Manager, Materials and Planning

Hubbell Incorporated • Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico • 1w ago

Job Overview

The Materials and Planning Manager is responsible for leading all materials planning activities to ensure the timely availability of materials in support of production and customer demand. This role plays a critical part in aligning supply chain execution with operational and business objectives, driving both service excellence and cost performance.

The Materials and Planning Manager will report to the Director of Materials and will partner cross functionally with Production, Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Purchasing to ensure synchronization between demand, supply, and capacity. This role will focus on optimizing inventory levels, improving forecasting accuracy, and mitigating risks related to material availability and supply disruptions.

The ideal candidate will bring strong operational expertise in materials management and a continuous improvement mindset, helping to enhance efficiency, improve material flow, and support overall site performance at the Vega Baja manufacturing facility.

A Day In The Life

Leading materials planning and execution to ensure alignment with production schedules, customer demand, and business priorities

Driving alignment across Purchasing, Production, Operations, and Sales to ensure synchronization between demand, supply, and capacity

Monitoring demand signals, material availability, and capacity constraints, proactively identifying risks and implementing mitigation strategies to protect production continuity

Guiding the team in resolving material shortages, expedites, and supply disruptions, ensuring timely and effective response to operational challenges

Overseeing inventory strategy and execution, including forecasting, safety stock optimization, cycle counts, and inventory accuracy initiatives

Supporting new product introductions, engineering changes, and material transitions, ensuring seamless integration into production

Partnering with warehouse and logistics leadership to maintain efficient material flow, storage practices, and inventory control

Driving performance through data, tracking and analyzing key metrics such as inventory turns, on-time delivery, shortages, schedule attainment, backlog, and past due orders

Leading continuous improvement initiatives that reduce cost, improve efficiency, and optimize working capital across the supply chain

Providing data-driven insights and recommendations to support operational decisions, resource allocation, and long-term planning

What will help you thrive in this role?

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, or a related field

Proven experience in materials management, production planning, or supply chain within a manufacturing environment

Strong understanding of MRP/ERP systems and inventory control processes

Demonstrated ability to balance customer service levels with inventory optimization and cost control

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights

Effective cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to influence without direct authority

Experience managing material shortages, supply disruptions, and capacity constraints in a fast-paced environment

Continuous improvement mindset with experience driving process efficiency and cost reduction initiatives

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Hubbell Incorporated

Hubbell creates critical infrastructure solutions that power our customers, communities, people and the planet. Our company is strategically aligned around enabling grid modernization and electrification. As more products plug in to an aging grid, Hubbell solutions enable the transition to a more reliable, resilient and efficient energy infrastructure. Founded in 1888 our innovation has made us a leading global manufacturer of high quality electrical and utility solutions enabling customers to operate critical infrastructure reliably and efficiently.

The company operates in two segments. Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications and Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. Our vertical market solutions can be applied to markets including Data Centers, Renewables, Commercial Buildings, Industrial, Telecom and Transportation. Supporting both of our business segments is our corporate and Hubbell Unified Business Solutions teams that provide consistent process, tools technologies across our businesses.

We are committed to operating sustainably and ethically while promoting an inclusive and supportive culture for our people to grow and develop in their careers. Our employees proudly work and serve our communities from our headquarters in Shelton, CT, across the United States and around the globe.

Hubbell Electrical Solutions

Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. HES provides the critical components that allow operators of buildings, factories and other industrial infrastructure to connect, protect, wire and manage power.

Hubbell Incorporated, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.

The above summary of position responsibilities and requirements is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of duties, skills, efforts, physical requirements, or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal position elements essential for making decisions related to position performance, employee development, and compensation.

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