Senior Manager, Material Planning
About The Position
This role establishes policies and directs strategies, tools, processes, and personnel for raw-component-level planning. Its scope includes component yield planning, lineside kanban sizing, MRP plan-load accuracy, ECO process guidance, and component planning and excess-and-obsolete (E&O) mitigation for major product transitions and chronic shortages. The position works with Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Service teams to streamline component planning and material flow and improve operational performance, including shortage recovery and movement of components from warehouses to production lines. The role oversees component-level MRP integrity, buffering and inventory strategies, E&O analysis, yield planning reviews, and material-load processes. It leads lineside kanban sizing and implementation, shortage recovery and material-flow improvements, inter-factory material transfers and raw-material allocation, and planning actions for product transitions and new-product-introduction materials. It also establishes performance metrics and supports enhancements to planning tools and ERP/MRP functionality. The position involves approximately 20% travel to domestic and international operating sites.
Requirements
- Detailed understanding of material planning, demand scheduling, and supply planning.
- Strong knowledge of ERP systems and advanced planning systems.
- Process-driven mindset, data and analytical capabilities, problem-solving ability, and ability to develop future system and process solutions.
- Ability to resolve conflicts, build consensus, and gain stakeholder commitment.
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional colleagues in matrixed, multinational environments and promote best practices in systems, tools, processes, and planning competencies.
- Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and executive communication skills, with the ability to interact professionally with diverse internal customers.
- Master's or bachelor's degree, or equivalent.
- 12 or more years of experience in production planning, demand/supply planning, purchasing, or inventory management.
- At least 5 years of experience directly managing high-performing teams.
- Ability to travel approximately 20% to domestic and international operating sites.
Nice To Haves
- Multi-plant work experience.
- Experience in medium-to-large medical-device manufacturing organizations and multinational, cross-matrixed management settings.
- Master's-level degree in engineering, supply chain/business management, or finance.
- Significant experience with core business systems, including SAP, Agile, and advanced planning solutions.
Responsibilities
- Understand finished-goods and subassembly demand and communicate demand changes at the component level.
- Maintain component-level MRP integrity and oversee component buffering, inventory strategies, E&O analysis, and root-cause analysis.
- Lead component-level yield-planning reviews and material-load processes in collaboration with Procurement, using historical trends, forward planning, and scrap-reduction opportunities.
- Lead lineside kanban sizing and closed-loop implementation of recommended sizing with Manufacturing, Warehouse, and Inventory Control teams.
- Work with Production Planning and Manufacturing to identify chronic shortages and coordinate critical priorities and recovery plans with Procurement.
- Improve material-flow processes from warehouses to manufacturing lines.
- Manage material flow between factories, including transfers and allocation of raw materials across production lines, warehouses, and factory locations.
- Coordinate planning and procurement for major product transitions to minimize raw-material E&O through communication, best-practice sharing, impact assessment, and mitigation actions.
- Supervise alternate-parts planning to ensure raw-component data integrity.
- Drive periodic review and cleanup of NPI planning materials in NPI locations.
- Establish key performance metrics and facilitate improvements to planning tools and ERP/MRP system functionality for scalable raw-material planning and MRP integrity.
- Lead operational-excellence projects and initiatives to drive business outcomes.
- Direct planning activities, personnel, policies, and strategies for raw-component-level planning.
Benefits
- Market-competitive compensation package including base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
