Materials and Logistics Manager Jobs
Materials and Logistics Manager jobs are open across manufacturing, retail, defense, healthcare, and third-party logistics, from operations coordinator to senior supply chain director, with specializations in procurement, inventory control, and inbound/outbound transportation. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Title:
Materials & Logistics Supervisor
Department:
Manufacturing
Direct Supervisor:
Manufacturing Manager
Position Description:
The Materials & Logistics Supervisor is responsible for leading all shipping, receiving, inventory control, and material handling activities to ensure accurate and efficient material flow throughout the manufacturing operation. This position oversees the flow of materials from receipt, through inventory and production, to the final shipment of finished products. The Materials & Logistics Supervisor ensures manufacturing has the right materials in the right place at the right time while also ensuring customer orders are packaged and shipped accurately and on schedule.
This is a hands-on leadership position that requires a strong understanding of manufacturing operations and the relationship between material availability, inventory accuracy, production schedules, and customer commitments. The Materials & Logistics Supervisor leads through the Shipping Lead and Inventory Control Lead while maintaining overall accountability for departmental priorities, employee performance, operational results, and continuous improvement.
Primary Objectives:
- Ensure effective material flow from receiving through manufacturing and final shipment.
- Maintain accurate and reliable inventory through disciplined processes, timely transactions, cycle counting, and resolution of discrepancies.
- Ensure manufacturing departments have the materials needed to support production schedules and customer commitments.
- Ensure finished products are packaged, documented, and shipped accurately and on time.
- Provide clear leadership, direction, development, and accountability across Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control, and Material Handling.
- Build strong working relationships with internal customers while maintaining focus on the needs of the external customer.
- Identify issues, make timely decisions, and take action to resolve problems.
- Continuously improve departmental safety, accuracy, organization, efficiency, and communication.
Responsibilities:
- Provide overall leadership and direction for Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control, and Material Handling, including leading and developing the Shipping Lead, Inventory Control Lead, and departmental employees.
- Establish clear priorities, expectations, and accountability while coordinating staffing and workload to support manufacturing schedules and customer commitments.
- Ensure accurate and efficient flow of raw materials, components, work in process, and finished goods from receipt through production and final shipment.
- Maintain overall accountability for inventory accuracy, including timely ERP transactions, cycle counting, physical inventory, discrepancy resolution, and inventory process controls.
- Ensure materials are available, staged, and moved appropriately to support manufacturing needs and minimize production interruptions.
- Oversee shipping and receiving activities to ensure incoming materials are received accurately and finished products are packaged, documented, and shipped correctly and on time.
- Maintain awareness of production priorities and proactively address material shortages, inventory discrepancies, shipping concerns, and other issues that could impact manufacturing or customer commitments.
- Build strong working relationships across Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, and other departments, recognizing these groups as internal customers while maintaining focus on the needs of the external customer.
- Develop, maintain, and reinforce SOPs, standard work, and inventory controls to improve consistency, accuracy, and efficiency.
- Identify opportunities to improve material flow, inventory practices, warehouse organization, space utilization, safety, and overall department performance.
- Use ERP information, operational data, and departmental metrics to identify issues, make informed decisions, and drive corrective action.
- Ensure employees follow established safety procedures, Quality Management System requirements, and proper material-handling practices.
- Foster a culture of ownership, urgency, teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement, taking action to resolve problems rather than allowing issues to linger.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Three or more years of progressive leadership experience within manufacturing, warehouse, materials, inventory, logistics, or a related operational environment preferred.
- Previous manufacturing experience strongly preferred. The successful candidate must understand how material availability, inventory accuracy, internal material movement, and shipping performance affect production schedules and customer commitments.
- Demonstrated experience leading employees, providing feedback, setting expectations, and creating accountability.
- Experience leading through Lead employees or coordinating multiple functional areas preferred.
- Experience in shipping, receiving, inventory control, material handling, or warehouse operations; experience across multiple areas is strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of ERP, MRP, or inventory-management systems and the importance of accurate, timely system transactions.
- Experience working with and reinforcing SOPs, standard work, and documented processes.
- Working knowledge of inventory-control principles, cycle counting, physical inventory, and discrepancy resolution.
- Strong problem-solving skills with an action-oriented approach and the ability to move issues toward timely resolution.
- Ability to understand production priorities and balance the needs of multiple internal customers while maintaining focus on the external customer.
- Ability to prioritize competing responsibilities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Strong communication, collaboration, employee-leadership, math, and analytical skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.
- Forklift and material-handling knowledge preferred.
