Materials Manager - Remuneration Report

All our Remuneration Reports are three pages in length and provide a brief position description covering the job purpose, main accountabilities and matching indicators. This is accompanied by remuneration information and common benefits displayed in a tablulated and graphical format. We also provide a guidline of how to interpret the Report and where an individual employee should be positioned. 

Materials Manager                                                                       

Reports to:

Supply Chain Manager or Divisional Manager

Primary Objectives:

Manage the company’s purchasing and sourcing activities to ensure value for money, quality and reliability of the purchase and supply of raw materials and product components.

Main Accountabilities:

• Review and approve purchase requisitions.
• Undertake the negotiation of purchase contracts; follow up, schedule and expedite deliveries.
• Process and action finished goods orders to marketing and dispatch centres having regard to the optimisation of total inventory.
• Attend production planning meetings and liaise with marketing personnel in the forward ordering of supplies where lead time is critical.
• Research alternative sources of supply for all major materials purchased by the company.

Matching Indicators:

May have relevant qualifications and at least ten years warehousing and purchasing experience.