Position Description:

The Cost Accountant will be responsible for maintaining all product cost metrics while holding manufacturing cost margins. Analyze actual manufacturing costs and prepare reports comparing standard and actual costs.  Inventory cost management and reconcile cycle counts and period end inventory balances.  Analyze and adjust any inventory reserve balances.

Responsibilities:

• Collect, prepare, analyze and report weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually gross margin analysis by various products, customers, types, etc.
• Assist in month-end closing, prepare journal entries as necessary, analyze inventory evaluation, inventory roll forward.
• Set Standard Costs of manufactured goods.
• Reconcile any PPV each month.
• Analyze cost accounting data and assist with cycle count/physical inventories.
• Maintain internal control documentation and test internal controls.
• Prepare detailed account analysis and reconcile sales, cost and inventory, and liability accounts
• Review and analyze inventory and margin reports, conduct research, and perform analytical studies in regard to cost analyses and profitability.
• Support and assist department reporting requirements such as audit schedules, tax schedules and others
• Ensure timely submission, accuracy and validity of inventory, gross margin schedules to management
• Determines fixed costs such as salaries, rent, and insurance.
• Predicts, plans, and records variable costs such as purchases of raw material, labor, and operation costs.
• Reviews and analyzes actual costs to identify inaccuracies.
• Assists with company-wide budgeting reports.
• Reviews, analyzes, and reports actual profit margins.
• Assists with month-end and year-end closings.
• Determines and recommends cost-effective solutions.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Advanced Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Oracle Netsuite or other ERP systems.
• Thorough understanding of accounting procedures.
• Thorough understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills, with close attention to detail.
• Ability to manage confidential information.
• Ability to research, compile, analyze and interpret data.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or Business Administration required.
• At least two years of experience in cost accounting required.
• Experience in a Manufacturing Operation preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

Location:

This position is located at Bigbelly HQ in Needham, MA

Employee Benefits

• Challenging Careers: Work with industry-leading technology, alongside the smartest people, for some of the largest cities in the world.
• Great Work Environment: Open office space, dynamic culture, paid vacation & company holidays.
• Hybrid Work Schedule: Opportunity to work from home partially during the workweek.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation. Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life insurance coverage, plus 401(k) with company match.
• Opportunity to Give Back: Two paid volunteer days per year to spend out in the community with your organization of choice.

Position Description:

The Primary responsibilities of the North American Channel Support Rep will be to assist Bigbelly’s Regional Sales Director West with a named Strategic Partner, in maintaining and growing the existing Partner, leveraging Partner relationships to drive new business and expanding the Partner network via the Partners newly acquired companies. This roll will combine both a sales and account management/support mentality, as this position places strong emphasis on maintaining and growing existing relationships and earning new mindshare for Bigbelly products.

The chosen candidate will be tasked with cultivating opportunities for new Bigbelly sales through outbound calling, follow-up calls and emails, tracking orders, preparing quotes, assisting marketing campaigns, and inbound lead follow up to Partner. Our candidate should be able to understand the needs and requirements of the inbound prospective end customer (or partner) and utilize that information to smoothly transition the prospect to a field-based channel partner rep.

Success in this role will require:

• Ability to multitask and prioritize tasks
• Excellent written, verbal and listening skills
• The ability to be focused and flexible in a changing environment
• A strong work ethic
• Ability to sometimes work off hours as this is a national support position.
• Excellent relationship management skills

Responsibilities:

• Respond to inbound calls and requests from partner, and their customers
• Prepare assessments, presentations, proposals, quotes and process orders for the Partner
• Maintain partners named account list in coordination with Regional Director of Sales
• Ensure opportunities are progressing through the purchasing process through continuous follow-up
• Outreach to partners sales people to grow the account via new bookings for Bigbelly product
• Some direct outreach to partner named account municipalities and colleges/universities (ie “end-user”) within a regional geographic
• Launch and train new territories/sales teams of Partner as needed

Qualifications:

• 5-10 years in a business to business sales environment
• Sales or customer service experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products
• Strong attention to detail and follow through
• Ability to work independently and collaborate in a team setting
• Self-motivated
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of Salesforce.com or other CRM tools
• Required travel estimated at 25%

Location:

This is a remote position located in California.

Employee Benefits

• Challenging Careers: Work with industry-leading technology, alongside the smartest people, for some of the largest cities in the world.
• Great Work Environment: Open office space, dynamic culture, paid vacation & company holidays.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation. Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life insurance coverage, plus 401(k) with company match.
• Opportunity to Give Back: Two paid volunteer days per year to spend out in the community with your organization of choice.

