Materials Manager

About the role

Halliburton is looking for a Materials Manager for its Oils Operations site in Basra, Iraq. The role has general autonomy and covers inventory management, financial control of stock levels and team leadership, with potential responsibility for managing operations across several facilities in the region.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee inventory management: ordering, processing goods issues and receipts, coordinating inventory reduction and redeployment, and carrying out physical inventory verification.
• Control inventory levels, resolve problems, prepare and analyse critical control reports and scorecards, and improve process efficiency.
• Lead the team, manage training programmes and handle hiring and firing decisions, including interviews, performance appraisals, discipline, compensation recommendations and grievance handling.
• Understand the sales order process as it applies to materials and interface with project service lines and other support functions.
• Promote Lean and continuous improvement initiatives and comply with the company's safety programme.

Required profile

• Four-year undergraduate degree in supply chain, engineering/applied mathematics, finance/accounting or business.
• Five years of work experience.

Required skills

• Strong computer skills and analytical ability to solve problems.
• Knowledge of warehouse operations equipment.