Materials Manager

Imagine yourself… Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you. Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project. Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth. It’s all possible with a role at Videojet, a Veralto company. You have likely purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this week—after all, Videojet is a world leader in the product identification market, providing in-line printing, coding and marking products, consumables, and software solutions.

Videojet’s technologies play a critical role in ensuring the safety and authenticity of products sold across the globe in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial marketplaces. As part of the Videojet team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll work with products that make an everyday impact on the world around you—and along the way, you’ll have opportunities to make your mark on our business and your career with ongoing opportunities to deepen your skillset and pursue your ambitions.

Learn about our leading portfolio of innovative products here.

• Professional onboarding and training options
• Powerful team looking forward to working with you
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• Health benefits
• 401(k)

The Materials Manager leads buyers/planners to ensure effective material replenishment for the factory. This role ensures the right inventory levels to support customer demand, keep production lines running, and meet working capital targets. The Materials Manager is responsible for improving inventory turns, improving supplier on-time delivery, managing raw materials, finished goods inventory, goods in transit, and vendor-managed inventory. This role will be located in Wood Dale, Illinois, and will be onsite.

• Lead and develop a team of buyer/planners to ensure effective material planning and replenishment
• Ensure optimal inventory levels to support customer demand while minimizing excess and ensuring the production cells do not have stock outs
• Drive continuous improvement in inventory turns and overall working capital performance
• Monitor and improve supplier on time delivery and material availability to prevent production disruptions
• Oversee end to end material flow, including ordering raw materials, goods in transit, finished goods, and vendor managed inventory (VMI)
• Collaborate with production, quality, and manufacturing engineering to mitigate any interruptions from suppliers
• Manage all open purchase orders with suppliers and minimize past due POs.
• Establish and maintain material planning parameters (safety stock, reorder points, lead times, kanban, min/max)
• Analyze demand forecast and align supply plans to meet current customer requirements and service level targets
• Identify and mitigate supply chain risk, including shortages, delays, and supplier performance issues
• Implement and drive best practices in inventory management, material planning, and ERP system utilization
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives (kaizens) focused on cost reduction, inventory reduction, and adding suppliers to VMI
• Using VES tools, identify root cause to On Time Delivery misses and inventory misses and lead the team to create countermeasures
• Develop and mentor subordinates to build a strong pipeline of future leaders, ensuring effective succession planning and bench strength

• Bachelor’s Degree and /or Master’s Degree in Engineering or Business Administration
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in Materials Management.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in a Materials Management leadership role
• Knowledge of VES Tools (Kaizen, 5S, SQDP, PSP, others)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Computer…