Position Description:

We are looking for an experienced Sales Development/Inside Sales Manager to manage, oversee and support our inside sales representatives’ team. This role is ideal for candidates who enjoy sales, teamwork, and inspiring others to give their best in finding opportunities and achieving great outcomes.

The Business Development team plays a critical role in the Bigbelly Sales organization. The Sales Development Team is accountable for strategically generating all new business opportunities for the Bigbelly sales team and for driving small to midsize opportunities to close within their territory.

This sales quota-bearing position is responsible for the entire sales process for Bigbelly’s small to midsize opportunities and for executing strategic lead generation campaigns. Lead generation campaigns are strategically targeted toward potential Bigbelly customers within the assigned territory and consist of cold calls and cold emails. Success in this role will be dependent on one’s ability to build enough interest with potential customers via cold calls and cold emails that the prospect agrees to a sales web presentation. Ideal candidates for this position must be confident and skillful at giving sales presentations and should be able to navigate sales calls with ease. Our sales process requires an ability to determine customer pain points and key drivers for adopting our product.

The right candidate for this role thrives in a fast-paced and changing environment. They actively seek out new challenges and aim to be the best at everything they do. They must be resilient, persistent, positive, open-minded, and eager to learn.

This is a mid-level position reporting to the Vice President of Worldwide Sales in Needham, MA.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and qualify prospective customers and record sales prospecting activity in computer-based tracking systems
• Research into assigned territory to select targets
• Marketing campaign development, implementation, and follow-up
• Outbound sales cold calling and emailing
• Inbound sales follow-up
• Present the Bigbelly product to leads via web conferencing platform
• Contact sourcing for key players within the target region
• Pipeline management
• Identifies and qualifies prospective customers and records sales prospecting activity in computer-based tracking systems
• Manage and oversee the work of inside sales representatives’ team
• Coach, train, evaluate and monitor sales representatives’ performance
• Set and track sales targets and KPIs
• Coordinate sales projects to meet deadlines
• Execute sales analysis, prepare sales reports, and suggest improvements
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual sales forecasts
• Use customer feedback to generate ideas about new features or products
• Research and discover methods to increase customer engagement
• Ensure sales, finance and legal policies and procedures are met
• Build an open-communication culture inside your team
• Works with the field sales organization to ensure that representatives are provided adequate support in the field

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of previous working experience as an Inside Sales Manager
• Hands on experience with CRM software (Salesforce a plus) and MS Excel
• In-depth understanding of the sales process
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and team management skills
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to coach and motivate a team
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Driven and ambitious individual with a strong desire to succeed
• BSc degree in Sales, Business Administration, or similar relevant field

Location:

This position is located at Bigbelly HQ in Needham, MA

Employee Benefits

• Challenging Careers: Work with industry-leading technology, alongside the smartest people, for some of the largest cities in the world.
• Great Work Environment: Open office space, dynamic culture, paid vacation & company holidays.
• Hybrid Work Schedule: Opportunity to work from home partially during the workweek.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation. Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life insurance coverage, plus 401(k) with company match.
• Opportunity to Give Back: Two paid volunteer days per year to spend out in the community with your organization of choice.

Position Description:

A Sales Development Associate plays a critical role in the Bigbelly Sales organization. The Sales Development Associate Team is accountable for strategically generating all new business opportunities for the Bigbelly sales team and for driving small to midsize opportunities to close within their territory. The ideal candidate for this role is self-motivated, results-oriented, professional, and an expert communicator.

This sales quota-bearing position is responsible for the entire sales process for Bigbelly’s small to midsize opportunities and for executing strategic lead generation campaigns. Lead generation campaigns are strategically targeted toward potential Bigbelly customers within the assigned territory and consist of cold calls and cold emails. Success in this role will be dependent on one’s ability to build enough interest with potential customers via cold calls and cold emails that the prospect agrees to a sales web presentation. Ideal candidates for this position must be confident and skillful at giving sales presentations and should be able to navigate sales calls with ease. Our sales process requires an ability to determine customer pain points and key drivers for adopting our product.

The right candidate for this role thrives in a fast-paced and changing environment. They actively seek out new challenges and aim to be the best at everything they do. They must be resilient, persistent, positive, open-minded, and eager to learn.

