Materials Manager

Division: BENTELER Automotive Functional Area: Supply Chain Management Career Level: Professional Contract Type: Short-term/Full-time Weekly Working Hours: 40,00 Required Languages: English Requisition ID: 45973

Benefits:

• United States : Dental
• United States : 401(k) Match
• United States : Development
• United States : Educational Assistance
• United States : Flexible Work Schedules
• United States : Health Savings Accounts
• United States : Holidays
• United States : Life & Disability
• United States : Medical
• United States : Training
• United States : Vacation
• United States : Vision
• United States : Wealth Management

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Core Responsibilities:

• Supports Materials and Production Planner
• Coach/Mentor the staff
• Manages department training matrix
• Ensures sustainable implementation and the continuous optimization and improvements of all processes in the responsible area
• Ensures compliance with global/regional standard processes and regulations
• Reduces daily business SC costs and ensures a high delivery performance to all customers
• Optimizes and manages the stocks of stored material; ensures physical stock compliance through accurate SAP postings and values
• Ensures the usage of standard SAP transactions
• Handles SAP Idocs or manual call offs and ensures the elimination of root cause in case of nonconforming Idoc data
• Ensures the sales and operations planning
• Ensures the evaluation of customer call offs vs contracted volume
• Ensures the monitoring and maintenance of production capacity (short, mid-term)
• Ensures production scheduling in SAP
• Ensures the run up of new projects with out material shortages and the end of production according to the global standard process
• Implements operational SC targets and initiates countermeasures in case of deviations
• Inventory management
• Avoids special freights and ensure the compliance with transport cost budget
• Ensures a high customer satisfaction and avoid customer violations (complaints)
• Ensures compliance with all operations SCM targets
• Ensuring the accurate SCM reporting
• Manages Customer PDCAs, 8D
• Manages Special Freight PDCAs
• Manages Cycle Count PDCAs, Inventory accuracy
• Immediate escalation to Plant SCM for any deviations to plan or budget
• Implements the machine capacity planning tool for the production lines and ensures the accurate usage; initiates promptly countermeasures in case of production capacity issues (Only Component Plants)
• Ensures in the responsible area if the SC related data are administered correctly in SAP; monitors the SAP parameters, quality of SC master data and ensures faultless MRP and initiates countermeasures in case of mistakes
• DQI Monitor
• Combined with Mater data administrator
• Transfers local operational SC processes into SAP and ensures that all interfaces are met
• Implements and ensures that customer requirements are met
• Conducts training reg. regional customer manual in the plant and ensures that the planners work accordingly
• Reduces working capital according to BOSLE principles; increases delivery services
• Manages the stocks days on hand (finish, raw, semi finish material)
• Manages Working Capital
• Monitors / Reviews production build schedules
• Conducts SAP reports to track material and produced parts
• Avoids material shortages and manages bottle necks in Supply Chains to increase the delivery performance to the customer
• Conducts inventory cross checks
• Inventory Control
• Cycle Count/ Inventory Lead
• COGI

Promotes a respectful work environment and recruits, develops and retains (functionally and disciplinarily reporting) maintain a qualified, motivated and productive workforce. Leads by example and lives up to Benteler's mission, values and global leadership principles. Uses standard HR tools e.g. the appraisal process to provide regular feedback and agree upon tasks and goals with respective employees.

Job Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in economics, Mechanical Engineering or Operations Management, advanced education preferred
• Years of working experience: 5 years' experience in Materials/Logistics, inventory management experience, customer service experience, profound SAP knowledge required, some leadership responsibility
• Years of industry experience: 5 years of automotive experience
• Certifications: APICS Certification preferred

Contact: Susan Adams BENTELER Human Resources Susan.Adams@BENTELER.com