Materials Manager: ERP, Inventory & Warehouse Lead

MìLà; Sumner (WA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan

Life & AD&D insurance

Job summary

MiLa is seeking a hands-on Materials Manager to lead inventory accuracy, ERP/MRP discipline, shipping and receiving, warehouse execution, and material readiness for our fast-growing food manufacturing operation.

This role requires a floor-based leader who can fix transaction gaps, improve inventory accuracy, strengthen cycle count discipline, and ensure the physical inventory and ERP system tell the same story.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in inventory management, materials management, warehouse operations, supply chain, manufacturing, or distribution.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience in warehouse, inventory, materials, shipping/receiving, or plant operations.
• Strong hands-on ERP/MRP experience including receiving, transfers, adjustments, production consumption, BOMs, work orders, finished goods transactions, and cycle counts.
• Proven experience improving inventory accuracy through cycle counts, root-cause analysis, standard work, and transaction controls.
• Experience managing shipping, receiving, warehouse, material flow, and production staging.
• Experience in food, CPG, manufacturing, distribution, or temperature-controlled operations.

Responsibilities

• Support onsite material availability by partnering with Procurement, Production, Warehouse and FSQA to ensure ingredients, packaging, supplies, and other required materials are available for scheduled production.
• Coordinate PO follow-up, delivery timing, receiving coordination, and vendor communication to ensure inbound materials arrive accurately and on time.
• Maintain visibility into material flow: on hand, inbound, constrained, and escalation needs.
• Lead the cycle count program, including ABC classification, count schedules, variance investigation, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Own ERP/MRP discipline for receiving, put-away, transfers, staging, production consumption, scrap, returns, holds, releases, adjustments, and finished goods movement.
• Lead shipping and receiving execution: inbound/outbound accuracy, BOLs, COAs, temperature checks, lot docs, and carrier coordination.
• Ensure inbound materials are received correctly, labeled properly, located correctly, and QA status assigned.
• Ensure outbound shipments are accurate, complete, documented, temperature-controlled, and shipped on time.
• Manage daily/weekly material readiness for the production schedule.

Skills

Inventory management

Operations leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Regulatory/compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, or related field

Tools

SAP

NetSuite

Oracle

Microsoft Dynamics

Job description

MiLa is seeking a hands-on Materials Manager to lead inventory accuracy, ERP/MRP discipline, shipping and receiving, warehouse execution, and material readiness for our fast-growing food manufacturing operation.

This role requires a floor-based leader who can fix transaction gaps, improve inventory accuracy, strengthen cycle count discipline, and ensure the physical inventory and ERP system tell the same story.