Supply Chain Manager
Materion

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The Supply Chain Manager will oversee the Production Planning and Shipping/ Receiving/ Non-Precious Metal Warehouse teams and will perform supply and inventory planning activities that complement the business strategy, while contributing to transforming the culture into one focused on proactive behaviors that improve performance and productivity. The passion to influence and build relationships is crucial.

The focus will be on optimizing the Supply Chain environment in Buffalo and provide transparency into its performance. This individual will work closely with peers from the other plants for best practice sharing and implementation and will focus internally on stabilizing a functional and reliable supply chain.

You Will Have the Opportunity To:

• Collaborate closely with Operations team and build a partnership, while providing support and transparency regarding supply/demand constraints, shipping/ receiving capabilities, and ensure appropriate flexibility of the Supply Chain capabilities in line with the plant's requirements. Act as the main point of contact for the plant's strategy topics related to Supply Chain.
• Manage and coordinate the local Supply Chain team. Ensure development path for the team members and coordinate and support the projects and initiatives within their departments. Interface with and/or escalate to EM Planning/Inventory Manager and the BU Plant Manager on employee issues and concerns as needed.
• Drive continuous improvement and best practice projects in all areas - Receiving, Shipping, Warehouse, Planning - and engage the team members to be active contributors to the positive changes.
• Collaborate with the team members in planning and the warehouse in managing the inventory levels. Ensure days on hand and overall inventory goals are met; actively mitigate risk of excess of stockout.
• Own On-Time-Delivery performance, non-PM Inventory Turns, and other best practice key performance indicators as requested by plant and division management. Also perform an operational forecast based on Sales and Finance input. Prepare the environment for the deployment of a Sales and Operations Planning process.
• Be the subject matter expert related to SAP process and execution of all supply chain functions end to end, perform analysis and corrections of master and transactional data for efficiency increase. Drive gradual improvements and guide the team to become more knowledgeable ERP system users.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's Degree required, preferably with emphasis in Business, Supply Chain, Operations or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in manufacturing industry, with 1+ years of experience in the following preferred: supply chain management, inventory control, logistics, production planning, and project management.
• Knowledge and hands on experience with ERP systems specifically related to materials requirements planning, distribution planning, production planning or inventory control.
• Experience with SAP is a must.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and the ability to analyze and turn data into information and action.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across all levels and functional teams, in a matrix organization and to influence and drive accountability across peers.
• Effective problem solving/critical thinking skills to drive solutions related to complex supply chain models.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders in all levels of the organization.

The selection of the person to be hired for this position is contingent on the candidate having export compliance eligibility for access to U.S. controlled technology which comes under the licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

The candidate selected will have to qualify as either a U.S. citizen, a U.S. National, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a Person Admitted into the U.S. as an Asylee or Refugee., a National of a country that is not prohibited from having access to U.S. controlled technology (via a letter of assurance), or a Person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction.

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