Materials Manager

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The Materials Manager is responsible for end-to-end materials planning, inventory management, logistics, warehousing, and supplier delivery performance for the Operation. This role leads the processes and team required to ensure uninterrupted production, reliable customer delivery, disciplined inventory investment, and effective working-capital management. The Materials Manager partners closely with Operations, Strategic Sourcing, Finance, Quality, Engineering, Sales, and suppliers to translate customer demand into an executable supply plan and to proactively manage constraints, changes, and risks.

Key Responsibilities

Materials Planning and Production Control

•             Lead the sales, inventory, and operations planning process at the plant level, converting customer forecasts and orders into achievable production and material plans.

•             Own material requirements planning parameters, planning calendars, order policies, lead times, safety stocks, and production schedules to support service, cost, and inventory objectives.

•             Establish clear-to-build visibility and daily constraint management for all production programs.

•             Ensure timely identification, escalation, and recovery of shortages, capacity constraints, schedule changes, and obsolescence risks.

•             Coordinate engineering changes, new product launches, product transfers, and end-of-life transitions to protect supply continuity and minimize excess inventory.

Inventory and Working Capital

•             Own plant inventory accuracy, turns, days on hand, excess and obsolete inventory, cycle counting, and material disposition processes.

•             Develop and execute inventory reduction plans while maintaining production continuity and customer service.

•             Ensure disciplined transaction control, bill-of-materials accuracy, receiving, storage, issue, transfer, and shipping practices.

•             Partner with Finance to reconcile inventory variances, reserves, premium freight, and working-capital performance.

•             Maintain effective controls for customer-owned, supplier-owned, consigned, and returnable packaging assets.

Supply, Logistics, and Customer Delivery

•             Monitor supplier schedules and delivery performance; coordinate recovery actions with Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Development when performance places production or customer delivery at risk.

•             Direct inbound and outbound logistics, warehousing, material flow, packaging, and transportation activities.

•             Achieve customer delivery requirements through strong order management, shipment execution, and communication of risks and recovery plans.

•             Reduce premium freight and prevent recurrence through structured root-cause analysis and corrective action.

•             Ensure compliance with applicable customs, trade, security, transportation, and record-retention requirements for cross-border material movements.

Operational Excellence and Systems

•             Establish standard work, visual management, tiered accountability, and key performance indicators for the materials organization.

•             Lead continuous improvement initiatives that improve schedule attainment, material flow, inventory velocity, warehouse productivity, and planning stability.

•             Maintain data integrity and effective use of the enterprise resource planning system and supporting supply-chain tools.

•             Support internal and external audits and ensure compliance with company policies, quality systems, and customer-specific requirements.

•             Use data and structured problem-solving to identify trends, prioritize actions, and sustain corrective measures.

People Leadership and Cross-Functional Partnership

•             Build, coach, and develop a capable materials team with clear roles, objectives, succession plans, and accountability.

•             Promote a culture of safety, urgency, collaboration, fact-based decision-making, and continuous improvement.

•             Partner with Operations on production priorities and labor-capacity alignment; with Quality on containment and supplier issues; with Engineering on changes and launches; and with Strategic Sourcing on supplier risk and commercial actions.

•             Communicate supply-chain performance, risks, decisions, and required support to plant and business-unit leadership.

•             Serve as the primary plant leader for material availability, inventory health, customer delivery, and logistics execution.

Required Qualifications

•             Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Logistics, or a related field.

•             Five or more years of progressive experience in materials management, planning, production control, logistics, or supply chain within a manufacturing environment.

•             Three or more years of direct people-leadership experience.

•             Demonstrated experience with material requirements planning, inventory control, master scheduling, warehousing, supplier delivery management, and customer fulfillment.

•             Strong ERP and data-analysis capability; proficiency in Microsoft Excel and supply-chain reporting tools.

•             Working knowledge of lean manufacturing, root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, and quality-management systems.

•             Professional fluency in Spanish and English, including the ability to communicate effectively with plant, business-unit, customer, and supplier stakeholders.

•             Ability to work on-site at the Aldama Operation and travel as business needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

•             APICS CPIM or CSCP, ASCM certification, or equivalent supply-chain credential.

•             Experience in automotive, commercial vehicle, electrical distribution systems, wire harnesses, or another high-mix, customer-driven manufacturing environment.

•             Experience supporting cross-border Mexico–United States supply chains, import/export activity, and customer-specific logistics requirements.

•             Experience with new product launches, plant transfers, demand volatility, and supplier recovery.

•             Knowledge of ISO 9001, IATF 16949, or comparable quality-management requirements.

CVG IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Commercial Vehicle Group, Inc (CVG) is an equal employment opportunity employer such that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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