Senior Director Materials Management
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Role summary
Manages, directs, or supervises staff and the development and implementation of a Materials Management function in a corporate or regional/satellite location. Ensures the organization has access to materials, goods and services required to support current and future operational needs. Ensures safe and timely access to requisite materials. Plans, monitors, and controls inventory and materials/parts ordering, storage, shipping, and receiving. Develops and implements material handling procedures to optimize resource and cost effectiveness; sets priorities to achieve targets and goals related to volume, timing, safety, and reliability standards, policies and health and safety regulations. Monitors activities, equipment operability and capacity, and coordinates management operations with adjacent areas to ensure smooth integration. Manages systems maintenance and volume /cost control by analyzing needs and tracking plans and status of current or projected purchase orders, inventory levels, schedules, storage capacity, and production requirements. Interprets requests and resolves escalated problems and develops material capacity estimates and forecasts for adjunct and senior management.
Job summary sourced from the Empsight benchmark job library.
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- How does Senior Director Materials Management pay vary by industry and geography?
- Compensation for Senior Director Materials Management varies by industry, region, company size, and revenue. Most surveys above publish cuts on those dimensions. Industry-specific surveys (healthcare, tech, financial services, etc.) typically report meaningfully different ranges than cross-industry surveys for the same role.
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