Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Title: Sr. Materials Manager
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Austin, TX
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide.
Title: Sr. Materials Manager
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Austin, TX
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Role Overview
A leading social media company is seeking a Sr. Materials Manager to own the end-to-end relationship with assigned ODM partners, serving as the single point of accountability for material readiness, supply continuity, and production execution across server and infrastructure hardware programs. Seeking expertise to define and institutionalize the operating processes that govern newly onboarded and existing vendor partnerships to a rapidly scaling environment. We are looking for a strategic operator with strong program management instincts who is energized by ambiguity and adept at creating processes.
Key Responsibilities
Design and implement the operating framework for newly onboarded and existing ODM and vendor partnerships, including governance, review cadence, escalation paths, and performance reporting.
Own the ODM partner relationship end-to-end; drive MRP alignment and manage Clear-to-Build (CTB) cycles.
Track material availability against build plans and escalate gating components before they impact the schedule.
Translate material risks into actionable recovery plans; ensure on-time delivery to the global data center buildout schedule.
Manage complex BOMs in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
Interface daily with commodity managers, NPI, logistics, PO management, and engineering to resolve constraints.
Communicate status and risk concisely to leadership, drive accountability with external partners.
Minimum Qualifications
Own the ODM partner relationship end-to-end; drive MRP alignment and manage Clear-to-Build (CTB) cycles.
Track material availability against build plans and escalate gating components before they impact the schedule.
Translate material risks into actionable recovery plans; ensure on-time delivery to the global data center buildout schedule.
Manage complex BOMs in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
Interface daily with commodity managers, NPI, logistics, PO management, and engineering to resolve constraints.
Communicate status and risk concisely to leadership, drive accountability with external partners.
Minimum Qualifications
Demonstrated success establishing operating processes and governance cadence with newly onboarded and existing vendors or partners.
Experience managing complex BOMs in high-volume manufacturing.
Strong strategic planning and program management capability.
Direct experience working with ODM planning and procurement teams.
Strong cross-functional coordination and clear, concise executive communication.
Ability to navigate conflict and drive external partner accountability.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience managing complex BOMs in high-volume manufacturing.
Strong strategic planning and program management capability.
Direct experience working with ODM planning and procurement teams.
Strong cross-functional coordination and clear, concise executive communication.
Ability to navigate conflict and drive external partner accountability.
Preferred Qualifications
Direct ODM experience; prior ownership of a full ODM CTB cycle is the top differentiator.
Hyperscale or large-scale ODM/EMS background.
Networking rack experience is a plus; adjacent hardware or high-volume manufacturing experience also translates.
Project management skills are an added plus.
Hyperscale or large-scale ODM/EMS background.
Networking rack experience is a plus; adjacent hardware or high-volume manufacturing experience also translates.
Project management skills are an added plus.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Austin, TX |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $80 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.More jobs like this
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