This is an entry-level position reporting to the Director of Sales, ISS & Distribution Channel in Needham, MA.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and qualify prospective customers and record sales prospecting activity in computer-based tracking systems
• Research into assigned territory to select targets
• Marketing campaign development, implementation, and follow-up
• Outbound sales cold calling and emailing
• Inbound sales follow-up
• Present the Bigbelly product to leads via web conferencing platform
• Contact sourcing for key players within the target region
• Pipeline management
• Identifies and qualifies prospective customers and records sales prospecting activity in computer-based tracking systems

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
• Experience cold calling preferred
• Experience giving presentations preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• MS Office experience
• Time management skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and collaborate in a team setting
• Knowledge of Salesforce.com

Location:

This position is located at Bigbelly HQ in Needham, MA

Employee Benefits

• Challenging Careers: Work with industry-leading technology, alongside the smartest people, for some of the largest cities in the world.
• Great Work Environment: Open office space, dynamic culture, paid vacation & company holidays.
• Hybrid Work Schedule: Opportunity to work from home partially during the workweek.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation. Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life insurance coverage, plus 401(k) with company match.
• Opportunity to Give Back: Two paid volunteer days per year to spend out in the community with your organization of choice.

Position Description:

Bigbelly is the world leader in Public Space Waste Solutions.  Bigbelly products are designed to dramatically increase the operational efficiency for our customers while beautifying their public space in a way that produces measurable reductions to our customer’s carbon footprint. The Bigbelly solution leverages smart technologies, such as IoT, along with new and traditional manufacturing and materials.

We are looking to add a creative, self-starting mechanical engineer to our current team.  This position is based in our Needham, MA office and offers the option of working remotely a few days of the week.  Ideally, you have experience in design for manufacturing on products using sheet metal and molded plastics and have a proven track record of working closely with contract manufacturers to successfully launch new products.

This role plays a critical part of Bigbelly’s strategy of working with Tier 1 manufacturing partners for our new product launches and continuous refinement of existing products.  This position does require some domestic and international travel.

Bigbelly has an exciting development roadmap for expanding our current capabilities on both the smart physical hardware and our integrated digital media platform.  This position plays a critical role in executing that plan.

You need to be as comfortable working in a SolidWorks CAD mechanical design environment as you are working with actual prototype parts in an Engineering Lab environment.  This position will require you to work hands-on with prototypes and conduct extensive testing of new ideas.

Responsibilities:

• Lead product development projects from concept to detailed design to tested prototypes to successful production launch
• Drive cost reduction through new design and new manufacturing techniques
• Increase product reliability by diagnosing issues and designing robust solutions
• Improve manufacturing documentation through collaborative effort with Tier 1 manufacturing partner

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (required)
• 3+ years of experience in product design, specifically in mechanical design and manufacturing (required)
• Proficient in Solid Works design software (required)
• Ability to work independently and collaborate in a team environment (required)
• Attention to detail and solid follow through (required)
• Extensive manufacturing engineering experience (preferred)
• Product reliability and testing experience (preferred)
• SolidWorks PDM experience is a plus
• Arena (bom.com) experience is a plus

Location:

This position is located at Bigbelly HQ in Needham, MA

Employee Benefits

• Challenging Careers: Work with industry-leading technology, alongside the smartest people, for some of the largest cities in the world.
• Great Work Environment: Open office space, dynamic culture, paid vacation & company holidays.
• Hybrid Work Schedule: Opportunity to work from home partially during the workweek.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation. Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life insurance coverage, plus 401(k) with company match.
• Opportunity to Give Back: Two paid volunteer days per year to spend out in the community with your organization of choice.

Position Description:

We are looking to add a creative, self-starting mechanical engineer to our current team.  This position is based in our Needham, MA office and offers the option of working remotely a few days of the week.  Ideally you have experience in design for manufacturing on products using sheet metal and molded plastics and have a proven track record of working closely with contract manufacturers to successfully launch new products.

This role plays a critical part of Bigbelly’s strategy of working with Tier 1 manufacturing partners for our new product launches and continuous refinement of existing products.  This position does require some domestic and international travel.

Bigbelly has an exciting development roadmap for expanding our current capabilities on both the smart physical hardware and our integrated digital media platform.  This position plays a critical role in executing that plan.

