Sr. Business Planner - Office and Lab Planning

Introduction to the job
ASML US, including its affiliates and subsidiaries, bring together the most creative minds in science and technology to develop lithography machines that are key to producing faster, cheaper, more energy-efficient microchips. We design, develop, integrate, market and service these advanced machines, which enable our customers - the world’s leading chipmakers - to reduce the size and increase the functionality of their microchips, which in turn leads to smaller, more powerful consumer electronics. Our headquarters are in Veldhoven, Netherlands, and we have 18 office locations around the United States including main offices in Chandler, Arizona, San Jose and San Diego, California, Wilton, Connecticut, and Hillsboro, Oregon.
We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Business Planner to support Office & Lab Planning activities for our Wilton Development & Engineering organization.
This role plays a key part in enabling ASML's technology roadmap by ensuring our engineers, scientists, and project teams have the right workspace and laboratory environments at the right time to support innovation and growth.
You will work closely with Business Line leaders, Corporate Real Estate, EHS, Lab Owners, Project Managers, and other stakeholders to assess space demand, develop capacity scenarios, prioritize requests, and support strategic planning for office and laboratory environments. The role requires strong analytical capabilities, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to navigate complex business priorities while balancing short-term needs with long-term planning objectives. Success in this role requires embracing ASML's values of Challenge, Collaborate, and Care by constructively challenging assumptions, partnering across sectors to achieve the best outcomes, and ensuring solutions meet the needs of both the business and our people.
As a trusted business partner, you will provide data-driven recommendations, facilitate decision-making, and drive continuous improvements in workspace planning processes, governance, and reporting.
Role and responsibilitiesStrategic Office & Lab Planning
Develop and maintain office and laboratory space plans aligned with business growth, organizational priorities, and strategic objectives.
Translate business requirements into practical workspace solutions while balancing capacity, utilization, cost, and operational constraints.
Support long-range planning activities by evaluating future demand scenarios, capacity requirements, and portfolio impacts.
Demand & Capacity Management
Partner with stakeholders to understand current and future workspace needs.
Analyze headcount forecasts, project requirements, industrial space demand, and occupancy trends to support planning decisions.
Identify capacity risks and opportunities and develop mitigation strategies.
Stakeholder Management & Business Partnership
Build strong relationships with business leaders, functional partners, and facilities organizations.
Facilitate alignment among stakeholders with differing priorities and requirements.
Provide clear recommendations and influence decision-making through data-driven insights and business case development.
Data Analysis, Reporting & Visualization
Develop and maintain planning dashboards, reports, and key performance indicators.
Analyze space utilization, occupancy metrics, growth forecasts, and planning trends.
Produce executive-level reporting to support planning decisions and portfolio governance.
Project & Portfolio Support
Support office and laboratory moves, reconfigurations, expansion projects, and business transformation initiatives.
Coordinate planning activities across multiple projects and stakeholders.
Ensure planning deliverables are completed on time and meet business requirements.
Continuous Improvement
Drive standardization and optimization of planning processes, tools, and governance frameworks.
Identify opportunities to improve data quality, planning methodologies, and reporting effectiveness.
Lead improvement initiatives that enhance planning efficiency and stakeholder experience.
Automate workflows, and develop low-code business solutions to improve operational efficiency.
Knowledge Sharing & Mentorship
Share expertise and best practices within the planning community.
Mentor and guide junior planners and team members.
Contribute to the development of planning capabilities, tools, and organizational knowledge.
Education and experience
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field. Masters preferred.
Minimum 4 years of experience in business planning, facilities planning, workplace strategy, space planning, portfolio management, operations planning, or a related discipline.
Experience managing complex stakeholder environments and balancing multiple competing priorities.
Experience utilizing data analysis and reporting tools to support business decisions.
Experience in a technical, engineering, manufacturing, or high-tech environment is preferred.
Experience supporting office, laboratory, facilities, or real estate planning initiatives is highly desirable.
Skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
Advanced data analysis and reporting skills, Power BI and Spotfire is a plus.
Business case development and scenario planning.
Capacity planning and demand management.
Project and portfolio management skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Advanced stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
Strong attention to detail and data accuracy, ensuring planning assumptions, stakeholder requirements, and reporting outputs are complete, consistent, and actionable.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications: Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, Forms
Experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate)
Continuous improvement mindset with experience using structured problem-solving methodologies.
Behavioral & Leadership SkillsDrives Results
The ability to translate strategic and technical goals into clear priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes, delivering committed results on time and with the right quality by taking ownership, managing trade-offs, removing obstacles, and sustaining momentum across stakeholders and dependencies.
Demonstrates Self-Awareness
The ability to understand and manage one’s own strengths, limitations, emotions, and impact on others; to actively seek and use feedback; and to adapt behaviors and decisions to improve collaboration, leadership effectiveness, and results, especially in high-pressure, ambiguous, or complex environments.
Values Differences
The ability to intentionally seek, respect, and integrate diverse perspectives and working styles to strengthen collaboration and decision quality, ensuring all voices are heard and treated equitably, and enabling inclusive execution across cross-functional and multicultural stakeholders.
Builds Effective Teams
Helps align and enable the team dynamic by clarifying shared goals, roles, dependencies, and ways of working. Fosters trust and inclusion by promoting open dialogue, healthy conflict resolution, inclusion, and mutual accountability. Coaches colleagues to strengthen individual and team capability.
Drives Vision and Purpose
Translates broader direction into clear priorities and practical next steps for a team or technical scope. Builds alignment on goals and trade-offs, communicates context during change or ambiguity, and helps others maintain focus on shared outcomes.
Communicate Effectively
Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
Other
This position is located on-site. It requires onsite presence to ensure teamwork, collaboration, innovation and to attend in-person work-related events, trainings and meetings.
Routinely required to sit; walk; talk; hear; use hands to keyboard, finger, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, reach, and stretch. Occasionally required to move around the campus.
Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
May require travel (domestic and/or international) dependent on business needs up to ~10%.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Additional Responsibilities (as needed in the cleanroom and/or labs):
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential