Materials Manager

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Job Summary

Job Description

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Materials  Manager located in Guadalajara, North Campus.

Reporting to the Director of Materials, Materials Planning Manager role involves being Responsible for maintaining materials/purchasing data, supply data and information to other production departments, coordinate contracts, maintain Certificates of Conformance for all suppliers, and create and maintain outsources parts schedules.

What a typical day looks like:

• Coordinate the planning activities across the site.
• Manages, controls, and directs the activities and staff involved in the distribution of inventory to the production line.
• Manages, controls, and directs staff to achieve Materials profit and loss goals including minimization of excess and obsolete inventory.
• Ensures the timely delivery of materials at the most economical cost, consistent with quality standards, affecting quality by assuring that suspicious material is identified, and that material is handled, stored, and delivered properly.
• Ensures a high degree of customer satisfaction through negotiations of customer expectations and managing and directing staff activities required to meet this expectation.
• Coordinates with customers, purchasing, project managers, operations managers, and warehouse managers.
• In charge of accurate inventory cycle counts, and controls.
• Provides for the proper shipping and documentation of finished goods.
• Develops, implements, and maintains policies, procedures and material control systems.
• Reviews, plans, and approves purchase orders and change notices.
• Reviews purchase order claims and contracts for conformance to company policy.
• In charge of disposition of excess and obsolete materials.
• Travel as required.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent experience and training.
• Outstanding leadership, organizational, multi-tasking and problem-solving skills.
• Senior-level experience in planning and purchasing /
• Senior-level experience in MPS
• Supplier management and escalation handling
• Inventory forecasting
• Strong command of LvC metrics
• E&O (Excess & Obsolete inventory)
• ITO
• People management
• Problem-solving skills
• Independent/self-driven individual
• Customer management
• Fluent English
• Experience with production control and warehouse operations

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Competitive Salary.
• Life & Medical insurance.
• Christmas Bonus.
• Food Coupons.
• Saving Fund.

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Job Category

Global Procurement & Supply Chain

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