Materials Manager

Job Title: Materials Manager
Date:  08/3/2020
Department: Material Management
Manager Approval: Karalee Tabron
Approval Date: August 3, 2020

Primary Role:

Develops, implements and manages cross-functional, fully integrated planning process that incorporates make versus buy, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory, material and associated cost elements. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs analysis of customer demand, sales forecasts and historical material usage to develop and execute build to order and build to forecast plans.  
• Coordinates with cross-functional business teams to develop the best economic strategy for production planning to support customer demand.
• Establishes and implements methods and best practices related to the systems and processes that support inventory forecasting, purchasing and material control. 
• Prepares customer delivery reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends and uses information to proactively communicate potential late deliveries.
• Establishes and supervises production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules.
• Identifies, develops and manages effective relationships with existing and potential suppliers of goods and services to meet the established cost, quality and delivery targets.
• Adheres to established company policies, procedures, terms and conditions and legal matters that affect purchasing policies.
• Coordinates and works with quality, engineering, machining and assembly operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedule to proactively identify and address any issues.
• Maintains for accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing, in conjunction with Finance, an inventory control system capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies in the future.
• Achieves financial objectives by working with the management group to prepare the materials budget, schedule expenditures, analyze variances and initiate corrective actions.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from four-year College or university or ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience with ERP software.
• Experience with Plex (preferred)
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations.  Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. 
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.  Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
• Ability to use good judgment.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to bend, reach and lift and move up to 10 pounds.
• Ability to continuously sit, stand or walk.