You need to be as comfortable working in a SolidWorks CAD mechanical design environment as you are working with actual prototype parts in an Engineering Lab environment.  This position will require you to work hands-on with prototypes and conduct extensive testing of new ideas.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the manufacturing effort to bring new products into production.
• Ensure best practices are used in the layout of production lines, work stations, work instructions, process control and repeatability, etc.
• Lead on-going process improvements and cost reductions
• When manufacturing process or quality issues arise, lead the efforts to identify root cause and put in place corrective actions
• Work with suppliers in evaluating specification changes to parts that could result in lower parts cost without compromising part quality
• Improve manufacturing documentation through collaborative effort with Tier 1 manufacturing partner

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (required)
• Ability to work independently and collaborate in a team environment (required)
• Attention to detail and solid follow through (required)
• Extensive manufacturing engineering experience (5 years minimum)
• Product reliability and testing experience (preferred)
• Arena (bom.com) experience is a plus

Location:

This position is located at Bigbelly HQ in Needham, MA

Employee Benefits

• Challenging Careers: Work with industry-leading technology, alongside the smartest people, for some of the largest cities in the world.
• Great Work Environment: Open office space, dynamic culture, paid vacation & company holidays.
• Hybrid Work Schedule: Opportunity to work from home partially during the workweek.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation. Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life insurance coverage, plus 401(k) with company match.
• Opportunity to Give Back: Two paid volunteer days per year to spend out in the community with your organization of choice.

Position Description:

Bigbelly is seeking a Software Engineer to join the team responsible for the design, development, and evaluation of software systems which connect our global network of devices to our API, mobile and web apps.  These systems gather and analyze data, as well as provide control and presentation of data to our users in useful, intuitive ways.

Responsibilities:

• Write and maintain existing code for Bigbelly’s web applications and other services
• Document code via state diagrams, flowcharts, and other techniques
• Define and implement detailed engineering specifications/validation test plans and internal processes related to software development
• Work hand in hand with designers and other developers to build exciting new solutions for a broad set of user types and challenges

Qualifications:

Required:

• Experience in a professional Java software development environment
• Experience with front end development
• Strong written and verbal communications skills
• Able to work independently and as part of a small team
• Must be willing and able to work on-site daily at Bigbelly HQ in Needham, MA

Preferred:

• Experience with RDBMS, Linux and/or Apache Tomcat
• Experience with UX/UI design
• Experience with CI/CD practices and tools
• Experience with creating documentation and release processes
• Familiarity with AWS, Salesforce, or other cloud services
• Familiarity with automated testing and other software testing tools
• Familiarity with Swift/Android Studio

Location:

This position is located at Bigbelly HQ in Needham, MA

Employee Benefits

• Challenging Careers: Work with industry-leading technology, alongside the smartest people, for some of the largest cities in the world.
• Great Work Environment: Open office space, dynamic culture, paid vacation & company holidays.
• Hybrid Work Schedule: Opportunity to work from home partially during the workweek.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation. Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life insurance coverage, plus 401(k) with company match.
• Opportunity to Give Back: Two paid volunteer days per year to spend out in the community with your organization of choice.

Position Description:

We are looking to add a UI/UX Front End Developer to our software development team in Needham, MA. Bigbelly provides the option for hybrid in-office / home, but you must be willing to commit to working in person at the office partially during the week.

This is a technical role for an individual contributor; You must have UI/UX experience defining web applications (mobile application development is also desirable), along with a proven history of working as technical contributor, writing front end code, for web applications.

Bigbelly has an exciting development roadmap for expanding our current capabilities on both the web and mobile application portions of our product.

In this role you will be examining existing products and helping develop new products with the goal of providing modern, intuitive and user-friendly digital tools for our customers and service providers.

You need to be able to thrive in a small team environment, able to help define, prototype, demonstrate, develop and test.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and extend Bigbelly’s web application, written with JSP, JavaScript, Bootstrap, CSS, jQuery, and HTML5
• Explore new front end development techniques and technologies to help inform and set the direction for the software team’s future work
• Storyboard, prototype, and present UI/UX concepts for Bigbelly’s web and native mobile apps
• Work directly with Bigbelly’s external software contractors, and occasionally with customers and distributors
• Document your designs and code using state diagrams, flowcharts, and other techniques
• Define and implement products from engineering specifications, validation plans, and other internal processes

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of a proven track record developing and executing user experiences using JavaScript, Bootstrap, CSS, jQuery, and HTML5 (required)
• Ability to interpret legacy code and modify accordingly (required)
• Experience with other modern JavaScript frameworks (strongly preferred)
• Familiarity with building mobile applications for Android and iOS (plus)
• Comfortable with using Jira/Confluence/Git for all project management needs
• Familiarity with SQL and other back-end technologies
• Discipline to adhere to documentation and release processes
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Ability to work both independently and within teams
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Comfortable managing your own time and projects by multitasking and context switching

