About This Role
Managing materials projects is the core of this role, focusing on forecasting, communication with suppliers, and resolving quality issues. This position suits a professional with expertise in inventory management and a strong understanding of supply chain dynamics.
Responsibilities
- Forecast and communicate engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers regarding rework opportunities for excess and/or zero demand items resulting from supply and demand changes or ECR activity
- Provide inputs to the BU Materials' teams determination of maintaining backup stock during high-demand periods considering the lead time, last time buy, end of life and MOQ in alignment with buyers and materials planners
- Actively mediate and partner with quality and engineering teams to resolve supplier quality issues for assigned product groups
- Escalate issues to Commodity Business Managers when necessary
- Work with buyers and MPMs to cancel PO's placed with no demand or demand drop
- Analyze the demand in other plants in SAP and transfer the PO to required plant in SAP via STO/ICTO
- For excess materials which cannot be consumed, validate if rework into another usable part for different products within an organization is feasible and tend to the execution of that rework
- Work with buyers to sell-back excess parts at the cost of a fee per alignment with vendor
- Align with part designers to scrap if no other usage on excess materials
Requirements
- Demonstrates conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines
- Understands and is able to leverage extensive use of inventory management systems, Excel, Kinaxis and Tableau to develop accurate product analysis summaries
- Should understand how to utilize SAP, CORE, Teamcenter; how to interpret drawings and apply product knowledge to rework estimations from supplier
- Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements
- Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
- Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies
- Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus
Benefits
- Programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth
- Care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go
