Materials Manager

About Us

Ingersoll Rand has dedicated itself to Making Life Better for its employees, customers, shareholders, and planet. We produce innovative and mission-critical flow creation and life science technologies—from compressors to precision handling of liquids, gasses, and powders—to increase industrial productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. Supported by over 80+ brands, our products are used in various end-markets including life sciences, food and beverage, clean energy, industrial manufacturing, infrastructure, and more. Across the globe, we’re driving growth with an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset.

Job Overview

As Manager, Materials at the Ingersoll Rand West Chester site, you own the flow of materials, teams, and execution across a high-velocity manufacturing operation. You’ll lead an integrated network of material planning, buyer/planners, and production scheduling, ensuring seamless alignment from demand through delivery in a fast-paced, just-in-time, make-to-order environment. This role carries full accountability for materials planning, inventory strategy, and supply execution, making you a key driver of plant performance, scalability, and continuous improvement. You will also own warehouse operations and inventory control end-to-end, ensuring accuracy, discipline, and integrity across physical inventory and cycle count processes. In addition, you will lead shipping and receiving operations through a supervisor and broader team responsible for inbound, outbound, and traffic execution—ensuring materials move with speed and precision across the site.

Deeply embedded in Lean and continuous improvement, this role drives impact across key KPIs including inventory turns, on-time shipping to request date, and days past due, while strengthening overall supply chain performance. You will ensure uninterrupted material availability to support production, proactively closing gaps, removing constraints, and elevating execution across the operation. This is a hands-on leadership role expected to step in during critical periods such as month-end close, peak shipping or receiving volumes, and urgent customer demands.

Responsibilities

• Safety: Foster a safety culture and implement safety policies and training in compliance with the company safety program and OSHA regulations to eliminate work-related injuries.
• Inventory Control: Plan, order, execute, and manage storage of critical raw materials in accordance with supplier selections and guidelines provided by Sourcing Operations using SAP/MRP system to achieve the Master Schedule and service requirements. Oversee Lean raw material replenishment and storage on the production floor, including initial set up, daily usage estimates, trigger points, and reorder quantities. Coordinate with other facilities to forecast any remanufactured product requirements.
• Strategy: Deploy strategic objectives into annual goals and individual KPIs across the organization by working with teams to set appropriate targets to build daily and monthly routines to manage the business.
• Product Lifecycle: Plan for material life cycle management and eliminate obsolete inventory items while working to reduce waste through the value chain. Develop and monitor compliance with requirements related to the introduction of new products.
• Management: Develop employees through recruitment, training, coaching and establishing goals and objectives.
• Problem Solving Culture: Develop a culture tied to Daily Management by leveraging tools, consulting skills, and change management processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of experience in the integrated functions of materials management in a manufacturing environment that has embraced lean concepts, MRP manufacturing practices, and progressive supplier relationships
• 5+ years of ERP System experience (SAP, Oracle, etc.)
• 3+ years of managerial experience focusing on standardizing planning & execution, reducing sourcing complexity, and talent development
• 3+ years of experience driving cross-functional alignment across operations, supply chain, and production planning teams to execute on business objectives

Core Competencies

• Integrated Materials & Inventory Leadership: Leads end-to-end materials management across planning, procurement, and inventory in a Lean, MRP environment—ensuring material availability while optimizing flow, replenishment (Kanban), and inventory levels.
• Operational Execution & Continuous Improvement: Drives disciplined execution in a high-velocity, JIT environment. Identifies gaps, implements Lean improvements, and delivers on KPIs—inventory turns, on-time delivery, and past due reduction.
• Strategic Planning & Lifecycle Management: Translates business objectives into clear plans and KPIs. Oversees material lifecycle, including new product introduction and obsolescence reduction, to minimize waste and complexity.
• People Leadership, Culture & Problem Solving: Builds and develops teams through coaching and accountability. Fosters a safety-first, problem-solving culture using data, daily management, and effective change leadership.

Preferences

• Bachelor’s concentration (or international equivalent) in materials management, business, management or related degree
• APICS Certification in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)
• Experience implementing inventory control systems (Kanban) in a manufacturing environment
• Experience in operations, inventory management, MRP and lean manufacturing processes
• Experience with visual and daily management systems

Travel & Work Arrangements

Position is based on-site in West Chester, PA.

Benefits

• Health care options including medical and prescription plans, dental and vision coverage, and wellness programs
• Life insurance
• Robust 401(k) plan
• Paid time off
• Employee stock grant