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We champion our teams and foster collaboration, inclusion, respect and excellence. Because we want to be more for you.\nA path to a better career. A better future.\nOur teams have invented groundbreaking technologies, manufactured millions of products and earned a long list of awards. Year after year, we’re named one of the World’s Most Admired Companies.\nThey’re the secret to our success-empowered, inventive and inclusive. Passionate about their craft. Driven to succeed. Because we win together.\nAre you ready for a better career? A better future?\nJob Description\nAs a member of the division materials team, the Sr. CBR Specialist will serve as a highly motivated, self-starting contributor who leads and supports automation initiatives, digitalization efforts, and supply chain transformation across the division. You will support materials-related new launch activities, ensuring timely follow-up, issue resolution, and alignment with operational and customer requirements. Provide ongoing support to the CBR function across all NA JIT plants, driving process discipline, data accuracy, and continuous improvement.\nResponsibilities\nProvide divisional support for CBR processes, ensuring consistency in customer release management, BOM accuracy, and engineering change control across multiple plants.\nAnalyze customer releases and demand trend to support accurate planning and prevent supply disruptions.\nMaintain data integrity across SAP/AS400 systems and support master data standardization.\nDevelop and deploy standardized digital reporting tools to improve visibility into demand, inventory health, shortages, change management, etc.\nLeverage Lear’s analytics ecosystem to support operational excellence and digital transformation initiatives.\nSupport new program launches and model-year changes by ensuring release readiness, BOM completeness, and material availability for all impacted plants.\nFacilitate communication across planning, logistics, engineering, quality, supplier management, and IT teams to resolve issues and align actions.\nIdentify and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance CBR processes, reporting efficiency, and planning accuracy.\nAdvantages of working at Lear in the division materials group:\nAccess to advanced analytics tools through Lear’s partnership with Palantir.\nOpportunity to develop deep data analytics skills and be part of a high-impact, innovation-driven team leading supply chain transformation within a Fortune 500 company.\nWork across diverse plants and customer, gaining broad manufacturing experience and accelerating your career growth.\nEducation Requirements\nBachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, business, or a related field.\n3+ years of professional experience in material planning, procurement, logistics, inventory management.\nProven expertise in engineering change control, materials launch, and BOM management.\nStrong data and analytics mindset with the ability to translate insights into business action.\nPassion for digital solutions, with a strong desire to grow as an internal expert in AI, automation and analytics to optimize business processes.\nAdvanced Excel, dashboarding, or visualization skills.\nExperience with MRP/ERP systems with strong proficiency in SAP and AS400.\nBonus If You Have\nExcellent communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional leadership skills.\nExperience using SQL, Python, Power BI, or Palantir Foundry\nExperience with MMOG/LE standards.\nAutomotive supply chain background, JIT experience, or multi-plant coordination.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nLear Corporation is committed to fair, merit-based employment practices and equal opportunity.\nWe provide reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law. 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