Manager, Materials (Manufacturing)

Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Company

Manufacturing organization focused on coordinating materials, purchasing, inventory, and production operations.

What you will do

• Develop supply plans for customer orders, forecasted demand, and inventory requirements in alignment with SIOP objectives.
• Lead inventory management, production scheduling, raw-material allocation, work-in-process coordination, and MTO/MTS strategies.
• Oversee purchasing of materials and services, including requisitions, purchase orders, supplier bids, negotiations, expediting, and issue resolution.
• Maintain ERP and MRP data, parameters, reports, and team utilization; monitor department KPIs and implement countermeasures.
• Identify material shortages, excess and obsolete inventory, capacity constraints, and delivery risks, developing corrective action plans.
• Lead cost-saving, Lean, continuous-improvement, inventory-stratification, and PFEP initiatives while coordinating with demand management, manufacturing, quality, warehousing, and transportation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university and/or five to ten years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience leading supply-management processes within a manufacturing organization.
• Hands-on experience with supply-chain management software; SAP experience is a plus.
• Thorough understanding of MRP inputs in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to analyze data, create reports, present findings, solve practical problems, and work with limited standardization.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel and Word.
• Strong written and verbal communication, customer-centric service orientation, and sense of urgency.
• Ability to interpret business and technical materials, governmental regulations, and procedures; write reports, correspondence, and procedure manuals; and present information to managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts including discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to lift, lower, push, and pull up to 40 lbs. safely.

Nice to have

• CPIM certification.
• SAP experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a lean manufacturing environment supporting production, safety, maintenance, customer satisfaction, profitability, and organizational growth.
• Coordinate purchasing, shipping, receiving, inventory control, production scheduling, and material-expediting personnel.
• Maintain compliant and ethical supplier relationships and protect confidential work information.