Strategic Materials & Supply Chain Manager

Briggs & Stratton; Statesboro (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Briggs & Stratton is seeking a Manager of Materials in the United States. You will lead a team to optimize forecast, demand planning, and supply plans, ensuring service parts and products are available to meet production needs.

Responsibilities include monitoring forecasts, defining performance metrics, and coordinating with corporate functions on supply chain directives. Travel up to 10% is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management or a related field.
• Seven years of experience in supply chain management.
• Thorough knowledge of manufacturing, distribution, inventory, and quality procedures and management programs and systems.
• Comprehensive understanding of integrated supply chain management including demand planning, forecasting and procurement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills to interact with diverse groups.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to optimize forecast, demand planning and create supply plans for availability of service parts and products.
• Monitor forecasts and demand to identify changes and their impact on supply chain activities.
• Define performance metrics for measurement of supply chain factors, inventory accuracy, and shipping/receiving compliance.
• Analyze inventories to increase inventory turns, manage fill rates, and determine ETA.
• Manage production scheduling to meet the sales forecast.
• Ensure component and product inventory is stored and managed properly.
• Coordinate with Corporate functions on roll-out of Supply Chain directives and synergies with Briggs & Stratton entities.
• Manage tactical purchasing, material requirements planning, inventory control, Kanban, VMI, logistics, warehousing, shipping/receiving.
• Participate in engineering changes, product line extensions, or new launches to ensure timely transitions in material/production flow.
• Perform managerial duties: hiring, coaching, budget, etc.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Organization

Communication

English fluency

Education

Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management

Tools

SAP

ERP systems

Google Suite

MS Office

Job description

Briggs & Stratton is seeking a Manager of Materials in the United States. You will lead a team to optimize forecast, demand planning, and supply plans, ensuring service parts and products are available to meet production needs.

Responsibilities include monitoring forecasts, defining performance metrics, and coordinating with corporate functions on supply chain directives. Travel up to 10% is required.