strategies.
• Optimize inventory across central, regional, and local stocking locations.
• Segment planning strategies by part criticality, value, and supply risk.
• Establish differentiated strategies for high-cost and constrained FRUs.
• Govern FRU calculation models, planning assumptions, and parameters.
• Identify shortages, excess inventory, and supply risks early.
• Lead recovery and prioritization strategies for constrained materials.
• Partner with Procurement on supplier capacity, lead times, and commitments.
• Ensure critical FRUs are positioned at the right locations to support service requirements.
• Drive inventory transfers and replenishment strategies across the global network.
• Integrate repair, refurbishment, and recovered inventory into supply plans.
• Balance new-buy and repair strategies to improve availability and asset utilization.
• Own FRU and Spares inventory investment planning and financial governance.
• Align forecast, budget, and purchasing requirements.
• Develop executive recommendations on service, inventory, cost, and risk tradeoffs.
• Establish a single source of truth for Spares planning data.
• Improve planning systems, automation, master data, and analytical capabilities.
• Establish global KPIs and executive dashboards for Spares performance.
• Lead root-cause reviews and corrective actions for planning and availability gaps.
• Establish clear ownership and accountability across the FRU and Spares ecosystem.
• Represent Spares Planning in senior leadership and cross-functional forums.
• Lead and develop a global organization of planning leaders and individual contributors.
• Build scalable processes and planning capabilities that reduce reliance on manual intervention.

Skills

Global leadership

Analytical skills

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Business, Analytics, or related field

Tools

SQL

Python

BI tools

Oracle Fusion

Job description

Oracle seeks a seasoned leader to own global FRU and Spares planning, shaping the life cycle strategy for service parts. You’ll drive demand, supply, and inventory planning across a global network, aligning with Engineering, Procurement, and Finance to optimize availability and asset utilization.

The role requires deep expertise in FRUs, service spares, and complex multi-site planning, with strong analytical and executive communication skills to influence senior stakeholders.