Materials Mgmt 3
The Regional Leader is responsible for driving operational excellence across all material functions, including procurement, planning, and warehousing. This involves leading strategic planning to maintain and improve execution, providing training and guidance for site material leaders, and driving the development of site planning and inventory strategies. They will monitor team performance and metrics, incorporating the planning and inventory vision into all elements of the plan. A key aspect of this role is recognizing subject matter experts in planning and inventory processes, tools, and applications, as well as managing a team of direct and indirect resources to effectively support the execution of strategy deployment plans. This role also contributes to multi-functional, regional, or global assignments.
Key activities include:
* Providing coaching and support for various cross-functional teams and offering direction on demand/supply for customers, material agility initiatives, and overall material continuous improvement.
* Overseeing and mentoring a team of materials managers and staff, which includes providing training, setting performance goals, and ensuring adherence to standard processes.
* Driving supply chain improvement initiatives with sites to support customer needs.
* Preparing detailed reports on inventory levels, operational performance, and planning and purchasing execution for senior management.
* Stepping up in strategic planning, monitoring demand management, and providing guidance to detect opportunities and risks, as well as leading conversations with senior management to secure good planning alignment.
* Driving site engagement on demand planning, demand management, and collaboration while improving the process.
* Providing direction and support to site GAP inventory reviews.
* Tracking and driving inventory results by working with Material Managers and Plant Managers.
* Managing the purchasing process, ensuring data integrity, benchmarking best practices across sites, and monitoring performance.
* Supporting the development of delivery requirements, material plans, and short-range capacity plans to meet production schedules and inventory objectives.
* Providing support to the team on managing material availability to support build plans throughout the product life cycle for a specific business unit or customer set.
Below are the skils required for this position.
- Takes time to explain to others how work should be done, giving detailed instructions and offering helpful suggestions.
- Conveys ideas appropriately, ensuring that people receive and interpret messages correctly.
- Maintains an attitude of availability and interest in identifying, understanding, and addressing customer needs.
- Promotes changes in processes, services, or relationships as required by the situation and provides coaching to employees so they can develop these changes within their respective work teams.
- Conducts training activities for members of his or her department and motivates them to take action aimed at achieving improved performance and professional development.
- Ability to use tools and methodologies to design and prepare the strategy for each negotiation, reach satisfactory agreements, and collaborate in other negotiation processes.
- Anticipates critical aspects of a situation or problem with a large number of variables, establishing control points and coordination mechanisms, verifying data, and seeking external information to ensure process quality. Ability to simultaneously manage several complex projects.
- Achieves high levels of performance, schedules tasks, and establishes methods and procedures to achieve the best results in the shortest possible time.
- Develops complex solutions, demonstrating creativity in their design.
- Evaluates decisions based on the results achieved and makes modifications if necessary.
- Helps the team focus on goals and supports and encourages team members' team activities.
