Materials Project Management

Overview

Materials Project Management role in Bangalore supporting supply and demand planning, supplier coordination and excess material disposition for Applied Materials' materials and manufacturing teams.

What you'll do

• Forecast and communicate engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers regarding rework opportunities of excess and/or zero demand items resulting from supply and demand changes or ECR activity.
• Provide inputs to the BU Materials' teams on maintaining backup stock during high-demand periods, considering lead time, last time buy, end of life and MOQ, in alignment with buyers and materials planners.
• Actively mediate and partner with quality and engineering teams to resolve supplier quality issues for assigned product groups, escalating to Commodity Business Managers when necessary.
• Work with buyers and MPMs to cancel POs placed with no demand or demand drop.
• Analyze demand in other plants in SAP and transfer POs to the required plant via STO/ICTO.
• For excess materials that cannot be consumed, validate whether rework into another usable part for different products within the organization is feasible and execute that rework.
• Work with buyers to sell back excess parts to vendors at a fee, per alignment with the vendor.
• Align with part designers to scrap excess materials if there is no other usage.

What you'll need

• Demonstrated conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines.
• Ability to leverage inventory management systems, Excel, Kinaxis and Tableau to develop accurate product analysis summaries.
• Understanding of how to utilize SAP, CORE and Teamcenter.
• Ability to interpret drawings and apply product knowledge to rework estimations from suppliers.
• Knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; awareness of competitors and the factors that differentiate them in the market.
• Ability to solve complex problems, take a new perspective on existing solutions, and exercise judgment based on analysis of multiple sources of information.
• Ability to explain difficult or sensitive information and work to build consensus.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Full time, Assignee / Regular employee.
• Travel: Yes, 10% of the time.
• Relocation eligible: Yes.