GCC - Materials Manager

GCC is looking for candidates who want to take the next step in their career to join our 100% employee owned company. GCC has offices in Tampa, Miami, Spokane, Seattle, and Portland - providing motion control solutions for hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrically powered applications. Our team is growing, and we are proud to be a 100% employee owned company - every employee has skin in the game.

The Materials Manager’s job is to make product available for sale to customers (including production for customers) by achieving an optimum balance between the cost to own, the cost to carry and meeting customer delivery requirements.

 Responsibilities Include:

P21

• System-settings for entering new items, purchasing and inventory control functions.
• Entry and set up of new items requested by Customer Service or Product Management.
• Maintenance of P21 data to facilitate purchasing and inventory management and to help all users have the data they need in the most accessible form.
• Identify and tag items whose usage is dominated by a single user.
•  Manage a cycle count program that provides the Company and its auditors’ assurance that the value of inventory calculated by P21 is reliable.
• Implement and maintain an expediting program:
• To maximize on-time delivery to customers consistent with established purchasing policy, and
• To notify customer service of deliveries that will apparently impact promised dates.
• Produce ad hoc inventory reports when requested or when needed to achieve these Duties and Responsibilities.

Purchasing:

• Purchase inventory, calculated to minimize total acquisition costs based on historical usage and inprocess items (including approved blanket orders), manipulating order quantities, lead times, special pricing (et. al.) to accomplish this goal.
• Notify Customer Service when inventory purchases do not support promised dates to customers.
• Assist Accounts Payable with supplier invoice issues.
• Interact with Sales and Warehouse on immediate or emergency needs for material and non-standard items.

 Inventory Management

• Make maximum usage of supplier’s return programs.
• Review requests for customer’s return-to-stock and approve or reject.
• Review slow moving items and make recommendations for liquidation.
• Assist warehouse with troubled receipts (no PO, damaged product, etc.).
• Coordinate inventory audit with independent auditor and GCC Warehouse, Accounting and auditing. Plan the activity and on-going inventory management, to achieve the most favorable audit results.
• Negotiate claims and settlements with transportation suppliers.
• Review request for blanket orders (sales orders) and make recommendations on approval and implementation management.
• Set inventory goals based on Cost of Sales and meet the agreed upon goals consistently.

 Quality

• Prepare and process MRRs for defective items discovered before delivery to a customer.
• Assist with supplier recall notices to identify defective items On Hand.
• Coordinate supplier evaluation and re-evaluation program.  
• Support and participate in the organization’s continual improvement program, to conform to ISO 9001 requirements and understand the implications of not conforming with the Quality Management System.

• Ensure processes are delivering their intended outputs.
• Ensure the promotion of customer focus throughout the organization.
• Demonstrate leadership and commitment with respect to the quality management system by:
• Taking accountability for the effectiveness of the quality management system;

1. Ensuring that the quality policy and quality objectives are established for the quality management system and are compatible with the context and strategic direction of the organization;
2. Ensuring the integration of the quality management system requirements into the organization’s business processes;
3. Promoting the use of the process approach and risk-based thinking;
4. Ensuring that the resources needed for the quality management system are available;
5. Communicating the importance of effective quality management and of conforming to the quality management system requirements;
6. Ensuring that the quality management system achieves its intended results;
7. Engaging, directing and supporting persons to contribute to the effectiveness of the quality management system;
8. Promoting improvement;
9. Supporting other relevant management roles to demonstrate their leadership as it applies to their areas of responsibility.

Personnel Management

• Mentor employees as a positive force to achieving their maximum potential in support of their self-actualization and the company’s benefit.
• Assign responsibilities and tasks to make the best use of talent and timeliness of task completion.
• Monitor, control, and document the conduct of all subordinate employees.

Administrative

• Assist administration in maintaining purchasing and inventory documentation.
• Follow company policies and procedures and recommend new policies and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management or related field, or combination of education and experience acceptable to GCC.
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in purchasing, inventory control and/or production management. Prefer that experience is in a distribution business.
• Experience working in an ISO 9001 environment is a plus.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Communication – exceptional phone skills, oral and written skills that are clear and concise, and achieve intended objectives.
• Purchasing – Analyses demand created by inventory parameters and in-process orders to determine optimal time to order and quantity to order.
• Inventory Control – Analyses historical data to determine optimal re-order parameters.
• Inventory Discrepancies – Knows what data to seek to deduce discrepancy cause(s)
• Organizational – Divides workload to achieve best results and timely results.
• Interpersonal Skills – actively builds good supplier and interdepartmental relationships
• Planning – establish short and long term plans to meet future needs.
• Pressure/deadlines – ability to work under pressure of schedules and demands from manufacturing and sales.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, and 401(k) plans with company match. A unique benefit GCC offers as part of Employee Owned Holdings, Inc. is an employee stock ownership plan.

What is an ESOP?

ESOP is a special retirement program that allows employees to own stock in the company. When you join EOHI, you automatically begin investing in your future (without having to purchase shares). We are a high growth company committed to training our employee owners to develop their skills and advance in their careers.

• Studies also show that retirement account balances for ESOP companies are 2.5 times higher.
• ESOP companies grow 2.5 times faster than those companies without employee ownership.
• Research shows employee owned companies are superior in performance, employee benefits and employee morale because everyone is working towards a common goal.