Supply Chain & Materials Manager – Manufacturing

Supply Chain & Materials Manager – Manufacturing

Location: Marietta, OH

Job Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire

Travel: Up to 20%

We are seeking an experienced Supply Chain & Materials Manager
to lead material planning, purchasing, inventory, and supplier performance for a manufacturing operation. This is an on-site leadership position responsible for keeping materials aligned with production and project requirements while improving inventory performance, supplier reliability, and supply chain resilience.

The position directly supervises a Buyer Planner team
and works closely with Project Management, Sales, Engineering, Production, Quality, Finance, and Supply Chain leadership.

Power distribution industry experience is strongly preferred.

• Lead, coach, and develop Buyer Planners while establishing clear performance expectations and KPIs.
• Balance workloads across commodities, projects, and production requirements.
• Ensure Buyer Planners effectively use ERP/MRP systems
  for purchasing, planning, item master maintenance, and exception management.
• Support professional development, cross-training, and certification opportunities such as APICS CPIM and CSCP
  .
• Maintain coverage plans to ensure continuity during absences and staffing changes.

• Partner with Project Managers to align material availability with project schedules and production release dates.
• Participate in project kickoffs for engineered-to-order (ETO)programs to review BOMs, identify long-lead materials, and assess supply risks.
• Provide material availability and lead-time information to support realistic customer commitments.
• Lead shortage escalations and coordinate corrective actions with suppliers and internal teams.
• Review the active project portfolio regularly and align material critical paths with project schedules.
• Support configure-to-order (CTO) and quick-ship programs
  through appropriate inventory and material planning.

• Provide Sales with supply chain input on material availability, supplier capacity, and realistic lead times before commitments are made.
• Participate in Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP)activities.
• Use sales pipeline and backlog information to anticipate material requirements and reduce supply risk.
• Support customer‑specific stocking programs, blanket orders, and consignment inventory arrangements.

• Develop positioning plans for critical and long‑lead materials.
• Manage inventory strategies for components such as specialty breakers, bus assemblies, power electronic modules, custom enclosures, and transformers
  .
• Identify single‑source and sole‑source risks and recommend mitigation strategies, including dual sourcing, safety stock, supplier‑managed inventory, and LTAs
  .
• Support commodity strategies using supplier performance, consumption, and demand data.
• Execute approved supplier and commodity strategies at the facility level.
• Lead facility‑level make/buy analysis
  and provide recommendations to supply chain and operations leadership.
• Monitor commodity pricing, supply constraints, geopolitical risks, tariffs, and other factors affecting material cost or availability.

• Own facility inventory performance, including inventory turns, excess and obsolete (E&O) inventory, days of supply, and working capital
  .
• Drive toward a target of 10 inventory turns per year
  .
• Lead monthly E&O reviews and coordinate disposition actions such as supplier returns, project redeployment, and write‑off recommendations.
• Establish inventory policies covering safety stock, reorder points, lot sizing, and cycle counts
  .
• Lead the annual physical inventory process.
• Balance inventory investment, material availability, and working capital using data‑driven decisions.

• Manage supplier performance using on‑time delivery (SOTD), quality/PPM, lead‑time accuracy, and responsiveness
  metrics.
• Conduct quarterly business reviews with key suppliers and establish measurable improvement plans.
• Escalate supplier issues that could affect production continuity.
• Partner with Quality Engineering on SCARs, root‑cause analysis, corrective…