Materials Manager

The Materials Manager is responsible for overseeing shipping & receiving, inventory control, planning and also guides the supply chain team in forecasting efforts, monitoring inventory levels, negotiating contracts, and vendor performance management. They will successfully lead the assigned teams ensuring that all associates have the proper training and tools to achieve the expectations of their respective positions.

Essential Responsibilities: 

• Plan, implement and monitor activities related to materials management, procurement and inventory control.
• Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, planning and operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery.
• Develop and sustain an ongoing, accurate weekly production schedule.
• Guides the process of maintaining lowest possible inventory while meeting customers’ needs. 
• Maintaining the accuracy of inventory levels of finished goods, work in process, obsolete inventory, and slow moving inventory.
• Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, planning and operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery.
• Participate as a member of the operations staff team in making cross-functional operational decisions effecting P/L, Cost, Operations, Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cash objectives. 
• Implement and execute LEAN manufacturing in materials planning with accurate consumption projections and build and maintain a strong internal relationship with production operations.
• Develop and implement inventory control performance metrics.
• Responsible for accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing an inventory control process, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and completing root cause countermeasure corrective actions to guard against inconsistencies in the future.
• Research and reconcile all inventory transaction errors.
• Develop and implement policies and procedures as they pertain to warehouse operations.
• Manage the quality, output, and workflow of the team. 
• Provide individual coaching and direction to the team.
• Coordinate with the Plant Manager to provide feedback towards employee development. 
• Assign tasks to Associates based on the team’s abilities and capacity.
• Implement technical or process improvements to assist the team in achieving specific goals.
• Implement and maintain safety practices and procedures.
• Manage inbound/outbound shipments while maintaining inventory accuracy. 
• Establish, analyze, and report on supplier metrics, inventory metrics, and forecast.
• Establish best practices for procurement in Manufacturing and Distribution.
• Serve as a point of escalation in the event of a supplier discrepancy.
• Establish departmental and individual goals, including the cost and inventory reduction initiative. 
• Drive supplier selection and qualification process.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related subject matter or equivalent combination of years of experience and education.
• 5 years of experience in a Manufacturing or Distribution environment.
• 2 years of Supervisory experience
• Strong experience in Microsoft office including Outlook, Excel, Word.
• ERP Systems knowledge, Microsoft Dynamics AX preferred.
• Strong sense of urgency and ability to prioritize in order to meet the expectations of the customer.
• Detail oriented, to provide the highest level of quality.