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Materials Manager

Owen Daniels
Posted 21 hours ago, valid for 17 hours
Location

Livingston, West Lothian EH54 6PZ, Scotland

Salary

£45,000 - £54,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

Life Insurance

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Our client are a leading manufacturer of precision parts for the aerospace industry. They are looking to add a Materials Manager to their team on a permanent basis. This would be a great fit for a meticulous individual who enjoys challenge and variety in their day to day.Materials ManagerPermanent positionGlobal manufacturer of precision components10% matched pension, 25 days holiday & life assuranceMaterials Manager
  • Manage raw material purchases and e&o in line with Inventory targets
  • Manage customer demand schedule loading on the backlog
  • Identify changes and movements in customer demand
    • Evaluate the raw material impact 
    • availability of raw material
    • review flow down effect on Inter co suppliers 
    • review SOP and financial impact in conjunction with the Planning Manager
  • Monitor sales backlog to ensure reflects customer requirements and acknowledged delivery dates
  • Confirm raw material plan requirements to support SOP and Customer commits
  • Review supply commitments in conjunction with purchasing, verify and identify Issues to meet customer committed deliveries 
  • Support purchasing to resolve supply issues
  • Prepare work order launch plan, in conjunction with Planning Mgr, to support customer deliveries and production plans
  • Prepare long range raw material forecasts for Inter Co suppliers
  • Prepare Customer raw material reporting
  • Implement robust process to ensure charge back on any applicable PPV and or surcharge to customers
  • Ensure compliance with appliable reporting eg
  • SOX
  • Conflict Minerals
  • CBAM
  • SEPA
  • Support development of IT Purchasing procedures
  • Meets and communicates with customers as required 
  • Carry out any other duty as requested by the Senior Management Team.
Knowledge & Experience
  • Excellent understanding how customer demand is linked to purchase demand
  • Strong financial acumen
  • Well organised and possess strong numerical skills with the ability to analyse data effectively and put forward solutions to problems
  • Energetic with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Can work with minimal supervision, using own initiative.
  • Must have outstanding knowledge with advanced skills of Microsoft Excel, alongside good IT skills. 
  • Strong attention to detail and excellent interpersonal skills.
  • A high level of responsiveness with the ability to work under pressure and tight time constraints
  • Must have minimum of 5 years applicable experience within a manufacturing industry.
Previous experience with areas such as 
  • Production and Material planning
  • Purchasing
  • Master scheduling
  • Demand planning 
  • Project management
  • Customer Account management
Benefits & Working hours
  • 25 days plus bank holidays
  • Pension matched up to 10%
  • 3x annual salary life assurance
  • Profit related bonus scheme
Working Hours:
  • Monday to Thursday 8am to 4:15pm
  • Friday - 8am to 3pm
Please note this role will be site based.

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