Location:

This position is located at Bigbelly HQ in Needham, MA

Employee Benefits

• Challenging Careers: Work with industry-leading technology, alongside the smartest people, for some of the largest cities in the world.
• Great Work Environment: Open office space, dynamic culture, paid vacation & company holidays.
• Hybrid Work Schedule: Opportunity to work from home partially during the workweek.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation. Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life insurance coverage, plus 401(k) with company match.
• Opportunity to Give Back: Two paid volunteer days per year to spend out in the community with your organization of choice.

Responsibilities:

• Safety: Champions and advocates adherence to safety rules to protect self and others from injury throughout the operation.  Provides manufacturing equipment, jigs and fixtures with features that ensure safe operation. Recommends material handling equipment that prevents bodily injury to the operator. His/her safety advocacy extends to support functions such as Stock Room, Shipping and receiving. To support manufacturing goals below:
  • No near misses
  • No safety violations
  • No missed work due to injuries
  • No unsafe work practices observed
  • No violations regarding failure to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when appropriate
• Productivity: Plans, organizes, implements, and controls the manufacturing process of the Value Stream he/she is assigned, ensuring the most effective utilization of all resources, high processing speed, quality, and consistency.
  • Estimate production cycle times, labor requirements and related costs to provide information for management decisions.
  • Meet with engineering and shop personnel to resolve design problems related to material characteristics, dimensional tolerances, service requirements, manufacturing procedures and cost.
• Cost: Initiates plans and processes which minimize manufacturing costs through effective utilization of manpower, equipment, facilities, material, and capital.
  • Analyzes audited direct labor hours applied by process or product to ensure efficiencies are to standards.
  • Improves processes and recommends courses of action to reduce “touch time” while increasing speed.
  • Analyzes rework through root cause finding and institutes preventative corrective action.
  • Recommends and drives improvements ensuring manufacturability. Initiates corrective actions to increase supplier quality level.
  • Lead Continuous Improvement teams through Kaizen events.
  • Plan and recommend VA/VE cost reduction opportunities.
• Project Management:
  • Lead mid to high level manufacturing projects, providing direction, guidance, and engineering expertise to team members.
  • Attend project meetings, oversee the manufacturing team to develop and maintain manufacturing action plans for new tooling, equipment, and production scheduling needs.
  • Coordinate project builds with planning and production, follow up actions, including but not limited to Engineering and commercial teams.
  • Create collaborative project communication channels with Engineering, Manufacturing, Production Scheduling, commercial team.
  • Develop and maintain Gantt Charts, Project Schedule, Risk Assessment, and Contingency Plans.
  • Develop action plans, project metrics, and then measure and report progress of improvements on an ongoing basis.
  • Deliver formal presentations to leadership regarding project status.
• Planning:
  • Develop, evaluate, and improve manufacturing methods and work methods.
  • Develop and document standard processes and procedures.
  • Analyze and plan space requirements, workflow, and design layout of equipment and workplace for maximum efficiency.
  • Meet with planning and design staff concerning product design and tooling to ensure efficient production methods and provide technical information and direction.
• Quality Assurance: Supports the attainment of the Company’s Quality objectives ensuring product standards and policies will exceed our expectations.
  • Understands and supports quality policies and implements guidelines to assure adherence to quality documents and ISO standards.
  • Improves quality through process improvements.
  • Manages the ISO process.
  • Develops and maintains Quality Assurance Metrics.
  • Plans and directs periodic audits to ensure adherence and develops and CA and action plans.
• Leadership:
  • Encourage and facilitate the incorporation of Lean objectives and processes.
  • Implement manufacturing strategies and actions that support the company’s strategic initiatives (Lean and continuous improvement)
  • Work effectively with all other departments to meet deadlines, objectives, and ship dates.
  • Meets with team members periodically to review SQDC (Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost) boards and CONC Metrics.

