Materials Manager (Supply Chain / Warehouse Leadership)

BASIC FUNCTION:

Assist new Rockwall, TX plant startup with overseeing warehouse organization, shipping, receiving, inventory control, and demand planning. This role will also require daily support and utilization of the facility’s ERP system, Batch Master and interactions with purchasing. Ultimate goal is to support plant in keeping operations supplied with day to inventory needs, maintaining clean warehouse areas (ie supporting GMPs), and ensuring customer orders are fulfilled on time.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop, implement and manage cross-functional, fully integrated planning process that incorporates capacity planning, scheduling, inventory, material and associated cost elements.
• Performs analysis of customer demand, sales forecasts and historical material usage to develop and execute build to order and build to forecast plans.
• Coordinate with cross-functional business teams to develop the best economic strategy for production planning to support customer demand.
• Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control.
• Prepares customer delivery reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends and uses information to proactively communicate potential late deliveries.
• Establishes and supervises production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules.
• Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, production teams to ensure 100% on-time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedule to proactively identify and address any issues.
• Responsible for accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing, in conjunction with Finance, an inventory control system, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies in the future.
• Participates in management meetings to resolve quality issues working with both internal and external resources.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Process Engineering and Quality to achieve cost reduction targets and process optimization, including process engineering support, as needed.
• Maintains a safe and healthy work environment by implementing, maintaining and aligning company policies that adhere to local, state and federal environmental, health and safety regulations.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• BS degree in business, management, supply chain, engineering or other related discipline.
• Experience demand planning in a food manufacturing environment, as well as warehousing experience (also with food).
• Working knowledge and understanding of ERP/MRP systems and their use in a manufacturing environment. BatchMaster a PLUS
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Access.
• Ability to demonstrate solid written and oral communication skills in both English and Spanish (preferred).
• Maintain and provide current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends.
• Identify tools, processes and metrics to optimize supplier value.
• Leads by example and motivates people so as to create a challenging, empowering, and collaborative working environment.
• Good technical writing, documentation, and record keeping skills.
• Good analytical problem solving ability.
• Ability to contribute in a cross functional collaborative environment.
• Ability to leverage metrics and other tools to drive supplier performance.

Job Type: Full-time

Experience:

• demand planning: 3 years
• Cycle Count: 3 years
• Food Manufacturing: 3 years
• ERP: 3 years
• Supply Chain: 3 years
• Shipping: 3 years

Education:

• High school

Location:

• Rockwall, TX

Required work authorization:

• United States