Materials Manager at Overhead Door Corporation in Marion, Ohio

Job Description:

Position Summary:

The position will be responsible for purchasing, planning, and inventory control activities for two manufacturing operations /warehouses in a build to order environment.

 Essential Functions / Responsibilities:

• Drive material demand for Purchasing, monitoring availability of purchased items to ensure support of production schedules.


• Manage the purchasing function to include leveraging the functionalized commodity structure, identifying alternate vendors, and purchasing high volume items and materials.


• Working in a dual role as a Senior Buyer, execute daily purchasing tasks to ensure timely and accurate support of production needs at both factories. 


• Working with the Corporate Commodity Management Team, negotiate pricing and develop cost benefit analysis’ and make buy assessments with the commodity sourcing structure.


• Coordinate intercompany movements of materials/products 


• Lead Operational Effort to reduce inventories while maintaining customer service levels.


• Maintain an accurate capacity plan and material forecast to ensure production readiness and customer fulfillment.


• Review New Product Introductions, and Promotion calendar to ensure that Supply Chain can support all program requirements.


• Interact frequently with Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Operations, and manufacturing personnel to accomplish objectives.


• Effectively utilize the Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) and Oracle EBS in performance of duties and responsibilities.


• Periodic travel to maquiladora plant in Tecate Mexico.

 Educational & Qualifications Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in Business or Technical field required.


• Minimum 8 years professional experience in discrete manufacturing planning, scheduling, and purchasing using formal MRP-Supply Chain Planning and ERP system (preferably Oracle) with 2 years of leadership experience required.


• Heavy exposure or direct experience in material planning, purchasing and inventory management required. 


• APICS certification highly desirable.


• Proficient skills with Microsoft Office Suite especially Excel.


• Bilingual in Spanish a plus but not required.