About this role:
The Senior Manager of Materials Planning leads the planning organization that ensures material availability to support the production plan. This role owns demand and supply planning, inventory strategy and ERP planning parameters, leading a team of planners and schedulers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads the materials planning organization and the end-to-end planning process.
- Owns material availability to support the production plan and customer commitments.
- Sets inventory strategy, safety stock policy and days-of-supply targets.
- Governs ERP/MRP planning parameters, data accuracy and system discipline.
- Leads the supply side of the SIOP/S&OP process with Operations and Commercial.
- Drives supplier delivery performance and shortage-mitigation plans.
- Manages planning KPIs (material availability, inventory turns, past-due) and improvement plans.
- Builds, coaches and develops the planning team.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- 8+ years of materials planning or supply-chain experience, including 3+ years leading teams.
- 5+ years of experience in MRP/ERP planning and inventory management.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Business or a related field.
- Deep knowledge of MRP/ERP planning, inventory management and capacity planning.
- Experience in industrial equipment manufacturing operations
- Experience owning the supply side of a SIOP/S&OP process.
- Proven ability to manage inventory, working capital and days-of-supply.
- Strong analytical skills and experience driving supplier delivery performance.
- Demonstrated ability to build and develop a planning organization.
- APICS certification (CPIM / CSCP).
- Experience in high-growth or fast-paced manufacturing environments.
- Knowledge of Lean logistics and pull replenishment.
Pay Range
The annual salary for this position is between $117,500.00 - $234,500.00 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate. The pay range will not be below the minimum wage applicable to the jurisdiction in which the applicant is to be employed.
Other Compensation
Thisposition is entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.
Benefits
Employees are eligible for benefits, including:
Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives
Retirement Benefits
Time off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation
Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
Tuition Assistance
To learn more about our benefits offering, please click here . The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors, such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Application Deadline
Applications will be accepted for at least 3 days fromJobPosting Date: 25 September 2026
Use of AI
Technology-enabled tools may support parts of the recruitment process, with oversight by people.
