Materials Manager

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Regular Full-Time Management Anaheim, CA, US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $95,000.00 To $ Annually

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We currently have an immediate opportunity for a Materials Manager to join the POWDER DIVISION at our ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA location. Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

Responsible to manage all aspects of materials flow, procurement, planning, scheduling, and cost to ensure that customer orders are fulfilled on time and in full at a 98.5%+ KPI level.

• Oversees Procurement and Scheduling/Planning teams and develops, implements, and manages the overall planning process incorporating line capacity, material flow and associated cost elements to drive most efficient, productive, and cost-effective frozen schedule to the production floor
• Ensure team distributes weekly production schedule and work orders are released in a timely manner.
• Establishes and supervises production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, production progress and other factors that can affect the schedule
• Review planned vs completed production, perform root cause analysis to provide insight on areas of opportunity and implement correction to reduce actual to plan variances
• Analyzes current customer demand, future sales forecasts, capacity throughput and material flows in order to collaborate with cross functional teams and develop and execute a “build-to-order” / “build-to-forecast” 6 month rolling plan. Plan will address future labor, line, and inventory requirements to support best economic strategy for production meeting customer demand
• Establish and implement best practices to support proper procurement, inventory, and scheduling processes
• Collaborates with Customer Service to develop and maintain a rolling 4-week customer delivery schedule upon capacity and material constraints. Proactively communicates any potential late deliveries to CSM to share with customers
• Develop and execute a procurement strategy that meets Nellson’s growth and supply & demand requirements while maintaining a proper DOH Inventory KPI as directed by Director of Supply Chain
• Establish, implement, and manage system to evaluate, monitor and report supplier and buyer scorecard performance
• Coordinate and work with Quality, Engineering and Production to ensure 100% on-time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedule to proactively identify and address any issues.
• Participates as a member of the Operations team in making cross-functional operational decisions
• Participates in MRB and CAR meetings to resolve quality issues working with both internal and external resources
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Process Engineering and Quality to achieve cost reduction targets
• Maintains a safe and healthy work environment by implementing, maintaining, and aligning company policies that adhere to local, state, and federal environmental, health and safety regulations
• Maintain and provide current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends
• Identify tools, processes, and metrics to optimize supplier value
• Back-Up to Master Scheduler when out of office
• Adhere to established company policies, procedures, terms and conditions and legal matters that affect purchasing policies

• Bachelor of Science degree in business, management, or other related discipline and/or work experience equivalent.
• At least 7 years progressive experience in management of materials, purchasing, procurement and logistics within a design and manufacturing environment
• Working knowledge and understanding of ERP/MRP systems and their use in a manufacturing environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, intermediate level of Excel and Power Point
• Ability to demonstrate solid written and oral communication skills

Demonstrated written and verbal communication, knowledge of Microsoft 365 software applications,…