Materials Escalation Manager – Aftermarket

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Materials Escalation Manager managing supply chain escalations for aerospace and defense. Leading cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of critical parts and improving supplier performance.

Posted 7/31/2026full-timeRockford • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $107,500 - $204,500 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Supply Chain Management, including escalation processes, cross-functional issue resolution, and performance monitoring. Proficient in analyzing data trends and implementing continuous improvement strategies to enhance supplier performance and meet customer delivery requirements.

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Supply Chain Escalation ManagementCross-Functional Issue ResolutionSales & Operations Planning (S&OP)Data Analysis and Trend IdentificationProject Management

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Hard Skills

Supply Chain ManagementMaterial Requirements Planning (MRP)Demand PlanningInventory ManagementChange Management

Soft Skills

Stakeholder CommunicationTeam CollaborationProblem Solving

Tools & Technologies

ERP SystemsSAPOracle

Industry Keywords

Aftermarket PlanningSupplier PerformanceContinuous ImprovementCritical Parts ManagementForecasting

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERPOracle

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Act as the primary escalation focal for the Aftermarket Planning team; responsible for owning, improving, and executing the supply chain escalation process.
Monitor critical supply chain issues, evaluate risks, analyze trends, and coordinate cross-functional actions to ensure timely resolution and improved supplier performance.
Maintain thorough knowledge of key products, critical parts, delivery challenges, customer requirements, internal planning methodologies, and external factors impacting supply chain performance.
Manage and prioritize multiple concurrent supply chain escalations.
Lead cross-functional issue resolution including root cause analysis, solution development, execution tracking, and stakeholder communication.
Develop, maintain, and enhance escalation processes, standards, and workflows that support supply chain performance, customer expectations, and future growth.
Establish and utilize metrics to monitor escalation trends, supplier delivery performance, and overall site supply chain health.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Collaborate with Product Line leaders to assess monthly spares consumption needs based on forecast, inventory, customer orders, and capacity constraints.
Support monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP).
Identify and communicate step-down priorities across the demand stream to ensure alignment and focus on highest-impact material risks.
Support Collins Aftermarket business segments by monitoring and reporting supplier performance relative to shortages, recovery commitments, line-of-balance status, and corrective actions.
Partner across Supply Chain sub-functions—including procurement, planning, operations, and supplier performance—to drive coordinated actions that meet customer delivery requirements.
Serve as the primary contact to the Product Line and Product Service Managers for spares-related delivery issues, escalations, and recovery planning.
Respond promptly to Part inquiries related to supplier delivery commitments, material status, and recovery timelines.
Share process expertise by providing guidance, training, and support to team members and business leaders to ensure consistent application of escalation and recovery practices.
This position may occasionally support off-hours needs in alignment with 24/7 business operations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years experience
Experience in Supply Chain, Operations Management, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience leading complex cross-functional issue resolution or supply chain/material escalations.
Strong understanding of Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP/S&OP), material requirements planning (MRP), demand planning, and inventory management principles.
Proven ability to analyze large data sets, identify trends, assess risk, and develop actionable recovery plans.
Demonstrated project management and change management experience.
Experience working with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or similar enterprise planning systems.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
Tuition reimbursement program
Student Loan Repayment Program
Life insurance and disability coverage
Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
Adoption Assistance
Autism Benefit
Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
And more!