Senior CBR Specialist

Senior CBR Specialist

As 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide divisional support for CBR processes, ensuring consistency in customer release management, BOM accuracy, and engineering change control across multiple plants.
• Analyze customer releases and demand trend to support accurate planning and prevent supply disruptions.
• Maintain data integrity across SAP/AS400 systems and support master data standardization.
• Develop and deploy standardized digital reporting tools to improve visibility into demand, inventory health, shortages, change management, etc.
• Leverage Lear’s analytics ecosystem to support operational excellence and digital transformation initiatives.
• Support new program launches and model-year changes by ensuring release readiness, BOM completeness, and material availability for all impacted plants.
• Facilitate communication across planning, logistics, engineering, quality, supplier management, and IT teams to resolve issues and align actions.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance CBR processes, reporting efficiency, and planning accuracy.

Advantages of working at Lear in the division materials group:

• Access to advanced analytics tools through Lear’s partnership with Palantir.

• Opportunity 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.

• Work across diverse plants and customer, gaining broad manufacturing experience and accelerating your career growth.

• Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, business, or a related field.

• 3+ years of professional experience in material planning, procurement, logistics, inventory management.

• Proven expertise in engineering change control, materials launch, and BOM management.

• Strong data and analytics mindset with the ability to translate insights into business action.

• Passion for digital solutions, with a strong desire to grow as an internal expert in AI, automation and analytics to optimize business processes.

• Advanced Excel, dashboarding, or visualization skills.

• Experience with MRP/ERP systems with strong proficiency in SAP and AS400.

• Bonus If You Have

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional leadership skills.

• Experience using SQL, Python, Power BI, or Palantir Foundry

• Experience with MMOG/LE standards.

• Automotive supply chain background, JIT experience, or multi-plant coordination.

• Equal Opportunity Employer

• Lear Corporation is committed to fair, merit-based employment practices and equal opportunity.

• We provide reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law. For assistance during the application process, contact your recruiter directly.

Location Code:

• 0123

• Nearest Major Market: Detroit

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