Global Materials Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Continually monitor and assess trends affecting IEWC’s Sourcing and Materials strategies.
• Champion the S&OP process. Review product activities, demand plans, supply plans, performance metrics.
• Work with functions to develop top level business demand intelligence.
• Communicate supply changes to global functions.
• Prepare and deliver presentations on a regular basis.
• Own the supply plan within the S&OP process, ensuring alignment with demand forecasts, production capacity, and inventory policies.
• Monitor and drive key supply metrics including inventory turns, stock levels, service levels, and working capital.
• Ensure efficient and cost-effective material movements across facilities, manage inventory investment, and mitigate supply disruptions.
• Establish and maintain standardized materials management practices, leveraging data insights and collaborative inputs.
• Drive desk efficiencies and operational automation opportunities.
• Provide thought leadership in bringing solutions through process improvement, best practices, tools, and technology that will continue to set IEWC apart from its competition.
• Promote process excellence, continuous improvement, and identify best practices globally.
• Create a sound Global Materials Management strategic plan that supports market vertical business plans.
• Lead supplier relationships and manage supplier performance to ensure great supplier and customer experience.
• Collaborate across all IEWC’s Divisional and Corporate Unit activities to develop and support the goals, objectives and forward plan of the Company.
• Prioritize activities and the allocation of resources in, balancing the short-term interests and the long-term interests.
• Effectively create and support process enhancement initiatives to maintain an environment of continuous improvement throughout the organization.
• Balance empowerment of all employees with appropriate controls.
• Provide leadership, coaching, guidance, and direct daily operations of a team of materials management professionals to achieve work objectives and improve performance and skills.
• Empower team members to resolve issues by delegating tasks to the appropriate level.
• Ensure every department team member is partnering effectively with sales to balance off the needs of the customer, the supplier and IEWC.
• Ensure working knowledge of differences between divisional roles & responsibilities and corporate roles & responsibilities.

Technical Skills

• Ability to work in a Windows environment.
• Possess advanced skills in Microsoft Excel—Pivot Tables and formula calculations, PowerPoint and Word.
• SAP experience is preferred.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and get to the root cause.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical and business information and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Education and/or Experience

• A bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Operations, Industrial Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of progressively responsible related experience; or a combination of education and experience.

Computer Applications Skills

• Ability to work in a Windows environment.
• Possess advanced skills in Microsoft Excel—Pivot Tables and formula calculations, PowerPoint and Word.
• SAP experience is preferred.