Materials Manager

Building our Future Together. FXI is a leading provider of comfort solutions to the Bedding, Furniture and Transportation markets. We have made it our mission to provide tailored solutions that delight our customers and consumers. We are an industry leader in the rapidly growing Mattress in a Box segment of the bedding market. We have created a "molecules to doorstep" business model that leverages our leading innovation, scale, and footprint to deliver our own brands as well as other leading brands to the market and to consumers doorsteps. With our corporate headquarters, high-tech research and development facility, and multiple manufacturing locations in North America, FXI has built a culture of innovation and achievement that is recognized by customers, suppliers and peers. We provide one of the broadest sets of comfort solutions to the broadest set of industry players, through the broadest manufacturing platform in the industry. You will find FXI's comfort technologies inside countless applications you encounter every day. Everywhere comfort is needed, FXI's innovations lead the way! We are always looking for best-in-class talent to join our innovative, fun, and value-driven culture. What are you waiting for?

Support FXI Santa Teresa, NM in the following areas: Incoming, process, quarantine, customer service to assurance to reach the company objectives through their experience on the administration of the product, process and personal, interacting with internal and corporate management team and customer relations.

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 the best economic 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.
• Prepares customer delivery reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends and uses information to proactively communicate potential late deliveries.
• Establishes and supervises production scheduling activities by monitoring material inventories, tracking progress of production and reviewing factors that affect schedules.
• Develop and execute a sourcing strategy to meet the company's business growth and sourcing requirements.
• Identify, develop, and manage effective relationships 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.
• Adhere to established company policies, procedures, terms and conditions and legal matters that affect purchasing policies.
• Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, machining and assembly operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedules to proactively identify and address any issues.
• Responsible for accuracy of inventory counts by implementing and managing, in conjunction with Finance, an inventory control system, capable of identifying discrepancies in inventory counts and taking corrective action to guard against inconsistencies in the future.
• Achieves financial objectives by working with management group to prepare the materials budget, schedule expenditures, analyze variances and initiate corrective actions.

REQUIRED SKILLS, EXPERIENCE and EDUCATION:

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• 5 years working as a Materials Manager and/or managing Purchasing and Supply Chain in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• 5 or more years of experience in inventory or production control.
• Lean Six Sigma manufacturing experience
• Certifcation in APICS preferred

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Proficient at MS Office.
• Experience with a complete understanding of SAP & MRP/Forecasting tools highly preferred.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This role will have supervisory responsibilities over Bun Process Scheduler, Buyer, Customer Service, and Master Scheduler.

DESIRABLE TRAITS AND SKILLS:

• Outstanding communication and interpretation skills.
• Must possess excellent planning/organization skills, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Able to work independently while prioritizing multiple taks and meeting deadlines.

BENEFITS:

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, basic and optional life insurance, short and long term disability protection, a 401(k) plan with company match, tuition assistance, and flexible spending accounts.

Join an industry leader and innovator.

FXI is an equal opportunity employer.