With around 480 locations in over 40 countries, thyssenkrupp Materials Services is the biggest materials distributor and service provider in the western world. The broad service spectrum offered by the materials experts enables customers to focus on their individual core business. The area of Materials Services spans two strategic areas: global materials distribution as one-stop-shop – from steel and stainless steel, tubes and pipes, nonferrous metals and specialty materials to plastics and raw materials – and tailored services in the areas of materials management and supply chain management. An extensive omnichannel architecture offers 250,000 customers worldwide cross-channel, round-the-clock access to more than 150,000 products and services. A highly efficient logistics system ensures that all requested services are smoothly integrated into customer production processes “just-in-time” or “just-in-sequence”.

thyssenkrupp Materials NA is a subsidiary of the internationally operating thyssenkrupp Group. Headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, thyssenkrupp Materials NA is a leading provider of production materials and integrated service solutions with almost 2,900 employees and more than 95 locations in North America. With annual sales of $2.9 billion, the company is focused on value-added processing and distribution of a full line of aluminum, stainless, copper, brass, specialty metals, steel, and plastics products. Supply chain management, transportation and logistics, and production support outsourcing solutions are among the many services provided to customers. Business units include Copper and Brass Sales, Engineered Plastics, Ken-Mac Metals, OnlineMetals, thyssenkrupp Steel Services, thyssenkrupp Supply Chain Services, and thyssenkrupp Materials de Mexico.

Your responsibilities

• Project Manager for thyssenkrupp Materials NA, Inc. in Houston, Texas.
• Procure steel products from producers worldwide, including negotiating, arranging, contracting, maintaining, and executing orders with global suppliers and U.S. customers.
• Grow and maintain customer base, and filter and qualify suppliers based upon customer requirements.
• Interpret and analyze international product standards, negotiate logistical and financial issues with global suppliers, and resolve customer and supplier disputes.
• Support procurement, supply chain, and marketing processes.
• Support continuous improvement and quality control initiatives.
• Contribute to ongoing improvement for products, as well as external and internal processes.
• Monitor compliance with legal, state, and federal regulations.
• 20%domestic and international travel for customer and supplier visits.

Your profile

Bachelor’s Degree in Operations Management, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or Logistics Management, or foreign equivalent, and 1 year of experience in an international product trading position in the iron and steel trading industry, or alternatively 3 years of experience in an international product trading position in the iron and steel trading industry.

1 year of experience with each of the following:

• Translating commodity steel and oil and gas-related pipe and tube product strategies into detailed requirements and prototypes and sample orders.
• Maintaining multi-million dollar key accounts, including facilitating the development of new commodity steel and oil and gas-related pipe and tube products.
• Utilizing technical knowledge of commodity steel and oil and gas-related pipe and tube product capabilities and limitations to assist customers in making product selections.
• International sourcing of commodity steel and oil and gas-related pipe and tube products, including establishing supply chain strategies for transportation from the supplier to the customer.
• Interpreting international commodity steel and oil and gas-related pipe and tube product standards, including analyzing foreign-made products and determining whether or not they meet North American customer specifications and governing standards.
• Developing and implementing long-term supplier and customer growth and development strategies for commodity steel and oil and gas-related pipe and tube product trading operations, including product marketing activities.
• Developing risk & compliance management strategies for commodity steel and oil and gas-related pipe and tube products.

Experience can be acquired concurrently.

Please contact Brianna.Tombaugh@thyssenkrupp-materials.com for additional information or to apply; identify Project Manager Position. EOE.

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