Qualifications:

• 15+ years in an engineering discipline in a design and MTO capital electro-mechanical equipment environment preferred.
• Practical knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and CI process is a must. Familiarity with Six-Sigma methodology desirable but not required.
• Demonstrated capability to interpret data and trends and develop action plans.
• Experience working in an engineered product line in a Lean Mfg. environment.
• Able to interpret industry standards, technical drawings, and manufacturing procedures.
• Computer skills in Microsoft Office products. Able to input data and retrieve information from an ERP system and working knowledge in Arena.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in data entry, work package and schedule.
• Clear and positive verbal and written communication skills to work successfully face-to-face, on the phone, and by email.
• Must have a successful track record of leadership, and calmly resolve conflict in a way that promotes teamwork and positive relationships.
• Good organizational skills, able to establish priorities and complete a high volume of work to specific deadlines.
• Four-year degree preferably, or equivalent experience, in an engineering or related field

Location:

This position is located at Bigbelly HQ in Needham, MA

Employee Benefits

• Challenging Careers: Work with industry-leading technology, alongside the smartest people, for some of the largest cities in the world.
• Great Work Environment: Open office space, dynamic culture, paid vacation & company holidays.
• Hybrid Work Schedule: Opportunity to work from home partially during the workweek.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation. Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life insurance coverage, plus 401(k) with company match.
• Opportunity to Give Back: Two paid volunteer days per year to spend out in the community with your organization of choice.

Responsibilities:

• Develops Master Production Schedule, monitor workload capacity and inventory. Optimize manufacturing line resources to ensure that output plan, deadlines and internal financial goals are met.
• Generates the materials drive and production plan based on:
  • Business plan, coordinates with SCM team to ensure material availability for production starts.
  • New product enhancements, upgrades
  • Returned equipment rework.
  • Pilot and prototype run.
• Conduct regular business and plan execution reviews related to demand and supply with internal stakeholders and production controls to ensure production output plan is met.
• Coordinates and synchronizes execution plan of product enhancements and new product launches with production and Product Eng. Resolves resource constraints due to competing product demands.
  • Work with cross-functional teams to manage & maintain relevant new product/ feature enhancements milestones as it relates to production readiness and launch plan.
• Use data analytics to identify, prioritize, and drive root cause corrective actions. Assists in developing both short term (1 year) and long term (3-5 year) materials and manufacturing strategy.
• Manage the disposition of material and product driven by ECO’s.
• Facilitates operations meetings as required to ensure successful communication and job execution to meet planned output expectations, financial goals, and deployment targets.
• Leads the SIOP process meetings to review service levels, performance against schedule, inventory strategy, supply plan to meet demand, and resource implications. Update Master Production Schedule as necessary.
• Operations custodian of the ERP manufacturing planning and execution modules.
• Monitors and advises production in developing a rough capacity weekly model to ensure execution to plan, full utilization of resources, and management of bottlenecks. Recommends resource allocations and in-source/out-source tactics.
• Creates policy, process, and standards.
• Drives/recommends process change and organizational change management.

Leadership Style:

• Effectively delegates work in a matrix configuration.
• Establishing long-term capabilities and resource planning to continue evolution of teams.
• Motivates and empowers individuals to excel in what they do.
• Builds high performing teams with people that are engaged, share a sense of ownership, and have a company first-mentality.

Qualifications:

• Four-year degree in an Engineering discipline, Materials Management, Business Administration, or related discipline desired.
• APICS certification in Materials Management or Production and Inventory Management desirable but not essential
• 7+ years of Materials and production planning experience in an electromechanical products environment
• Demonstrated ability to make decisions based on data trending and intuition.
• Basic general business acumen that enables sound decision making and clear communication with Sales, Finance and Engineering.
• Able to interpret industry standards, technical drawings, and manufacturing procedures.
• Must have strong computer skills in Microsoft Office and be at the expert level in Excel or similar software. Power user status in ERP system, preferably NetSuite.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in data entry, work package and schedule.
• Clear and positive verbal and written communication skills to work successfully face-to-face, on the phone, and by email.
• Must have a successful track record of leadership, and calmly resolving conflict in a way that promotes teamwork and positive relationships.
• Good organizational skills, able to establish priorities and complete a high volume of work to specific deadlines.

Location:

This position is located at Bigbelly HQ in Needham, MA

Employee Benefits

• Challenging Careers: Work with industry-leading technology, alongside the smartest people, for some of the largest cities in the world.
• Great Work Environment: Open office space, dynamic culture, paid vacation & company holidays.
• Hybrid Work Schedule: Opportunity to work from home partially during the workweek.
• Compensation & Benefits: Competitive compensation. Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life insurance coverage, plus 401(k) with company match.
• Opportunity to Give Back: Two paid volunteer days per year to spend out in the community with your organization of choice.