Senior Manager/Manager, Material

Job Summary: The Senior Manager/Manager, Material leads material strategy and flow across Singapore, Malaysia, and China, ensuring visibility of current and future material issues while driving operational efficiency. This role manages inventory goals, oversees MRP execution, and collaborates with planners, production managers, engineering, and supply chain teams to mitigate risks and support critical schedules. It develops supplier roadmaps, drives risk analysis, and implements programs such as VMI and JIT to reduce lead times andliability exposure. With strong leadership, strategic thinking, and customer-facing experience, the manager ensures seamless material integration, continuous improvement, and alignment with UCT’s business objectives. Duties and Responsibilities: Overseeing the operation of the programs and leading a team. Develop and implement strategic goals and objectives. Identify opportunities to improve the overall material processes and ensure alignment with organization’s mission and values. Identify and manage risks that may impact the programs and organization. Make important decisions that impact the direction and operation of the programs / organization. Analyze data and make informed decisions based on that analysis. Point of escalation to internal and customers. Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders. Responsible for program’s inventory goal and collaborate with GSS team for timely MRP execution to minimize liability exposure. Work with Planner to ensure visibility of current & future material issues. Work with Production Managers to understand Critical Production schedules. Coordinates demand signals through MRP to minimize inventory exposure. Participates in Materials Core Team and coordinates product development process deliverables with team members (buyers, planners, production control). Supports the creation, releases, and updates to new project materials strategy. Works with engineering to identify preliminary critical parts, long-lead parts and inspection requirements. Assists in developing supplier and commodity road maps to engineering. Material risk BOM analysis at project level: Design the inventory programs: VMI, JIT, discrete orders, etc. – driving lead-time reduction. Recommend risk buy or consignment (This relates to impact inventory liability, inventory turns, cash flow relief, etc. – due to upsides, downside, slow down of businesses more effectively). Burst demand request by customers – assess entire BOM materials lead-times, chronic suppliers, customer managed allocations, etc., then present from materials perspective how to support burst demand plan to support operations. Work closely with Supply Chain Program managers for localization or regionalization of OEM & BTP parts. Work with SCM on long term supply chain mitigation plan via localization or alternate sourcing to ease the supply chain for the Program/Tool. Leads project team that may include different functions and departments to solve supplier long-term issues and improve supplier performance. Provides inputs to engineering and SCM in supplier selection and assessment. Analyze system need dates, supplier commitments and current production status to identify critical material issues. Escalate critical material shortages immediately upon identification and own the efforts to resolve and continue to escalate. Lead clear to build (CTB) for pre-production build phases. Propose optimized supply planning to ensure on time build schedule. Drive closure of materials issues. Collaborate with supply chain functions for support as needed. Participates in commercialization (transition) materials plan. Participates in the material change control change process. Assists in supplier price and delivery negotiations; Complete supplier risk assessment on critical and unique parts. Monitor supplier performance (delivery, quality, cost). Develop and execute risk/opportunity plans to meet program objectives & proactively manage mitigation plans. Track KPI’s and generate Reports, Metrics & Presentations. Attend Customer and Supplier quarterly SBR and track closure of the open actions list. Support planning & coordination of new Projects, New components and Engineering Changes and assess the impact to Production Schedules. Consistently work on Demand & Supply to proactively identify gaps and work with planner buyers and Strategic procurement to eliminate the gaps. Work with Engineering & Program Management to dev…