Materials Planning & Sourcing Manager

Applied Materials, Inc.; Billerica (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Bonus eligibility

Stock award program

Job summary

Applied Materials, Inc. in Billerica, MA is seeking a seasoned Materials Planner to drive cross-functional planning, forecasting, and inventory control.

You will coordinate with procurement, engineering, and production teams to optimize make/buy decisions and ensure cost-efficient, on-time material availability. The role emphasizes supplier relationships, scheduling discipline, and continuous improvement within a global materials organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in cross-functional supply chain planning.
• Strong analytical skills in forecasting and inventory control.
• Proven ability to manage supplier relationships and cost targets.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and manage cross-functional, fully integrated planning process that incorporates make versus buy, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory, material and associated cost elements.
• Performs analysis of customer demand, sales forecasts and historical material usage to develop and execute build to order and build to forecast plans. Coordinate with cross-functional business teams to develop best cost strategy for production planning to support customer demand.
• Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control.
• Establishes and manages production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules.
• Develop and execute a sourcing strategy to meet the company's business growth and sourcing requirements. Identify, develop, and manage effective relationship with existing and potential suppliers of goods and services to meet the established cost, quality and delivery targets.
• Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, machining, and assembly operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedule to proactively identify and address any issues.
• Represents materials organization on corporate materials task force teams. Manages department budget, associated costs and resources.

Skills

Materials planning

Forecasting

Cross-functional collaboration

Inventory control

Supplier management

Scheduling

Job description

Applied Materials, Inc. in Billerica, MA is seeking a seasoned Materials Planner to drive cross-functional planning, forecasting, and inventory control.

You will coordinate with procurement, engineering, and production teams to optimize make/buy decisions and ensure cost-efficient, on-time material availability. The role emphasizes supplier relationships, scheduling discipline, and continuous improvement within a global materials organization.