Description Leads and develops the Material Team.
**Responsibilities**:
1. Responsible for developing the Material Team and implementing advanced Supply Chain Strategies
2. Drives a Lean Culture in a high energy team environment
3. Provides hiring, promotion and disciplinary action recommendations, as well as performance evaluation and feedback for direct reports.
Procurement Management:
1. Collaborates with Manufacturing, Project Managers, Engineering, PSI, and Sales as well as other areas in the general Supply Chain including Sourcing to drive Supply Chain performance by improving supplier lead times and reducing component and assembly inventory levels.
2. Facilitates and leads strong supplier relationships to ensure timely delivery of materials.
3. Investigates potential for delays and/or quality issues, identifies alternative (approved) plans, and engage, elevate when any sourced item will not arrive on time to support the schedule or quality issu...