- Ability to work actively within warehouse and manufacturing areas and lift up to 50 pounds.
-
GWC – (Gets the role, Wants to do it, Capacity to do it)
__________
Full time employees are eligible for the following benefits:
- Medical insurance through Medica + free in-home acute health care and on-job site health care through Nice for those enrolled on company's medical plan.
- 100% employer paid Health Partners Dental insurance for single and family (if enrolled on medical plan).
- 100% employer paid premiums for Short Term Disability, Long-Term Disability and $50,000 life insurance policy.
- 401K
- Competitive Paid Time Off
The pay range for this role is:
32 - 37 USD per hour(Aggressive Hydraulics - Cedar, MN )
Title:
Materials & Logistics Supervisor
Department:
Manufacturing
Direct Supervisor:
Manufacturing Manager
Position Description:
The Materials & Logistics Supervisor is responsible for leading all shipping, receiving, inventory control, and material handling activities to ensure accurate and efficient material flow throughout the manufacturing operation. This position oversees the flow of materials from receipt, through inventory and production, to the final shipment of finished products. The Materials & Logistics Supervisor ensures manufacturing has the right materials in the right place at the right time while also ensuring customer orders are packaged and shipped accurately and on schedule.
This is a hands-on leadership position that requires a strong understanding of manufacturing operations and the relationship between material availability, inventory accuracy, production schedules, and customer commitments. The Materials & Logistics Supervisor leads through the Shipping Lead and Inventory Control Lead while maintaining overall accountability for departmental priorities, employee performance, operational results, and continuous improvement.
Primary Objectives:
- Ensure effective material flow from receiving through manufacturing and final shipment.
- Maintain accurate and reliable inventory through disciplined processes, timely transactions, cycle counting, and resolution of discrepancies.
- Ensure manufacturing departments have the materials needed to support production schedules and customer commitments.
- Ensure finished products are packaged, documented, and shipped accurately and on time.
- Provide clear leadership, direction, development, and accountability across Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control, and Material Handling.
- Build strong working relationships with internal customers while maintaining focus on the needs of the external customer.
- Identify issues, make timely decisions, and take action to resolve problems.
- Continuously improve departmental safety, accuracy, organization, efficiency, and communication.
Responsibilities:
- Provide overall leadership and direction for Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control, and Material Handling, including leading and developing the Shipping Lead, Inventory Control Lead, and departmental employees.
- Establish clear priorities, expectations, and accountability while coordinating staffing and workload to support manufacturing schedules and customer commitments.
- Ensure accurate and efficient flow of raw materials, components, work in process, and finished goods from receipt through production and final shipment.
- Maintain overall accountability for inventory accuracy, including timely ERP transactions, cycle counting, physical inventory, discrepancy resolution, and inventory process controls.
- Ensure materials are available, staged, and moved appropriately to support manufacturing needs and minimize production interruptions.
- Oversee shipping and receiving activities to ensure incoming materials are received accurately and finished products are packaged, documented, and shipped correctly and on time.
- Maintain awareness of production priorities and proactively address material shortages, inventory discrepancies, shipping concerns, and other issues that could impact manufacturing or customer commitments.
- Build strong working relationships across Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, and other departments, recognizing these groups as internal customers while maintaining focus on the needs of the external customer.
- Develop, maintain, and reinforce SOPs, standard work, and inventory controls to improve consistency, accuracy, and efficiency.
- Identify opportunities to improve material flow, inventory practices, warehouse organization, space utilization, safety, and overall department performance.
- Use ERP information, operational data, and departmental metrics to identify issues, make informed decisions, and drive corrective action.
- Ensure employees follow established safety procedures, Quality Management System requirements, and proper material-handling practices.
- Foster a culture of ownership, urgency, teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement, taking action to resolve problems rather than allowing issues to linger.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Three or more years of progressive leadership experience within manufacturing, warehouse, materials, inventory, logistics, or a related operational environment preferred.
- Previous manufacturing experience strongly preferred. The successful candidate must understand how material availability, inventory accuracy, internal material movement, and shipping performance affect production schedules and customer commitments.
- Demonstrated experience leading employees, providing feedback, setting expectations, and creating accountability.
- Experience leading through Lead employees or coordinating multiple functional areas preferred.
- Experience in shipping, receiving, inventory control, material handling, or warehouse operations; experience across multiple areas is strongly preferred.
- Working knowledge of ERP, MRP, or inventory-management systems and the importance of accurate, timely system transactions.
- Experience working with and reinforcing SOPs, standard work, and documented processes.
- Working knowledge of inventory-control principles, cycle counting, physical inventory, and discrepancy resolution.
