Materials and Purchasing Manager (Finance)
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If you're ready for a challenging career that provides you with the ability to advance personally and professionally, look to Timken. Our associates make the world more productive by improving the efficiency and reliability of the machinery that keeps industry in motion.
What We Offer:
- Competitive Pay
- Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental and vision coverage.
- Benefits start on first day of employment.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with generous company match.
- 10 paid holidays per year plus paid vacation.
- Paid parental leave at one year of service.
- Employee discounts on products and services.
- Education expense reimbursement at one year of service.
- Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
Position Summary:
The purpose of this position is to manage and provide a vision for a wide range of key departments that support the manufacturing process including Production Planning & Scheduling, Logistics, and Inventory Control. This position is responsible for all material planning, material movement, material inventory, material outsource tracking, material packing and logistics of shipping to our customers for the Keene Timken Aerospace plant. Additionally, this position is responsible for the measuring of schedule attainment through providing a levelly loaded plant and monitoring the execution of this plan. This position is responsible for being a key input to the SIOP process and ensuring market changes are reflected into the future schedule as well as communicating changes in resource needs with plant leadership. Provides leadership and assistance to the Plant Manager in identifying and eliminating waste impacting throughput, inventory costs and labor requirements. Given the scope of this position, the Materials Manager will occasionally act as a back up to the Plant Manager and plays a key role on the plant leadership team.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership and direction to Materials Management associates including development of a high-performance team, talent & succession plan development (TMP), performance management, coaching, mentoring, training, resource/business planning, standards and processes. Plays a key role on the plant leadership team
- Lead and partner with the leadership team to drive actions to reduce past due and support OTDp
- Quantify plant capacity on a regular basis and ensure strategy plans are developed to best utilize this capacity. Communicate with plant leadership any predicted changes in capacity needs and recommend course of actions working with OA and Finance.
- Develop inventory strategy including understanding accurate inventory levels which maximizes OTD and reduce costs. Drive inventory reduction initiatives to attain world-class levels.
- Develop Lean TPS strategy for plant supply chain/materials management to identify normal from abnormal conditions and develop waste elimination strategies. Drive Lean concepts and initiatives.
- Develop supplier strategies to ensure correct delivery, quality and supply flow of product from vendors.
- Develop/implement policies and procedures that successfully interpret discrete customer demands and integrates them intothe Master Schedule, while staying within the boundaries of operational capacity.
- Interact with sales/marketing leadership and the customer to ensure scheduling commitments can be met. Partner with quality to reduce internal failures and develop root cause analysis.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in engineering or business
- Strong leadership and decision making capabilities
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong analytical skills with strong computer skills & knowledge of SAP, MRP, and ERP systems
- Planning experience, and capacity modeling experience/ knowledge
- Demonstrated skills in teaching, coaching and training others in material management
- Strong knowledge in Lean basics
Preferred Qualifications:
- APIC Certificiation
- Masters in Business
All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Timken is a global technology leader in engineered bearings and industrial motion. Our expanding portfolio of next-generation solutions helps customers around the world improve efficiency, solve their toughest challenges, and push the boundaries of performance. We employ 19,000 people globally, operate from 45 countries, and posted $4.6 billion in sales in 2024.
We have been recognized as one of America's Most Responsible Companies 5x by Newsweek and one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® 14x by Ethisphere.
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