Materials Program Manager

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**Job Summary**:
The Materials Program Manager will work with various functions and departments to drive material flow and ensure visibility of current & future material issues. It will be the core member to supporting materials strategy.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:

- A People Manager who will manage a team of Materials Program Manager/Materials Expeditor
- Overseeing the material requirement and supply chain activities for specific programs
- Align material strategies with business strategies and program objectives
- Liase with site planning and supply chain management functions including GSS buyers, Commodity and Project Managers
- Identify and mitigate risks associated with material supply
- Conduct risk assessment & implement effective risk mitigation strategies
- Escalation points of contact for material issues within the program
- Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- Work with Planner to ensure visibility of current & future material issues
- Work with Production Managers to understand Critical Production schedules
- Coordinates demand signals through MRP to minimize inventory exposure.
- Participates in Materials Core Team and coordinates product development process deliverables with team members (buyers, planners, production control).
- Supports the creation, releases, and updates to new project materials strategy.
- Works with engineering to identify preliminary critical parts, long-lead parts and inspection requirements. Assists in developing supplier and commodity road maps to engineering.
- Material risk BOM analysis at project level:

- Design the inventory programs: VMI, JIT, discrete orders, etc. - driving lead-time reduction
- Recommend risk buy or consignment

(This relates to impact inventory liability, inventory turns, cash flow relief, etc. - due to upsides, downside, slow down of businesses more effectively)
- Burst demand request by customers - assess entire BOM materials lead-times, chronic suppliers, customer managed allocations, etc., then present from materials perspective how to support burst demand plan to support operations
- Work closely with Supply Chain Program managers for localization or regionalization of OEM & BTP parts
- Work with SCM on long term supply chain mitigation plan via localization or alternate sourcing to ease the supply chain for the Program/Tool.
- Leads project team that may include different functions and departments to solve supplier long-term issues and improve supplier performance. Provides inputs to engineering and SCM in supplier selection and assessment.
- Analyze system need dates, supplier commitments and current production status to identify critical material issues
- Escalate critical material shortages immediately upon identification and own the efforts to resolve and continue to escalate
- Lead clear to build (CTB) for pre-production build phases
- Propose optimized supply planning to ensure on-time build schedule. Drive closure of materials issues
- Collaborate with supply chain functions for support as needed
- Participates in commercialization (transition) materials plan. Participates in the material change control change process. Assists in supplier price and delivery negotiations; Complete supplier risk assessment on critical and unique parts. Monitor supplier performance (delivery, quality, cost).
- Develop and execute risk/opportunity plans to meet program objectives & proactively manage mitigation plans
- Track KPI’s and generate Reports, Metrics & Presentations
- Attend quarterly SBR with customer and supplier
- Support planning & coordination of new Projects, New components and Engineering Changes and assess the impact to Production Schedules
- Consistently work on Demand & Supply to proactively identify gaps and work with planner buyers and Strategic procurement to eliminate the gaps
- Work with Engineering & Program Management to develop roadmaps for the phase-out of obsolete parts and phase-in of new product materials
- This position will support customers to act as the crucial link between customer and Materials Supply Chain.

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**:

- Demonstrates expanded conceptual knowledge in own discipline and broadens capabilities
- Strategic thinking and communication skills.
- Collaboration and influencing skills demonstrated.
- Sense of urgency.
- Situational leadership.
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