A Tier 2 automotive company specializing in metal stamping is seeking an experienced Materials Manager capable of stabilizing operations, restoring service levels, reducing premium freight, and ensuring on-time customer deliveries.

Location: Querétaro Industrial Park, Querétaro, Mexico

Work arrangement: On-site

Level: Management

Industry: Automotive Tier 1 or Tier 2, metalworking, or metal stamping

Position Objective

Ensure the timely availability and efficient flow of materials, maintain production schedule stability, and achieve on-time customer deliveries. This position will oversee production and materials planning, purchasing, inventory, warehouses, logistics, suppliers, and material-related costs.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead production and materials planning, purchasing, inventory, warehousing, logistics, transportation, shipping, and customer service functions.
- Convert customer demand and releases into executable production, material, and capacity plans.
- Ensure the integrity of MPS and MRP processes, planning parameters, safety-stock levels, lot sizes, and lead times.
- Maintain accurate Bills of Materials, part numbers, revisions, routings, engineering changes, and ERP master data.
- Monitor customer portals, EDI transactions, ASNs, delivery windows, and customer scorecards.
- Lead containment and recovery plans for customer escalations, backlogs, shortages, production stoppages, and delivery risks.
- Authorize, control, and reduce premium freight through root-cause analysis and preventive actions.
- Ensure the availability of raw materials, purchased components, work in process, and finished goods without creating unnecessary inventory.




- Manage supplier performance, capacity, delivery commitments, and recovery plans.
- Coordinate purchasing with Engineering, Quality, and Production during new product launches, engineering changes, and PPAP processes.
- Ensure inventory accuracy through cycle counting, reconciliation, transactional discipline, and physical controls.
- Oversee warehouse operations, internal material flow, FIFO, traceability, line feeding, and shipping.
- Lead daily materials and escalation meetings, defining decisions, responsibilities, and follow-up actions.
- Develop the team, establish accountability, and ensure coverage of critical competencies.
- Control budgets, freight expenses, warehousing costs, obsolescence, and working capital.
- Present risks, performance indicators, and recovery plans to customers, plant leadership, and corporate teams in both English and Spanish.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Ten or more years of experience in materials, production planning, logistics, or automotive supply chain.
- At least five years of experience in a managerial position or an equivalent role with full functional responsibility.




- Proven experience in Tier 1 or Tier 2 automotive companies, preferably within metal stamping, metalworking, or high-volume manufacturing operations.
- Advanced English and Spanish.
- Strong knowledge of ERP and MRP systems; PLEX experience is highly preferred.
- Experience with EDI, customer portals, spreadsheets, and analytical tools.
- Solid knowledge of S&OP;, MPS, MRP, BOM, ASN, inventory management, warehousing, purchasing, transportation, and shipping.
- Knowledge of IATF 16949, APQP, PPAP, engineering changes, traceability, FIFO, Kanban, and customer-specific requirements.
- Proven experience managing customer escalations, material shortages, delivery backlogs, production disruptions, and premium freight.
- Availability to respond to operational contingencies during the recovery process.

Key Competencies

- Leadership and team development.
- Strategic thinking.
- Decision-making under pressure.
- Customer and supplier negotiation.
- Bilingual executive communication.
- Results and customer-service orientation.
- Problem-solving and root-cause analysis.
- Operational discipline and follow-through.

Key Performance Indicators

- On-time delivery to customers.
- Customer scorecards.
- Premium freight costs.
- Production schedule attainment.
- Production downtime caused by material shortages.
- Inventory accuracy, turnover, and days on hand.
- Supplier on-time delivery.
- BOM and master-data accuracy.
- Obsolete and slow-moving inventory.
- Production plan adherence.
- Response time and effectiveness during customer escalations.
- Warehouse safety performance.

📌 Materials, Logistics and Warehouse Manager – Automotive Industry (Santiago de Querétaro)
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📍 Santiago de Querétaro