Senior Materials Manager — SIOP, Inventory & Logistics

Regal Rexnord Corporation; Erie (Erie County); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k Matching

Paid Time Off

Tuition Assistance

Job summary

Regal Rexnord's Erie, PA facility seeks a Materials Manager II to lead planning, purchasing, inventory, and logistics. This senior role builds a high-performing materials organization and partners with Operations, Engineering, and Finance to optimize inventory, cash flow, and on-time delivery.

You will own the SIOP portion, drive supplier development, and implement Lean/RBS-driven improvements across procurement, planning, and execution functions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations Management, Engineering, or a related field required.
• Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in materials management, supply chain, purchasing, inventory planning, scheduling, or logistics within a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum of 3 years of leadership experience managing planning, purchasing, or materials teams.
• Experience supporting engineered-to-order (ETO), make-to-order (MTO), assembly-to-order (ATO), or mixed manufacturing environments preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading supplier management, inventory optimization, forecasting, and SIOP processes.
• Strong understanding of ERP systems, including MRP, purchasing, inventory management, and scheduling functionality.
• Proven ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing teams.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing working capital, inventory investment, forecasting, and business case development.

Responsibilities

• Leads a team of Planning, Purchasing, Scheduling, Inventory, Receiving, Shipping, and Logistics professionals to define and execute the site's materials strategy.
• Responsible for all aspects of inventory performance, including availability, inventory value, inventory accuracy, excess and obsolete inventory, turns, and days on hand.
• Establishes and manages inventory strategies, replenishment methodologies, safety stock levels, and planning parameters for all purchased and manufactured components.
• Owns the materials portion of the SIOP process including supply planning, capacity planning, materials availability, inventory forecasting, and scenario analysis.
• Supports the Operations and Plant Manager in assessing supply chain risks and implementing countermeasures to achieve operational and financial objectives.
• Drives alignment between customer demand, production schedules, and supplier capabilities to ensure on-time delivery and efficient inventory utilization.
• Leads forecasting and order fulfillment activities to ensure customer requirements are met while optimizing working capital.
• Develops and maintains strong supplier relationships while leading escalation efforts and corrective action plans for supplier delivery, quality, and capacity issues.
• Leads sourcing and supplier development activities in partnership with Corporate Sourcing and Category Management teams.
• Improves ERP effectiveness by ensuring master data integrity and proper planning parameters to drive automation and planning accuracy.
• Establishes and improves processes to enhance customer commit dates, available-to-promise accuracy, and overall supply chain visibility.
• Leads physical inventory counts, cycle count programs, and initiatives to improve overall inventory accuracy.
• Implements, manages, and continuously improves all processes related to procurement, planning, scheduling, inventory management, receiving, warehousing, shipping, logistics, forecasting, and demand management.
• Leads structured problem solving using Regal Rexnord Business System (RBS) principles and drives root cause corrective action throughout the organization.
• Establishes, deploys, and monitors standard work, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with company and regulatory requirements.
• Partners with Finance to improve working capital performance, inventory productivity, and cash flow.
• Develops and leads a high-performing materials organization through hiring, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, performance management, and employee development.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Inventory optimization

Forecasting

SIOP process

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Decision making

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations Management, Engineering, or related field

Tools

SAP

ERP Systems

Job description

Regal Rexnord's Erie, PA facility seeks a Materials Manager II to lead planning, purchasing, inventory, and logistics. This senior role builds a high-performing materials organization and partners with Operations, Engineering, and Finance to optimize inventory, cash flow, and on-time delivery.

You will own the SIOP portion, drive supplier development, and implement Lean/RBS-driven improvements across procurement, planning, and execution functions.