Materials Manager

Position Summary

The Materials Manager will provide strategic leadership and oversight of all manufacturing and supply chain activities to ensure the cost‑effective production and timely delivery of high‑quality products. The Materials Manager will work closely with Sales and Production Management to develop and manage forecasts for long‑range material planning while considering current inventory, obsolescence, lead times, product life cycles and production capacity. This role is focused on managing schedules and coordinating the efficient replacement of component parts to satisfy customer demand.

The Materials Manager analyzes and revises production plans, provides appropriate delivery dates as required, works with other departments to ensure customer satisfaction, analyzes and reports on actual customer demand, trends and forecasts, and adjusts capacity plans accordingly. The Materials Manager works closely with the Warehouse Manager to monitor daily inventory control activities, obsolescence, lead times, product life cycles and production capacity.

• Develop, deploy, and ensure adherence to policies and procedures for all supply chain activities including purchasing, planning, warehousing, order fulfillment, and logistics.
• Create a strong and efficient materials organization that coordinates effectively with other functions while continuing to improve overall performance results for the company.
• Develop and implement actions needed to achieve corporate and division strategic goals, including cost reductions, quality improvements, supply chain flexibility and reliability, alternate low‑cost sourcing, lead‑time reductions and inventory turns improvements.
• Oversee all supply chain aspects for new product development and operationalization.
• Ensure talent assessment, development, training and hiring across the supply chain team is effective to grow capabilities and support the succession planning requirements.
• Provide leadership to fully leverage the ERP system capabilities across the business including all purchasing, planning, buying, MRP, SIOP, forecasting, and data management.
• Participate as a key member of the Operations management team. Collaborate well with other managers and functions to improve overall business performance.
• Responsible for establishing forecast processes, maintaining short‑and medium‑term production and inventory plans.
• Translate projected forecasts, incoming volume, and work scopes into a production plan with a time‑phased build schedule.
• Work with customer base to determine weekly inbound forecast and develop consumption models to improve accuracy.
• Acts as manufacturing liaison to Sales/Marketing for updates and commitments on work order completion status, as well as product shipments.
• Responsible for developing Production (Build) plan based on demand requirements from actual Sales Orders. Translates the build plan into firm work orders to drive MRP.
• Schedule demand based on the product mix and provide accurate commitment dates to customer service team across multiple product lines.
• Responsible for coordinating and executing the Production Plan with Manufacturing and Shipping Teams for timely and accurate completion. Provides daily Dispatch List (Production Schedule) for implementation.
• Assemble master schedule reporting regarding performance to the business plan, the shipment plan, the inventory plan, and the production plan.
• Provide input to finance on operating plans for the sales and operations planning (S&OP) process, concerning incoming volume and capacity.
• Establish key performance indicators of forecast accuracy. Ensure the interaction of a firm’s functional managers, and track and maintain the forecast through timely and accurate feedback.
• Works closely with Purchasing to ensure raw materials support of the Production plan and provides timely feedback to Sales/Marketing for any deviation from original expectation.
• Manage load leveling and bottleneck scheduling and utilize theory of constraints (TOC) for more accurate scheduling.
• Coordinate information with other functional staff, including customer service, engineering, operations, and accounting.
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