Materials Planning & Supply Chain Lead

cvgrp; Chiapas; On-site; MXN 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

cvgrp is seeking a Materials Manager to lead end-to-end planning, inventory control, logistics, warehousing, and supplier delivery performance at the plant.

You will collaborate with Operations, Sourcing, Finance, Quality, Engineering, Sales, and suppliers to translate demand into a robust supply plan and manage constraints, changes, and risks to ensure uninterrupted production and on-time customer delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Logistics, or a related field.
• Five or more years of progressive experience in materials management, planning, production control, logistics, or supply chain within a manufacturing environment.
• Three or more years of direct people-leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience with material requirements planning, inventory control, master scheduling, warehousing, supplier delivery management, and customer fulfillment.
• Strong ERP and data-analysis capability; proficiency in Microsoft Excel and supply-chain reporting tools.
• Working knowledge of lean

Responsibilities

• Lead the sales, inventory, and operations planning process at the plant level, converting customer forecasts and orders into achievable production and material plans.
• Own material requirements planning parameters, planning calendars, order policies, lead times, safety stocks, and production schedules to support service, cost, and inventory objectives.
• Establish clear-to-build visibility and daily constraint management for all production programs.
• Ensure timely identification, escalation, and recovery of shortages, capacity constraints, schedule changes, and obsolescence risks.
• Coordinate engineering changes, new product launches, product transfers, and end-of-life transitions to protect supply continuity and minimize excess inventory.
• Own plant inventory accuracy, turns, days on hand, excess and obsolete inventory, cycle counting, and material disposition processes.
• Develop and execute inventory reduction plans while maintaining production continuity and customer service.
• Ensure disciplined transaction control, bill-of-materials accuracy, receiving, storage, issue, transfer, and shipping practices.
• Partner with Finance to reconcile inventory variances, reserves, premium freight, and working-capital performance.
• Maintain effective controls for customer-owned, supplier-owned, consigned, and returnable packaging assets.
• Monitor supplier schedules and delivery performance; coordinate recovery actions with Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Development when performance places production or customer delivery at risk.
• Direct inbound and outbound logistics, warehousing, material flow, packaging, and transportation activities.
• Achieve customer delivery requirements through strong order management, shipment execution, and communication of risks and recovery plans.
• Reduce premium freight and prevent recurrence through structured root-cause analysis and corrective action.
• Ensure compliance with applicable customs, trade, security, transportation, and record-retention requirements for cross-border material movements.
• Establish standard work, visual management, tiered accountability, and key performance indicators for the materials organization.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that improve schedule attainment, material flow, inventory velocity, warehouse productivity, and planning stability.
• Maintain data integrity and effective use of the enterprise resource planning system and supporting supply-chain tools.
• Support internal and external audits and ensure compliance with company policies, quality systems, and customer-specific requirements.
• Use data and structured problem-solving to identify trends, prioritize actions, and sustain corrective measures.
• Build, coach, and develop a capable materials team with clear roles, objectives, succession plans, and accountability.
• Promote a culture of safety, urgency, collaboration, fact-based decision-making, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Operations on production priorities and labor-capacity alignment; with Quality on containment and supplier issues; with Engineering on changes and launches; and with Strategic Sourcing on supplier risk and commercial actions.
• Communicate supply-chain performance, risks, decisions, and required support to plant and business-unit leadership.
• Serve as the primary plant leader for material availability, inventory health, customer delivery, and logistics execution.

Skills

Materials management

Planning

Logistics

Production control

Supply chain

ERP systems

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or related field

Tools

ERP software

Excel

BI reporting tools

Job description

cvgrp is seeking a Materials Manager to lead end-to-end planning, inventory control, logistics, warehousing, and supplier delivery performance at the plant.

You will collaborate with Operations, Sourcing, Finance, Quality, Engineering, Sales, and suppliers to translate demand into a robust supply plan and manage constraints, changes, and risks to ensure uninterrupted production and on-time customer delivery.