Sr. Materials Manager - O'Hara, PA

Bayer•Pittsburgh, PA

1d•$86,320 - $129,480•Onsite

About The Position

This position focuses on overseeing the procurement, storage, and distribution of materials within the supply chain. It involves managing supplier relationships, optimizing inventory levels, and ensuring that materials are available when needed. The role collaborates with production and logistics teams to maintain efficient workflows and minimize costs. The O'Hara, PA location operates Monday to Thursday from 5:30 am to 3:50pm. A Materials Manager at Bayer’s O’Hara site plays a critical role in ensuring materials are available to support manufacturing operations safely, efficiently, and on time. This role is responsible for overseeing material planning, material purchasing, inventory management, supplier coordination, and daily issue resolution to minimize supply disruptions and support production schedules. Working cross-functionally with procurement, production planning, warehouse, quality, and manufacturing teams, the Materials Manager helps balance customer service, inventory health, and operational continuity. A typical day includes reviewing material availability, monitoring shortages and aging inventory, expediting critical components, aligning priorities across functions, and driving actions to address supply risks. This role also supports continuous improvement efforts, strengthens planning discipline, and helps ensure the site can meet business and customer needs in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Requirements

BA/BS required in (Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Mathematics, Business, Information Technology)
Significant experience in a Product Supply discipline
Excellent presentation, training, and interpersonal skills
Ability to influence other members of the organization to help achieve goals and increase performance
Ability to build relationships and partnerships within the organization
Ability to manage projects of high complexity with no or limited direction
Demonstrated problem solving abilities
Strong attention to detail
Proficient with Microsoft Office tools
Proficient in SAP in various modules (MM/PP/WM)

Nice To Haves

5+ years of total experience, including minimum of 3 years’ experience in a Product Supply discipline.

Responsibilities

Identifies projects and initiatives to increase efficiencies and drives resolution of detailed plans for assigned planning area of responsibility, necessary to achieve customer delivery commitments and to maintain inventory targets, where applicable
Develop alternative solutions for the analysis of supply shortfalls impacting internal and/or external customer requirements and ensure root cause identification, corrective action determination and implementation
Handles complex procurement problems independently, utilizing financial, operational and business judgment and the ability to adapt to ambiguous conditions
Responsible for and maintains SAP planning parameters for assigned area of responsibility
Utilizes delegation to expand scope of influence