Materials Manager

Position Title: Materials Manager

Department: Supply Chain

Location: St. Louis Metro Area & multi-site operations

Reports To:Strategic Sourcing Manager

Travel: Up to 20% travel to company facilities and supplier/service-provider locations

Classification:Salary
- Exempt

Control Devices is seeking a hands‑on, results‑oriented Materials Manager to lead two critical supply chain functions:
Materials Management and Transportation & Logistics. This role will initially divide its focus between leading receiving, warehousing, and inventory management operations across multiple manufacturing facilities and managing and optimizing the company's transportation and logistics programs.

A key near‑term objective will be to evaluate the company's existing transportation and logistics network, lead a strategic sourcing initiative for transportation and logistics services, and implement improvements that enhance cost competitiveness, service performance, visibility, and scalability.

As transportation and logistics processes mature, the role is expected to evolve toward broader leadership of materials management processes, systems, and best practices across multiple sites while retaining ownership of transportation and logistics business processes, systems, and strategic service‑provider relationships.

Materials Management Functional Leader

• Lead receiving, warehousing, and inventory management operations for show multi‑site manufacturing operations
• Provide direct leadership, coaching, and development for materials personnel.
• Evaluate materials management processes, organizational structures, systems, and workflows to identify improvement, standardization, and optimization opportunities.
• Evaluate and maintain inventory control processes that ensure high inventory accuracy, including cycle counting, reconciliation, and root‑cause analysis of variances.
• Drive reduction of excess, slow‑moving, and obsolete inventory (OSMI).
• Support production, purchasing, and planning through effective material‑flow management.
• Develop and implement standard processes, metrics, and best practices for receiving, warehousing, inventory management, and material handling across sites.
• Partner with Operations, Procurement, Planning, and Finance to improve inventory performance, material availability, operational efficiency, and working‑capital utilization.
• Support implementation, optimization, and standardization of materials management systems and processes across additional facilities.
• Lead continuous improvement focused on inventory accuracy, warehouse efficiency, material flow, transaction discipline, and overall supply chain performance.

Transportation & Logistics Program Owner

• Lead transportation and logistics sourcing initiatives to optimize cost, service, and provider performance across multiple sites.
• Manage relationships and performance of third‑party logistics providers (3PLs) supporting domestic and international inbound transportation.
• Coordinate with logistics providers, customs brokers, and trade compliance partners to ensure reliable material flow and regulatory compliance.
• Serve as business process owner for the Transportation Management System (TMS).
• Serve as process owner for Freight Audit & Pay activities and provider management.
• Establish and maintain HTS classifications and support import compliance activities.
• Manage freight claims, service issues, and logistics‑related exception resolution.
• Develop and monitor transportation KPIs, provider scorecards, and service‑level performance.
• Identify and implement transportation cost, service, visibility, and reliability improvements.
• Support continuous improvement of transportation and logistics processes, systems, and reporting. Leadership…