Job Details

Materials Manager

ID

2025-6335

Department

Purchasing

Position Type

Regular

Location

US-ND-Fargo/West Fargo

Job Overview

The Materials Manager will manage the procurement and maintenance of proper inventory levels. The Materials Manager has the overall responsibility for ensuring that the company's material needs are met. The Materials Manager also works to ensure that any material quality issues are effectively addressed at the root cause level and strives to achieve and maintain ship-to-use status for all materials. The Materials Manager will manage employees in the Purchasing department and may also manage employees in the Receiving, Shipping, and Recycling departments. The Materials manager will be responsible for interviewing potential candidates, hiring, training and developing employees.

Highlights of your role

Manage and monitor inventory levels and inventory turns.
• Oversee the development and performance of the purchasing department and other assigned departments.
• Achieve financial objectives by managing materials, labor, and SGA.
• Work with Manufacturing Services on special requests and commercial jobs.
• Responsible for managing strong supplier partnerships and supporting purchasing agents and buyers as key contacts in supplier relationships.
• Maintain and manage supplier performance measures.
• Contribute to reducing Marvin's Operational costs
• Responsible to work with functional departments for determining root cause of material quality issues to drive down to appropriate resolution to manage COPQ.
• Manage obsolescence costs.
• Work directly with scheduling and production to make sure customer demands are met.
• Represent purchasing on project teams.
• Investigate quality concerns to determine root cause
• Prevent quality issues from leaving facility

You're a good fit if you have (or if you can)

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or equivalent experience is required
• Must be proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite and have a working knowledge of ICIM
• Supervisory experience is strongly preferred
• A minimum of four years of Quality/Purchasing management is preferred

We invite you to See Yourself at Marvin

From people to products, Marvin is committed to creating better ways of living. When you join this family-owned and -led window and door company, you belong to a community full of opportunities.

For more than a century, we've been at the forefront of designing, building, and engineering premium, award-winning products. Today, Marvin is also proud to have been named a Top Large Employer by Forbes Magazine two years in a row, in 2024 and 2025. With operations in 19 cities across North America, we manufacture Marvin's quality products, including Infinity Replacement Windows and Doors, and TruStile Doors.

Together, we uphold our values and foster a culture where safety and the wellbeing of our people comes first. We take a better living approach with benefits to support you at work and beyond. From day one, you will enjoy health insurance, paid holidays, paid parental leave, a 401(k) retirement savings match and more!

Some of our unique and most popular benefits include:

• $300 annual wellbeing account to spend on what helps you feel happy + healthy
• Better Living Day! (a paid day off to go have some fun)
• Annual profit sharing - recognizing everyone's contribution to Marvin's success
• Giving at Marvin - participate in organized volunteer opportunities
• Brighter Days Fund - financial support from your colleagues and the Marvin family during personal hardships

Join the more than 8,000 Marvin team members to experience these benefits and more. Apply today!

Marvin is an Equal Opportunity Employer

This job posting is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities of the employee. Accommodation may be made to enable an individual with a disability to perform the essential functions of the position. Any employment offer depends on completing a background check and drug screen to company standards.