Materials Lead

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Role Overview

The Materials Lead is a mid-level supervisory role overseeing inventory, materials flow, and shipping operations in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. Day-to-day responsibilities include managing receiving, inventory control, order preparation, and outbound shipping, while leading a team to ensure quality and operational consistency. This role impacts production efficiency and service standards by optimizing systems and driving process improvements.

Perks & Benefits

This is a fully remote position, likely with flexible hours, though time zone expectations may align with team collaboration. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare, dental, mental health support, parental planning resources, retirement savings, and generous paid time off. The company emphasizes an inclusive culture with a focus on innovation and world-class support, offering career growth through leadership development and process optimization opportunities.

Full Job Description

Dandy is transforming the massive and antiquated dental industry—an industry worth over $200B. Backed by some of the world’s leading venture capital firms, we’re on an ambitious mission to simplify and modernize every function of the dental practice through technology. As we expand our reach globally, Dandy is building the operating system for dental offices around the world—empowering clinicians and their teams with technology, innovation, and world-class support to achieve more for their practices, their people, and their patients.

About the Role

The Material & Shipping Supervisor oversees all inventory, materials flow, and shipping operations within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This role ensures that materials are accurately received, tracked, prepared, and shipped while maintaining efficient production support and high service standards. The supervisor will lead a team responsible for receiving, inventory control, order preparation, and outbound shipping, ensuring quality, accuracy, and operational consistency.

This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a hands-on leadership role, enjoys optimizing systems, and can balance people management with data-driven decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

Materials

  • Oversee receiving, system transactions, and NetSuite inventory updates.

  • Maintain accurate on-hand inventory through cycle counts and reconciliations.

  • Monitor supply levels and ensure timely replenishment.

  • Improve inventory control processes and reporting.

Leadership & Operations

  • Lead and develop a team of materials, inventory, and shipping associates.

  • Track KPIs, review performance, and drive process improvements.

  • Collaborate with production and operations to maintain smooth material flow.

  • Troubleshoot issues affecting production or shipping timelines.

Qualifications

Required

  • 3–5 years in inventory, logistics, shipping, or materials supervision.

  • Manufacturing environment experience.

  • Strong data analysis, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

  • Experience with digital tools; NetSuite preferred.

  • Proven ability to lead teams and improve KPIs.

Preferred

  • Experience in both inventory management and shipping/fulfillment.

  • Dental, medical device, or warehousing background.

  • Experience with workflow optimization and SOP development.

Req ID: J-1010

For full-time positions, Dandy offers a wide range of best-in-class, comprehensive, and inclusive benefits tailored to each country where we operate. Our local benefits packages typically include healthcare, dental, mental health support, parental planning resources, retirement savings options, and generous paid time off—ensuring our team members are supported no matter where they live and work.

Dandy is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture that celebrates authenticity to win as one. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

Dandy also fully complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We are dedicated to embracing challenges and creating an accessible, inclusive workplace for all individuals. If you require any accommodations for your interview or have any questions beforehand, rest assured that we will do everything we can to meet your needs. Visit Dandy Careers for more!

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