Mila
Materials Manager
Sumner, WA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
Outbound SalesSAPSupply ChainLogisticsProcess ImprovementProcurementERPInventory ManagementFDA RegulatoryLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingNetSuite
About the role
- About MiLa MìLà is a Chinese food company.
- Our teams work tirelessly to enhance delicious products that we all enjoy at home!
- While MìLà is a Chinese food brand, it's really a celebration of the power of food to bring us together, share our stories, and discover new flavors and cultures.
Responsibilities
- Support purchase order follow-up, delivery timing, receiving coordination, and vendor communication as needed to ensure inbound materials arrive accurately and on time.
- Own inventory accuracy for ingredients, packaging, labels, WIP, finished goods, holds, damaged materials, and obsolete inventory.
- Lead the cycle count program, including ABC classification, count schedules, variance investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Own ERP/MRP discipline for receiving, put-away, transfers, staging, production consumption, scrap, returns, holds, releases, adjustments, and finished goods movement.
- Lead shipping and receiving execution, including inbound accuracy, outbound accuracy, BOLs, COAs, temperature checks, lot documentation, and carrier coordination.
- Own daily and weekly material readiness for the production schedule.
- Maintain FIFO/FEFO, lot control, shelf-life management, traceability, material segregation, and cold-chain discipline.
- Partner with FSQA on holds, releases, segregations, dispositions, mock recalls, and traceability exercises.
- Partner with Planning, Procurement, Production, FSQA, Warehouse, and Finance to resolve shortages, supplier delays, inventory risks, and schedule constraints.
- Lead warehouse, receiving, staging, shipping, and material handling teams.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in inventory management, materials management, warehouse operations, supply chain, manufacturing, or distribution.
- 3+ years of people leadership experience in warehouse, inventory, materials, shipping/receiving, or plant operations.
- Strong hands-on ERP/MRP experience, including receiving, transfers, adjustments, production consumption, BOMs, work orders, finished goods transactions, and cycle counts.
- Proven experience improving inventory accuracy through cycle counts, root cause analysis, standard work, and transaction controls.
- Experience managing shipping, receiving, warehouse, material flow, and production staging.
- Strong knowledge of FIFO/FEFO, lot control, shelf-life management, traceability, material segregation, cold-chain handling, and inventory reconciliation.
- Experience supporting production schedules through material readiness and staging processes.
- Experience in food, CPG, manufacturing, distribution, or temperature-controlled operations.
- Ability to work in refrigerated/frozen manufacturing environments with regular floor presence.
- Required Qualifications 7+ years of experience in inventory management, materials management, warehouse operations, supply chain, manufacturing, or distribution.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
- APICS/ASCM certification, such as CPIM, CSCP, or CLTD.
- Experience in frozen food, meat/poultry, prepared meals, USDA/FDA-regulated food manufacturing, or CPG.
- Experience with Fulfill, SAP, NetSuite, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar ERP/MRP systems.
- Experience with barcode scanning, WMS tools, inventory dashboards, or digital warehouse controls.
- Experience with BOM validation, material variance reporting, production consumption analysis, yield loss, and scrap tracking.
- Experience managing outside cold storage, carriers, or 3PL relationships.
- Lean, Six Sigma, 5S, Kaizen, or warehouse optimization experience.
Company info
- Our mission is to build something that feels authentically and uniquely true to our roots as a Chinese-American-founded brand.
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