Director - Material Management

Dragon Recruiting

United States

Ref: RP245-932

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Responsibilities:
• Establish effective metrics to manage procurement, inventory management, pricing strategy, margin and file maintenance goals
• Establish and maintain sustainable pricing strategy and implement best-practices from across the market
• Actively manage and optimize the product file and product costing across the enterprise
• Develop strong working relationships with vendor community
• Manage inventory key performance indicators to create continuous improvement and achieve inventory objectives
• Constant communication with field sales/sales leaders to ensure market level pricing/inventory levels to ensure support/growth in business (this includes joint calls in field and participating in sales meetings with team etc.
• Drive communication strategy and system enforcement with sales to emphasize focus on selling what we inventory
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities: (Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions)
• Long and varied hours required occasionally

Benefits:
• Attractive Salary Package

Requirements

Qualifications: Education and/or Experience:
• Electrical, Industrial and/or distribution experience preferred but not required
• Bachelor's degree (B.A or B.S.) from a 4-year college or University; or
• 5 - 7 years' of related experience and/or training; or
• Equivalent combination of education and experience

Requirements:
• Proven track record of directing, developing and managing people
• Drive continual improvement through ongoing training and mentoring
• Possess the attitude of wanting to learn, teach and lead
• Must demonstrate good time management skills
• Must possess strong planning, organizational and execution skills
• Must have the ability to set goals and meet deadlines
• Must possess excellent customer service skills
• Must demonstrate ownership of assigned responsibilities and ability to get the job done correctly and in a timely manner
• Must possess a proactive and positive team approach to problem resolution
• Must have the ability to establish strong working relationships with co-workers and other leaders

Office/Warehouse environment Travel:
• If yes, the % of travel time required: 30%

Physical Demands:
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk and hear
• The employee frequently is required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb or balance
• The employee will frequently lift and/or move 10 pounds and may be required to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus

About the Company

Dragon Recruiting is a leading international staffing and recruitment company, head-quartered in London, with further offices all over the globe. Our clients range from numerous well known UK and international businesses. We also represent a wide range of less well known clients - helping them to find staff for their businesses around the world.

As an international recruitment agency, our clients benefit from a vast network of human resource specialists who attract, cultivate and connect organisations to talent in both global and local markets. Our unrivalled

scope of services and global reach allow us to share candidates and roles across borders. With greater coverage and tools, we can ensure our clients and candidates all get the best outcome for their recruitment needs.

With experience of over 3 decades we are recruiting more than 10,000 workers annually to and from the UK, USA and the Middle East and several other Asian countries. We specialize in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

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