Materials Manager

Magna Mechatronics, Mirrors & Lighting

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Job Title: North American Product Business Unit Materials Manager

Job Responsibilities:

Develops and provides operational strategic direction for North American Product Business Unit Materials team responsible for leading and facilitation efforts in Purchasing, Supplier Quality and Logistics in an effort to support world-class practices. 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. Develops, maintains, and coordinates a quality supplier base. Supports corporate strategies by assessing, developing and monitoring supplier base for quality systems. Maintains leadership role working with suppliers and Product Business Unit to coordinate operations and/or project requirements. Leads, manages, and maintains appropriate level of staff and manages materials function to ensure world-class quality and on-time delivery at a competitive cost. Develops, manages, master production schedule by utilizing input from sales forecast customer demand, material availability, capacity planning to ensure management goals and objectives are met. 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.

Education, Experience, Skills:

Level I: Bachelor's degree in business or related field including four years materials experience; or equivalent. Demonstrate current knowledge of world-class practices in materials management. Experience in automotive industry preferred. Eight years diverse professional and managerial experience including financial/budget responsibility, management leadership and strategic decision making/leadership. Demonstrated project management skills and proven financial capabilities to maintain quality, cost, and timing of programs. Demonstrated ability to develop a cohesive, world-class materials team. Demonstrated ability to lead and develop others through support, training, etc. Must be able to manage staff toward departmental goals. Demonstrated strong communication and negotiation skills to work with internal and external contacts at various levels within organizations to represent the company in a professional manner and sell concepts to customers and strategies to internal management. Must be able to work with peers in a positive, cooperative way and develop and maintain productive relationships with key functional areas.

Level II (in addition to above requirements): Master's degree including eight years experience in materials management; or equivalent. Possess high degree of knowledge and expertise in area of materials management, manufacturing, product/process design, operations, quality, planning, etc. Must thoroughly understand, and be able to communicate to others, the interrelationship of Materials with other departments.

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