Materials Manager

Job Responsibilities

• Develops and provides operational strategic direction for North American Product Business Unit Materials team.
• Supports world-class practices by leading and facilitating efforts in Purchasing, Supplier Quality and Logistics.
• Develops long-term corporate goals and translates them into short-term plans in support of business objectives.
• Maintains leadership role working with suppliers and Product Business Unit to coordinate operations and/or project requirements.
• Manages department wide programs and interfaces globally to develop new business growth opportunities.
• Develops, manages, and coordinates a quality supplier base.
• Leads, manages, and monitors all or some of the following: inventory levels, on-time shipment of finished goods, warehousing/shipping of goods, procurement/receipt/storage of raw materials, and/or transportation/distribution methods.
• Coordinates production/planning activities of staff to ensure that departmental needs are met in a timely manner.
• Researches, recommends, and implements new policies, products, and strategic changes in order to meet project and program long-term objectives and goals.
• Establishes planning and control measures in Total Quality Management (TQM) format to improve quality, cost, and delivery.
• Understands customer requirements, expectations, and contracts.
• Develops and implements materials policies, procedures, and practices in support of company and customer standards.
• Performs other duties as necessary in support of business objectives.

Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Develops and provides operational level strategic direction for North American Product Business Unit Materials activity.
• Represents assigned function by setting operational level strategy and determining how to implement strategic functional directives.
• Manages department wide programs and interfaces globally to develop new business growth opportunities.
• Researches and recommends new products, processes, systems, policies, and procedures to pursue in the future.
• Leads, manages and monitors all or some of the following: inventory levels, on-time shipment of finished goods, warehousing/shipping of goods, procurement/receipt/storage of raw materials, and/or transportation/distribution methods.
• Coordinates production/planning activities of staff to ensure that departmental needs are met in a timely manner.
• Develops long-term corporate goals and translates them into short-term plans in support of business objectives.
• Prepares and maintains yearly business plans and budget for purchasing team in support of corporate goals and objectives.
• Develops, maintains, and coordinates a quality supplier base.
• Maintains leadership role working with suppliers and Product Business Unit to coordinate operations and/or project requirements in support of product development, supplier partnerships, cost reductions, and quality assurance.
• Assists suppliers with problem resolution in their areas and provides customer liaison support.
• Manages Materials function as assigned; ensures support of Operations and/or programs in Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE), supplier improvement, and post-launch support.
• Leads and manages staff; plans, organizes, directs, implements, and maintains group strategies and objectives.
• Maintains appropriate level of staff support necessary to meet business and budgetary goals and objectives.
• Provides leadership and support to staff and assists in employees’ skill development.
• Directs use of quality standards with the Corporate Materials function.
• Represents one or more Corporate Materials functions in implementation and maintenance of Magna Donnelly Quality System and Program Management Process.
• Manages purchasing function to ensure world-class quality and on-time delivery at a competitive cost.
• Researches, recommends, and implements new policies, products, and strategic changes in order to meet project and program long-term objectives and goals including staffing, suppliers, products/processes, technologies, program management, etc.
• Works closely with many departments to provide leadership and coordination for purchasing staff.
• Establishes planning and control measures in TQM format, focusing on improvements in quality, cost and delivery.
• Makes sure cost savings are promoted and provides leadership in support of goals and VA/VE efforts driven by tool area and other functions.
• Thoroughly understands customer requirements, expectations, and contracts.
• Develops and implements purchasing policies, procedures, and practices in support of company and customer standards.
• Performs other duties as necessary in support of business objectives.
• Negotiates and/or oversees negotiation of favorable contracts with world-class suppliers.
• Guides and develops relationships between Materials and other key functional areas.