Materials Manager at Invealth Partners Limited

Job Summary

• The Materials Manager is accountable for end-to-end materials governance for the project quantification, demand planning, procurement support, logistics, receiving, storage, issuance, reconciliation, and materials cost variance control. This role ensures the project does not suffer from material shortages, wrong specifications, wastage, pilferage, over-ordering, or untraceable stock

Main Duties

• Lead material take-offs, validate BOQs, and establish consumption benchmarks per work package.
• Build a Materials Requirement Plan (MRP) aligned to the construction schedule including long-lead items and critical path materials.
• Maintain a rolling 3–8-week lookahead materials forecast.
• Provide procurement with approved specifications, quantities, delivery timelines, and alternates where value engineering is viable.
• Support vendor selection through technical/commercial evaluations and benchmarking.
• Validate procurement requests against budget and programme; flag deviations early.
• Establish receiving protocols: delivery notices, inspection checklists, documentation, and acceptance/rejection controls.
• Ensure materials received are checked for: quantity, specification compliance, damages, certifications/test reports where applicable.
• Ensure storage standards are maintained to prevent deterioration, damages, theft, or expiry.
• Implement controlled issuance via approved requisitions from supervisors and track usage against installed quantities.
• Maintain inventory records (bin cards, stock cards, receipt/issue registers, variance
• registers).
• Investigate and report variances, losses, abnormal consumption, and drive corrective actions.
• Provide periodic materials cost variance reports (budget vs committed vs consumed vs wastage).
• Support interim valuations and final account by reconciling materials installed vs issued.
• Ensure materials close-out: surplus recovery, returns, and final reconciliation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying; required.
• COREN/QSRBN registration is an advantage.
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience with at least 3 years managing materials/logistics/control on active projects.
• Strong competence in reconciliation, procurement support, and site coordination.