- Strong problem-solving skills with an action-oriented approach and the ability to move issues toward timely resolution.
- Ability to understand production priorities and balance the needs of multiple internal customers while maintaining focus on the external customer.
- Ability to prioritize competing responsibilities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Strong communication, collaboration, employee-leadership, math, and analytical skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.
- Forklift and material-handling knowledge preferred.
- Ability to work actively within warehouse and manufacturing areas and lift up to 50 pounds.
-
GWC – (Gets the role, Wants to do it, Capacity to do it)
__________
Full time employees are eligible for the following benefits:
- Medical insurance through Medica + free in-home acute health care and on-job site health care through Nice for those enrolled on company's medical plan.
- 100% employer paid Health Partners Dental insurance for single and family (if enrolled on medical plan).
- 100% employer paid premiums for Short Term Disability, Long-Term Disability and $50,000 life insurance policy.
- 401K
- Competitive Paid Time Off
The pay range for this role is:
32 - 37 USD per hour(Aggressive Hydraulics - Cedar, MN )
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in materials and logistics manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, logistics, business, or a related field
- 3 to 7 years of experience in materials management, logistics, or supply chain operations
- Proficiency in ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms
- APICS CPIM or CSCP certification preferred or required
- Demonstrated experience with inventory control, demand planning, and warehouse operations
- Strong knowledge of import/export compliance, carrier management, and freight cost analysis
Tips for Your Materials and Logistics Manager Job Search
Quantify inventory and cost outcomes
Hiring managers for this role scan resumes for numbers. Replace phrases like 'managed inventory' with specific reductions in carrying costs, shrinkage rates, or order cycle times you personally drove. That difference moves your resume past the initial screen.
List your warehouse management systems clearly
Materials and logistics postings filter hard on systems experience. Call out every WMS, ERP, and transportation management platform you've used by name in a dedicated skills section, not buried in job descriptions where automated screening misses them.
Target postings by industry vertical
Materials flow and regulatory constraints differ sharply between discrete manufacturing, food and beverage, and medical device distribution. Search by industry alongside job title so the roles you apply to match the compliance environment and supplier dynamics you already know.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists materials and logistics manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a supplier negotiation story
Interviewers for this role almost always ask for a specific example of a supplier dispute, constraint, or renegotiation you resolved. Have a concise, outcome-focused story ready that covers the constraint you faced, the lever you pulled, and what it saved or improved.
Follow up with a logistics-specific detail
After an interview, your thank-you note lands harder when it references a specific operational challenge the team mentioned, like a carrier reliability problem or a peak-season bottleneck, and briefly connects it to something from your background. Generic thank-you notes rarely move the needle here.
Materials and Logistics Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most materials and logistics managers?
CHRISTUS Health, Naval Nuclear Laboratory, and PRAB are hiring the most materials and logistics managers right now, with openings concentrated in Texas, Michigan, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Manufacturing, defense contracting, and large retail distribution operations tend to post the highest volume of these roles consistently.
How many materials and logistics manager jobs are remote?
About 17% of materials and logistics manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, which is lower than many management roles because the work is tied to physical inventory and facilities. The sub-areas most likely to offer remote flexibility are procurement, vendor management, and supply chain analytics, where the core work happens in systems rather than on a warehouse floor.
How do you become a materials and logistics manager?
Most materials and logistics managers start in entry-level roles like inventory analyst, logistics coordinator, or purchasing assistant and build up from there. Earning an APICS certification, such as the CPIM or CSCP, accelerates promotion by validating your planning and operations knowledge. Moving into a manager role typically requires demonstrating that you can own a budget, lead a team, and hit fill-rate or cost targets independently.
Can you get hired as a materials and logistics manager without much experience?
Getting hired directly into a manager title without experience is rare, but adjacent roles in logistics coordination, materials planning, or warehouse supervision are realistic starting points. Employers in smaller manufacturers or distributors are more likely to promote from within or hire someone with strong systems knowledge and a relevant certification over raw years of experience. Focus your applications on companies where the manager role oversees a small team rather than a large regional operation.
What does the materials and logistics manager interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a phone screen from HR focused on systems experience and years in the field, followed by a panel interview with the operations director and one or two peers. Expect at least one behavioral question about a supplier failure or inventory discrepancy you resolved, and sometimes a short scenario exercise where you walk through how you'd handle a stockout or a carrier delay. A site tour or a meeting with the warehouse team is common before a final offer.
Where can I find and apply to materials and logistics manager jobs?
You can find and apply to materials and logistics manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level and industry background, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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