Senior Materials Manager: Planning, Purchasing & Inventory

Overhead Door; Pensacola (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Overhead Door is seeking a Materials Manager to provide strategic leadership for purchasing, inventory, cycle counting, shipping, and material handling in a build-to-order environment. You will lead a 35+ person materials organization and partner with site leaders to improve material flow and planning across the full lifecycle.

The role requires eight years in manufacturing planning or related fields and two years of direct leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or a technical field.
• Eight+ years in discrete-manufacturing planning, purchasing, materials management, or supply-chain operations.
• Two+ years of direct leadership experience.
• Experience with MRP/ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead purchasing, inventory control, material handling, receiving, warehouse movement, production support, and shipping interfaces.
• Ensure efficient material flow from raw-material purchasing and receipt through finished-goods handoff to traffic and transportation partners.
• Build and sustain a high-performing material-handling function of more than 20 hourly team members across receipt, stocking, internal movement, production staging, and finished-goods transfer.
• Align materials resources, processes, and priorities with production execution and customer commitments.
• Drive material demand through the purchasing function and monitor purchased-item availability; manage supplier relationships.
• Maintain accurate capacity plans, material forecasts, and planning assumptions using ERP tools; determine ship dates and resolve conflicts.

Skills

Materials leadership

People leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Planning and forecasting

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering or technical field

Tools

Oracle Advanced Planning

ERP systems

Job description

Overhead Door is seeking a Materials Manager to provide strategic leadership for purchasing, inventory, cycle counting, shipping, and material handling in a build-to-order environment. You will lead a 35+ person materials organization and partner with site leaders to improve material flow and planning across the full lifecycle.

The role requires eight years in manufacturing planning or related fields and two years of direct leadership.