Director Of Materials Jobs

We are seeking a Director of Materials to report directly to the Vice President of Supply Chain. In this position, you will create best practices and influence the material functions in a high-volume environment working cross-functionally with other departments to support production, cultivation and fulfillment. You will oversee inbound distribution of supplies, control inventory levels across WIP, Intermediate and Finished Goods, and assist in providing inputs to S&OP to fuel forecasts and supply plans. If you are interested in leading a team in a high growth environment in the cannabis industry, please apply today!

Location: Remote with ability to travel up to 50% of the time for about 6 months, and then travel will scale back.

Responsibilities:

• Possesses a distinguished record of delivering critical project goals and moving projects forward.
• Demonstrates strong aptitude for motivating others and building team unity
• Developing annual budgets and long-term strategic plans, including capital expenditures and labor needs
• Resolve material shortages, backlogs and other potential schedule interruptions
• Identify best practices to be adopted into current business processes
• Works with purchasing department to schedule delivery of materials, supplies, and equipment
• Coordinate and supervise receiving and warehousing procedures, including 3PLs
• Play a key role in the annual operating and capital budget processes as well as manage the monthly capital acquisition and reporting processes
• Maintains and ensures accuracy of the perpetual inventory system
• Create strategic solutions to improve material flow at multiple sites
• Maintain enterprise view of materials for all sites
• Establishes procedures for conducting and valuing year-end physical inventory
• Develop short-term options for product allocation during times of limited supply
• Assist in creation of lifecycle management plan, with a focus on strategic prioritization to ensure success in meeting patient needs, overcoming supply challenges and reducing COGSand working capital
• Ensure maximum resource utilization in managing materials between suppliers, inventory locations, and internal customers
• Design and validate proposed process and systems changes
• Deploy new processes and functionality, supported with appropriate training programs, super-user groups, etc.
• Develop and execute inventory cycle count process to assure high inventory accuracies.
• Measure adoption and adherence, execute interventions to drive increased adoption and adherence where necessary
• Track and monitor key milestones and decision points and work with project team members to meet commitments and drive delivery of project objectives
• Assists in the creation of department goals
• Maintains inventory levels to ensure deliveries occur within customer timelines
• Inventory management responsibilities include defining minimum and maximum stocking levels in addition to lead times for storeroom supplies to ensure adequate supply flow