Gerente de Materiales

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree completed

•Minimum 5 years in similar position.

•Wide availability.

• Bilingual

• Practical knowledge of systems (SAP, ORACLE, EPICOR, ETC)

• Ability to manage projects and establish clear goals and accountabilities to ensure successful delivery (on time, within budget, meeting agreed upon success criteria.

• Strong analytical, negotiation and communication (verbal and written) skills.

• Results oriented, proactive, independent.

Experience:

• Manage the sourcing and purchasing functions for raw material and component inventory for multiple manufacturing plants.

• Partner with corporate Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning team on executing strategies to optimize inventory cost and service levels across the network.

• Implement procedures and controls that provide early indicators of potential inventory issues to mitigate disruptions to production

• Responsible for ensuring supply plans are in place to meeting new product launch timelines

• Manage local supplier performance and supply agreements. Deliver material cost savings through supplier negotiations and other sourcing strategies.

• Work closely with manufacturing and warehousing teams to maintain a robust control environment to minimize inventory losses

• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency within the supply chain and improve inventory accuracy

• Develop and manage cycle counting procedures for key inventory categories and lead periodic physical inventory counts.

• Responsible for reporting and analysis of key inventory metrics including yield performance, inventory turns, excess and obsolete, etc.

• Clearly communicate goals and objectives and facilitate associate growth and development through regular team meetings, coaching, training, and companyoffered learning opportunities

• Recognizes and values customers and fellow associates by:

- emphasizing teamwork

- possessing a customer-driven attitude

- effectively achieving results by meeting mutually agreed upon goals