Lead site material planning activities to ensure the timely availability of materials required to support production operations.
Own the stocking and replenishment strategy for all site raw materials.
Lead the site inventory optimization strategy, balancing material availability, inventory investment, and operational requirements.
Serve as the escalation point when Material Planners are unable to resolve supply, delivery, inventory, or supplier-related issues effectively.
Lead, coach, and develop the Materials Planning team, establishing clear expectations for performance, accountability, and execution.
Ensure team members are properly trained and effectively utilizing ERP/MRP tools, planning processes, and Ingersoll Rand standard work.
Support employee development through regular coaching, structured training, and individual development plans.
Champion Lean principles and continuous improvement across Materials Planning functions.
Strengthen planning discipline, standard work, problem-solving, and root-cause corrective action practices.
Drive improvements in material availability, inventory performance, planning accuracy, and overall team productivity.
Serve as the Materials Planning liaison across Production, Procurement, Supplier Quality, Quality Assurance, Engineering, Accounts Payable, Finance, and other functional groups.
Coordinate resolution of issues involving supplier quality, goods received not invoiced, invoice discrepancies, engineering changes, new product development, and other material-related business needs.
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to identify supply risks, resolve constraints, and support production, product launches, and customer delivery requirements.
Material Planning and Inventory Management Maintain material plans within the planning time fence to ensure continuity of supply. Review open material requirements and proactively identify shortages, supply gaps, and inventory risks. Maintain optimal inventory levels and appropriate safety stock for assigned parts. Maintain accurate ABC classifications and other planning inputs required for the Plan for Every Part process. Communicate forecasts, demand requirements, and replenishment plans to suppliers. Maintain accurate item-master lead times based on supplier performance, process improvements, current constraints, product-family demand, and business priorities.
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Maintain material plans within the planning time fence to ensure continuity of supply.
Review open material requirements and proactively identify shortages, supply gaps, and inventory risks.
Maintain optimal inventory levels and appropriate safety stock for assigned parts.
Maintain accurate ABC classifications and other planning inputs required for the Plan for Every Part process.
Communicate forecasts, demand requirements, and replenishment plans to suppliers.
Maintain accurate item-master lead times based on supplier performance, process improvements, current constraints, product-family demand, and business priorities.
Purchasing and Supplier Management Perform timely and cost-conscious procurement of production, inventory, and maintenance, repair, and operations materials. Review and analyze requisitions to confirm required quantities, specifications, delivery dates, and other purchasing requirements. Monitor supplier performance related to delivery, quality, responsiveness, and pricing. Expedite, de-expedite, or adjust purchase orders as needed to align material availability with production demand. Promptly communicate supplier delivery, quality, pricing, or capacity concerns and drive timely resolution. Escalate recurring or significant supplier-performance issues to Procurement and Materials Planning leadership.
Perform timely and cost-conscious procurement of production, inventory, and maintenance, repair, and operations materials.
Review and analyze requisitions to confirm required quantities, specifications, delivery dates, and other purchasing requirements.
Monitor supplier performance related to delivery, quality, responsiveness, and pricing.
Expedite, de-expedite, or adjust purchase orders as needed to align material availability with production demand.
Promptly communicate supplier delivery, quality, pricing, or capacity concerns and drive timely resolution.
Escalate recurring or significant supplier-performance issues to Procurement and Materials Planning leadership.
Shortage Management and Production Support Proactively identify and manage material shortages, including documenting root causes and supporting corrective actions. Coordinate with Production Planners when materials cannot be delivered as promised and develop alternative supply or scheduling solutions. Analyze material and capacity availability to support accurate customer promise dates for sales orders. Work with applicable functional groups to resolve complex delivery requirements, competing priorities, and material constraints.
Proactively identify and manage material shortages, including documenting root causes and supporting corrective actions.
Coordinate with Production Planners when materials cannot be delivered as promised and develop alternative supply or scheduling solutions.
Analyze material and capacity availability to support accurate customer promise dates for sales orders.
Work with applicable functional groups to resolve complex delivery requirements, competing priorities, and material constraints.
Quality, Invoice, and Transaction Resolution Partner with Quality Assurance and Supplier Quality to resolve supplier-related quality issues. Coordinate with suppliers and Accounting to resolve invoicing, receipt, pricing, and payment discrepancies. Ensure material-related transactional issues are addressed promptly to prevent supply disruption or inaccurate financial records.
Partner with Quality Assurance and Supplier Quality to resolve supplier-related quality issues.
Coordinate with suppliers and Accounting to resolve invoicing, receipt, pricing, and payment discrepancies.
Ensure material-related transactional issues are addressed promptly to prevent supply disruption or inaccurate financial records.
Productivity and Cost Improvement Identify and implement cost-reduction, inventory-improvement, and productivity initiatives aligned with corporate goals. Maintain an active pipeline of improvement projects and accurate financial records for productivity reporting and benefit tracking.
Identify and implement cost-reduction, inventory-improvement, and productivity initiatives aligned with corporate goals.
Maintain an active pipeline of improvement projects and accurate financial records for productivity reporting and benefit tracking.
Bachelor’s degree
5+ years of prior people management experience, ideally managing buyer/planner, purchasing, materials, planning, scheduling, or similar supply chain teams.
5+ years’ experience working in a manufacturing environment, such as industrial, assembly, machining, purchased-parts-heavy, or engineer-to-order manufacturing.
4+ years of experience in materials planning, purchasing, buyer/planner functions, master scheduling, and/or supply planning, or related manufacturing supply chain execution.
3+ years of demonstrated experience using ERP/MRP systems to support materials planning activities such as managing promise dates, purchase orders, expedites, de-expedites, cancellations, inventory signals, and planning execution.
2+ years’ experience in Excel skills to include utilizing formulas at an intermediate to advanced level
Hands-On People Leadership: Ability to coach, support, and hold a buyer/planner team accountable through regular engagement, one-on-ones, clear communication, and a balanced leadership style.
Materials Planning & Purchasing Execution: Strong understanding of purchasing, planning, promise dates, past-due POs, expedites, de-expedites, cancellations, supplier follow-up, and purchased-parts support in a manufacturing environment.
ERP/MRP & Replenishment Systems: Ability to use ERP/MRP systems, Excel, and planning data to interpret demand signals, manage supply gaps, support pull or non-MRP replenishment where applicable, and make sound planning decisions.
Manufacturing Operations & Complex Production Environments: Experience supporting manufacturing operations, ideally including assembly, machining, engineer-to-order, job shop, mixed-model, or long lead-time environments.
Inventory, Lean & Visual Performance Management: Ability to drive inventory turns, reduce excess or over-entitlement, support lean planning practices, and use visual management tools or performance tracking systems to improve execution and accountability.
MBA and/orBachelor Concentration in Business or Supply Chain Management
APICS or CPIM certification
ERP Experience in Oracle R12
Experience managing a large, diverse, or complex supplier/materials portfolio
Experience in engineer-to-order, long lead-time, complex BOM, or mixed-model manufacturing environments
