Manager IV, Materials Project Management

Applied Materials • Santa Clara, CA

11d • Onsite

About The Position

Manager IV, Materials Project Management at Applied Materials is a leadership role responsible for developing, implementing, and managing cross-functional planning processes. This includes make versus buy decisions, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory management, and cost control. The role involves analyzing customer demand, sales forecasts, and historical material usage to create build-to-order and build-to-forecast plans. It also requires coordinating with business teams to optimize production planning for cost-effectiveness and customer demand fulfillment. The position is crucial for establishing and managing inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control systems, ensuring accurate inventory counts, and developing sourcing strategies to meet business growth and requirements. The manager will also build and maintain relationships with suppliers, monitor their performance, and collaborate with various departments to ensure on-time delivery. This role represents the materials organization on corporate task forces and manages the department budget, costs, and resources.

Requirements

• Demonstrates in-depth understanding of concepts, theories and principles in own job family and basic knowledge of other related job families
• Applies understanding of the industry and how own area contributes to the achievement of objectives
• Manages a generally homogeneous team; adapts plans and priorities to meet service and/or operational challenges
• Identifies and resolves technical, operational and organizational problems
• Impacts the level of service and the team’s ability to meet quality, volume, and timeliness objectives
• Guided by policies and resource requirements within business unit, department or sub-function
• Guides, influences and persuades others internally in related areas or externally
• Position requires understanding of Applied Materials global Standards of Business Conduct and compliance with these standards at all times.
• This includes demonstrating the highest level of ethical conduct reflecting Applied Materials' core values.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and manage cross-functional, fully integrated planning process that incorporates make vesus buy, 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-funtional business teams to develop best cost 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.
• Establishes and manages production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules.
• Responsible for accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing, in conjunction with Finance, and inventory control system, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies in the future.
• Develop and execute a sourcing strategy to meet the company's business growth and sourcing requirements.
• Identify, develop, and manage effective relationship with existing and potential suppliers of goods and services to meet the established cost, quality and delivery targets.
• Establish, implement, and manage system to evaluate, monitor and report supplier scorecard performance.
• Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, machining, and assembly operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedule to proactively identify and address any issues.
• Represents materials organization on corporate materials task force teams.
• Manages department budget, associated costs and resources.

Benefits

• Supportive work culture that encourages learning, development, and career growth
• Opportunities to take on challenges and drive innovative solutions
• Empowerment to push boundaries and learn every day
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Potential eligibility for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed