Materials Manager – Electronics / Hardware

Arrow International, Inc.; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrow International, Inc. is seeking a Materials Manager in the United States to lead inventory control, planning, and service levels across eGaming, hardware, equipment, and related components.

The role focuses on reducing inventory while improving throughput, service, and efficiency, with a strong emphasis on data analysis and building scalable reporting and planning tools during the SAP transition.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, supply chain, systems, programming, or related field is required.
• 10+ years in manufacturing, distribution, or materials planning environment with leadership experience.
• Strong ERP experience, SAP preferred; ability to reduce inventory and improve service.
• Experience with data extraction, reporting, and inventory trend analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage inventory levels across product categories and locations.
• Develop and automate reports to track inventory, service levels, and progress against targets.
• Support SAP transition by improving inventory control, planning processes, and reporting structure.
• Analyze inventory levels, usage trends, warehouse balances, and service performance for improvements.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, purchasing, planning, warehouse, and operations to optimize turns and reduce excess inventory.
• Assist planning systems: forecasting, MPS, MRP, and DRP; review stocking targets.
• Design and maintain reporting tools for coordination between manufacturing, supply, demand, and customer requirements.
• Create, maintain, and audit system data to improve accuracy and reporting integrity.
• Train team members on processes, reporting procedures, and data entry.
• Travel to warehouses for audits, counts, and process reviews.

Skills

Inventory control

Data analysis

ERP systems

SAP

Forecasting

MPS/MRP

Communication

Problem solving

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP

AS/400

PRMS

Job description

Description

Arrow International is looking for a Materials Manager to support inventory control, planning, and service levels across eGaming, hardware, equipment, and related components. This person will play a key role in improving companywide inventory visibility and control as Arrow continues transitioning to SAP.

This role will be responsible for reducing inventory while improving service, throughput, and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate enjoys digging into data, identifying business problems, improving processes, and building systems that help teams make better decisions.

Responsibilities

• Manage inventory levels across eGaming, hardware, equipment, and related product/component categories.
• Develop and automate reports to track inventory, service levels, demand, transfers, and progress against targets.
• Support SAP transition efforts by improving inventory control, planning processes, system accuracy, and reporting structure.
• Analyze inventory levels, usage trends, warehouse balances, and service performance to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Partner with manufacturing, purchasing, planning, warehouse, and operations teams to improve inventory turns, reduce excess inventory, and prevent out-of-stock issues.
• Support planning systems and processes, including forecasting, MPS, MRP, and DRP.
• Review inventory targets and planning parameters to ensure proper stocking levels across warehouses and product lines.
• Help design and maintain reporting tools that improve coordination between manufacturing, supply, demand, and customer requirements.
• Create, maintain, and audit system data to improve inventory accuracy and reporting integrity.
• Train team members on inventory processes, reporting procedures, system changes, and proper data entry.
• Travel to warehouse or distribution locations as needed to support inventory audits, physical counts, training, and process reviews.

Requirements

• 4-year degree in engineering, business, supply chain, systems, programming, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in a manufacturing, distribution, or materials planning environment.
• Experience at a manager, director, or senior leadership level with demonstrated success reducing inventory, lowering operational expense, improving throughput, and improving service.
• Strong ERP experience required; SAP experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with AS/400, Query, PRMS, or other integrated manufacturing systems is a plus.
• Strong understanding of inventory control, materials planning, purchasing, scheduling, forecasting, MPS, MRP, and DRP.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel.
• Experience building reports, extracting data, analyzing inventory trends, and improving planning tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must enjoy working with data, solving problems, improving systems, and helping teams make better business decisions.