Materials Planning & Inventory Leader

Zohorecruit; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Prestige Staffing Services in Fort Wayne, IN seeks a seasoned Materials Manager with 5+ years of experience to lead material planning, scheduling, purchasing, and distribution. This direct-hire opportunity offers strong benefits and a path to impact plant performance.

Responsibilities include optimizing inventory, implementing visual management, aligning forecasts with budgets, and driving continuous improvement across procurement and production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is required.
• 5+ years of materials management experience.
• Advanced MS Office including Excel.
• Experience with Oracle or SAP is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Management of material planning, material control, scheduling, and purchasing functions including customer service, production planning, procurement, storage and distribution of material and product.
• Drive activities critical to plant performance by managing various projects to instill excellence and best practices.
• Control department expenses, increase productivity, elevate service to customers, and further competitive advantage.
• Oversees and ensures proper production control planning and scheduling programs to meet sales forecasts and to balance the level of manpower and machine requirements.
• Develops and implements visual inventory management systems on the production floor.
• Integration of sales forecasts, budgets raw, in process, and finished goods inventory.
• Manage departmental expenses and appropriation requests within budget while focusing on continuous improvement opportunities

Skills

Materials Management

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Excel

Oracle

SAP

Job description

Prestige Staffing Services in Fort Wayne, IN seeks a seasoned Materials Manager with 5+ years of experience to lead material planning, scheduling, purchasing, and distribution. This direct-hire opportunity offers strong benefits and a path to impact plant performance.

Responsibilities include optimizing inventory, implementing visual management, aligning forecasts with budgets, and driving continuous improvement across procurement and production.