Business Process and Controls IV - (B4)

Who We Are

Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world. 

What We Offer

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You’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more. 

At Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our benefits. 

Key Responsibilities

• Policy and Statutory
  • ​Drives policy improvement to align with changing business needs, technology advancements and industry best practices.
  • Able to work with Corporate Policy to address Q&A and other issues that may arise.
  • Has a strong understanding of the interconnection with upstream and downstream policy requirements.
  • Helps others to make decisions based on consistent application of policy and statutory requirements
• Process Delivery
  • ​Drives end-to-end process alignment and integrity of the control environment.
  • Manages the products/tools organization uses/owns to delivery its processes and services.
  • Able to deliver multiple conflicting priorities
  • Actively uses benchmarking and performance metrics to understand the health of the organizational service delivery and identify improvement opportunities.
  • Networks to learn best practices and new approaches and new technology advancements.
  • Able to take ownership for escalations and drive for resolution.
  • Strong understands the controls and reasons for them, including risk implications, within the process and business rules.
  • Ensures and drives integrity of process controls.
  • Has a strong understanding of the design of the tools and systems the organization uses/owns to delivery its processes and services.
• Process  Design, Build and Test
  • ​Able to coordinate complex design and testing activities.
  • Able to drive design, build and test strategies.
  • Able to deconstruct processes and systems to  analyze end to end and understand control points, assess efficiency, assess business rules and policy implications, understand roles and responsibilities
  • Assesses end-to-end processes to evaluate integration points, process and policy controls, efficiency, roles and responsibilities, business objectives.
• Change & Project Management
  • ​Functions as change agent
  • Organizes operational sponsorship for the projects
  • Able to lead teams
  • Able to lead projects of higher complexity having  moderate to large scope
  • Uses formal change management tools and method, including effective socialization.
  • Uses formal project management tools and method
  • Able to develop effective training materials.
  • Able to drive the implement new processes and policies.
  • Able to project influence within the organization to improve process alignment and performance.
  • Able to project influence to functions outside the organization to improve process alignment and performance.
• Decision Making
  • ​Has Shared Services experience
  • Drives for advancement of the Shared Services Mission
  • Foundation for Decision Making. Mastery of policy, Mastery of process (Reason for Processes, Marriage of Systems, Policy and Risk Management), Mastery or how to execute process
  • Applies mastery to the problem and provides correct solution path
  • Effectively and actively uses performance metrics in the decision process.
  • Effectively and actively uses benchmarking in decision making.
  • Understands the effects of decisions on the stakeholders.
  • Effectively considers the  needs of the stakeholders
• End User Support
  • ​Clearly understands the Shared Services Mission and Purpose to the Company
  • Able to analyze trends and identify training needs.
  • Able to analyze trends and identify areas opportunities to reduce the necessity for inquiries.
  • Able to analyze trends and identify areas opportunities to improve self- service tools.
  • Able to improve support model design to meet changing needs of the stakeholders.
  • Understands technology and is able to leverage its ability to improve the end user support function.

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized discipline or field 

Business Expertise

• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services

Leadership

• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity 

Problem Solving

• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions

Impact

• Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view
• Cross-cultural communication
• Adaptability
• Relationship building
• Negotiation

Additional Information

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The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

In addition, Applied endeavors to make our careers site accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us via e-mail at [email protected], or by calling our HR Direct Help Line at 877-612-7547, option 1, and following the prompts to speak to an HR Advisor. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.