Materials Management Supervisor

The Materials Management Supervisor is responsible for leading day-to-day procurement and inventory management activities supporting manufacturing operations. This position supervises purchasing personnel and is accountable for ensuring the timely availability of raw materials, APIs, excipients, packaging components, consumables, and other assigned materials while maintaining appropriate inventory levels and supporting working‑capital objectives. The Materials Management Supervisor works closely with Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Warehouse, Engineering, Finance, and Strategic Sourcing to ensure continuity of supply, supplier performance, inventory optimization, and compliance with applicable cGMP requirements and company procedures.

The position serves as the primary operational link between purchasing, inventory management, and production planning and is responsible for identifying and resolving material shortages and supply risks that could impact the manufacturing schedule.

• Supervise and provide day-to-day direction to Buyers, Senior Buyers, and/or Procurement Specialists.
• Ensure purchase orders are placed accurately and in accordance with MRP requirements, production schedules, inventory policies, and approved supplier agreements.
• Monitor open purchase orders, supplier confirmations, delivery dates, past‑due orders, and material shortages.
• Lead escalation and resolution of supplier delivery and material availability issues.
• Manage supplier relationships for assigned materials and categories.
• Negotiate pricing, lead times, minimum order quantities, payment terms, and other commercial conditions.
• Support strategic sourcing, cost‑reduction, supplier‑consolidation, and dual‑sourcing initiatives.
• Monitor supplier performance, including on‑time delivery, lead‑time adherence, responsiveness, quality performance, and service levels.
• Participate in supplier business reviews and supplier performance improvement initiatives.

• Monitor inventory levels for raw materials, APIs, excipients, packaging components, consumables, and other assigned materials.
• Ensure inventory levels appropriately support production requirements while minimizing excess working capital.
• Monitor and optimize safety stocks, reorder points, order quantities, lead times, and inventory parameters.
• Review MRP recommendations and purchasing signals to ensure alignment with actual demand and supply conditions.
• Identify and proactively manage excess, obsolete, and slow‑moving inventory (E&O/SLOB).
• Develop action plans to reduce inventory exposure and prevent future excess and obsolete inventory.
• Monitor inventory turns, days on hand, inventory value, material shortages, and inventory‑at‑risk.
• Partner with Planning and Manufacturing to align purchasing decisions with forecasts, production schedules, and changes in demand.
• Coordinate disposition activities for rejected, expired, obsolete, or discontinued materials in partnership with Quality, Finance, and Warehouse Operations.

• Maintain visibility of critical material requirements and potential supply constraints.
• Lead material shortage reviews and coordinate recovery plans with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Identify single‑source, long‑lead‑time, capacity‑constrained, and other high‑risk materials.
• Support development of risk‑mitigation strategies including safety‑stock adjustments, alternate suppliers, dual sourcing, and lead‑time reduction.
• Escalate significant supply risks to Procurement and Supply Chain Management.
• Work cross‑functionally to minimize manufacturing disruptions caused by material shortages.

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