Materials Manager - OFC

Materials Manager

The Materials Manager is responsible for end-to-end materials execution, ensuring the timely availability of raw materials, components, and subassemblies to support demand and production plans. With a heavy focus on Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE), this role drives day-to-day alignment between demand, supply, and capacity while proactively managing constraints, shortages, and risks to customer service and operational performance.

As a Materials Manager, you will:

• Lead the S&OE process, translating S&OE and SIOP plans into executable, short-term supply and materials actions
• Facilitate weekly/daily S&OE meetings to resolve demand-supply imbalances, shortages, and priority conflicts.
• Own exception management, escalation, and rapid decision-making to meet AOP/QCR targets and plan.
• Provide clear supply commit dates and recovery plans for at-risk orders.
• Ensure material availability aligns with master production schedule and near-term demand signals.
• Balance service, inventory, and cost through effective inventory strategies and maintenance of accurate planning parameters in ERP system (PFEP, Safety Stock, ROP's, MOQ's).
• Identify and mitigate material constraints, supplier risks, and lead-time variability.
• Partner closely with Sales, Customer Service, Production, Procurement, Project Management, Logistics, and Finance.
• Communicate risks and impacts to stakeholders with clarity and urgency.
• Use data and scenario analysis to drive execution decisions and continuous improvement.

Required education, experience, & skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Business, or related field (equivalent working experience in materials management may be considered in lieu of a degree).
• 7+ years of experience in materials management, supply planning, or production control.
• Demonstrated leadership of S&OE/SIOP processes.
• Experience managing teams in a manufacturing or complex supply environment.
• Experience with product launches
• Experience managing engineering changes and working with suppliers to make those changes happen.
• Proficiency with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Net Suite);
  Oracle Flora experience would be a plus.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred education, experience, & skills:

• APICS/ASCM certification
• Experience operating within a formal SIOP/S&OE framework.
• Background in an Engineer-to-Order (ETO) manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing or continuous improvement methodologies.