Materials Manager

Role: Materials manager

Location: Boxborough, MA 

This is a hands-on leadership role reporting to the Director of Operations. The Materials Manager is responsible for managing and providing leadership for all aspects of upstream material flow, from the supply base through receiving and shipping. This individual will manage raw and OEM inventory levels, supplier on-time delivery, and off-site warehousing to ensure that both internal and external customer orders are fulfilled on time.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the procurement of all direct and indirect materials in coordination with the production team to ensure quality, delivery, and cost targets are met.
• Supervise and manage all shipping activities, ensuring the accurate preparation, packaging, and timely dispatch of customer orders.
• Lead and oversee the receiving process to ensure accurate inspection, verification, and documentation of incoming materials.
• Responsible for the process of material flow through the building including purchasing, receiving, material handling, stocking and shipping.
• Actively problem solve materials challenges that are negatively impacting production, quality, and delivery to meet and exceed 95% on-time delivery to customer request.
• Be an active leader at onsite factory Daily Management reviews.
• Attract, develop, and retain qualified, talented people, creating and sustaining a high-performance culture and plan for succession.
• Lead process development and dynamic analysis for both internal and external customer demand utilizing sales forecasts and historical material usage to support execution of inventory stocking levels and build plans.
• Develop and execute action plans to drive targeted, long term sustainable improvement in QDC (Quality, Delivery & Cost) while achieving world class working capital turns.
• Develop, maintain and support effective relationships with suppliers of goods and services to meet the established quality, delivery, and cost targets.
• Responsible for inventory including but not limited to gross and net inventory levels, quick turns, inventory adjustments, E&O management, cycle count activities from implementation to accuracy and physical inventory activities and accuracy.
• Supervise Vendor Performance through supplier score cards.
• Work with strategic sourcing team to provide both sustaining and new product support to influence supplier decisions that impact on-time delivery, quality, cost and inventory levels.
• Strong understanding and usage of FMS tools and principles, particularly IMAG (Inventory Management at Gemba), Dynamic Kanban, Integrated PSI (Production, Sales, Inventory) and PSP (Problem Solving Process)
• Benchmark and incorporate best practices from other Ralliant site locations.
• May be assigned additional projects and responsibilities at the sole discretion of the manager/supervisor.

• BA or BS in Business, Engineering, or similar field. MBA preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years’ progressive experience in planning, purchasing, and inventory control within a lean manufacturing environment.
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills with the ability to motivate a group to deliver against key metrics
• Working knowledge of kanban replenishment systems
• The ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of personnel and production issues.
• Strong desire to learn and drive lean principles.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills
• Ability to drive change across the organization. 
• Ability to build strong relationships with both internal and external business partners.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, environment.
• Ability to drive a high level of employee engagement.
• Strategic thinker ability to keep a pulse on both overall company objectives and user needs.
• Self-management – You will set your own strategy and daily tasks; you will ensure your own success.