Lead Materials Specialist

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Are you passionate about materials planning?

Join our Wireline Services team!

Our Oilfield Services business provides intelligent, connected technologies to monitor and control our energy extraction assets. We provide innovative solutions across multiple geographies. Providing customers with the excellent solutions needed to reliably and efficiently improve their operations.

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As a Lead Materials Specialist, you'll be dedicated to ensuring on-time delivery from the launch to the customer. You’ll play a key role in our manufacturing plan, coordinating and expediting the flow of materials. Planning and scheduling according to production needs, you'll use in-depth knowledge of concepts, methods and procedures.

As a Lead Materials Specialist may include the following as well as other items required to execute the role:

Working with the region sales and operations to create the regional forecast (12-18 mo) and global forecasts

Working with the sales and operations team to convert the demand plans into physical orders. Understandsbusiness trends, opportunities and how they impact the demand forecast.

Assisting in the execution and drives consistency of the S&OP process

Analyzing incoming demand: identifies order exceptions, misalignment with product rationalization strategy and opportunities to utilize existing inventory

Planning and scheduling order timelines to be consistent with customer requirements while minimizing inventory and shipping costs

Working with the Product Line/Sales/Service Delivery to prioritize deliver dates as needed (push outs, pull ins)

Performing various material management analysis such as statistical material consumption and forecasts, aged inventory, aged PO, in-transit material analysis, safety stock, etc.

Implementing inventory stocking strategies

Monitoring levels of safety stock, global and aging inventory and works with regions and manufacturing plants to address accordingly

Working with the AMO organization to ensure spare parts and asset demands are captured

Working to ensure new assets, repaired assets and spares are captured with the Sales & Operations Planning process

Assisting with product life cycle management for new and obsolete products to ensure they are incorporated into the S&OP process

Assisting in driving product line make to stock (MTS), make to order (MTO), configure to order (CTO) and engineer to order (ETO) standards are implemented in the S&OP process

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will:

Have Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management or related field or equivalent experience (5+ years’ experience)

Have experience in order management, inventory optimization and management, asset utilization and management

Have Intermediate knowledge of SAP and MRP functionality

Ability to work with and influence stakeholders

Have ability to thinking strategic with tactical execution with a sense of urgency

Have Certifications - APICS Certification

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day (Subject to manager approval)

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

Comprehensive private medical care options

Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

Tailored financial programs

Additional elected or voluntary benefits