Senior Materials Planning & Sourcing Lead

Applied Materials, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel 10%

Relocation eligible

Job summary

Applied Materials, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a results-driven Materials Planner to lead cross-functional planning, scheduling, inventory, and cost control.

You will develop and manage integrated planning processes, balancing make-versus-buy decisions and capacity with customer demand and forecasts. You will partner with quality, engineering, machining and assembly to ensure on-time delivery, optimize supplier performance, and implement best practices for inventory control.

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.
• Responsible for accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing, in conjunction with Finance, and inventory control system, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies in the future.
• 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.
• Establish, implement, and manage system to evaluate, monitor and report supplier scorecard performance.
• 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.
• Participates as a member of the operations team in making cross-functional operational decisions.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality to achieve cost reduction targets.
• Selects, evaluates and manages employees to ensure the efficient operations of the function.

Job description

Applied Materials, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a results-driven Materials Planner to lead cross-functional planning, scheduling, inventory, and cost control.

You will develop and manage integrated planning processes, balancing make-versus-buy decisions and capacity with customer demand and forecasts. You will partner with quality, engineering, machining and assembly to ensure on-time delivery, optimize supplier performance, and implement best practices for inventory control.