Sr. Manager - Material Planning

About the role

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which includes Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. It involves Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

Responsibilities

• Oversee all aspects of material planning including coordination with the Program Office, Operations Management, and Supply Chain teams to ensure material availability that supports challenging production targets.
• Manage a Material Planning team of approx. 8-12 specialists (size of team may vary), training and developing them, monitoring and guiding their performance, and performing day-to-day managerial tasks such as representing the organization at meetings, reporting progress to executive leadership, supporting escalations, etc.
• Ensure team’s performance is enabling program milestones and goals to be met while adhering to approved budgets by anticipating potential schedule risks and resolving in a timely manner.
• Define system requirements for planning software and work with the internal technology development team to iterate and introduce new functionality within internal platforms and integration with third party systems.
• Monitor completeness and effectiveness of Planning Attributes within Item Masters to reflect desired batch sizes and reorder points, reducing cost while also preventing stockouts.
• Drive process and system improvements that result in successful orchestration of cross-site material planning, engineering changes, and part lifecycle management.

Qualifications

• Passion for our mission: Millions of people living and working in space!
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience with emphasis in supply chain or business management.
• 10+ years with ERP systems in a manufacturing environment. Significant understanding of MRP is a requirement. Additional experience with MES, PLM, and APS systems is desired.
• 3+ years in a direct management role.
• Highly effective and professional verbal and written communication skills with team, executive leaders, internal customers, and suppliers that includes a strong focus on teamwork and internal/external customer satisfaction.
• A continuous improvement mindset. Our job is never complete; we are always optimizing.

Desired Experience

• Working on development programs or production lines in both leadership and hands-on roles.
• Experience on aerospace or commercial development programs a plus.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; data driven, using input and output metrics and KPIs to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions to improve overall performance of team, systems, and processes.

Culture Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.