Job Description:

Supply Chain Excellence Manager

Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2022 revenues of approximately $8 billion from our continuing operations. Our chemical products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. We operate more than 60 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 7,000 associates within our continuing operations. For more information about Huntsman, please visit the company's website at www.huntsman.com.

Here, you can make an impact and make a difference. Come join us.

We are currently looking for a dynamic and results-driven professional as the Supply Chain Excellence Manager for our Polyurethanes Division at our Woodlands, TX location.

Job Scope

The individual must have the expertise and aptitude to organize, lead, and enable performance related to all elements of the value chain within the Americas Regional Supply Chain. In this people manager role, the ideal candidate will use proven leadership and change management skills to identify and drive improvements in business performance, while coordinating efforts with his/her counterparts in Europe and Asia. Business process performance improvements will be primarily driven through working relationships with Commercial (Account Management, Technical Service, Innovation, Performance Management), Operations (Production, Planning, Scheduling, Loading), Corporate (Legal, Credit, Purchasing), and Supply Chain (Sales and Operations Planning, Distribution, Logistics, Customer Service, Toll Manufacturing) Associates. To be successful in this role, you must have the ability to drive change throughout the entire value chain, challenge the status quo, be a positive and influential collaborator, and make things happen. If you are looking for an opportunity to drive change and make your mark, this is the opportunity for you.

As the Supply Chain Excellence Manager, you will:

• Ensure full utilization of Intelligent Lean tools, techniques, and Digital/automation tools/ frameworks to evaluate core operational / business activities with the goal of identifying and eliminating non-value-added activities and improving supply chain performance.
• Own the governance and the community of practice for Continuous Improvement & Problem-Solving including connection to process owners, data scientists, operational & tactical teams.
• Develop and manage supply chain breakthroughs in performance by leveraging industry best practices, key innovations, and other methods to accelerate current performance.
• Develop, drive and lead the supply chain digitization strategy and initiatives.
• Manage two direct reports and own the full employee cycle of performance management, goals and objectives, mentoring and development of those resources.
• With the prior experience in end-to-end Supply chain process, starting with Demand planning, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Supply Planning, Logistics and cash to cash cycle, assess the Supply Chain process maturity, assess gaps and develop & implement improvements.
• Responsible for ensuring a consistent approach in line with Global Supply Chain Excellence strategy and vision.
• Coordinate Supply Chain initiatives and objectives in alignment with organizational goals and strategies.
• Identify targets and metrics that ensure capabilities and capacity are in place to effectively deliver on all Supply Chain performance commitments.
• Apply metrics to measure and ensure that process improvement initiatives deliver value.
• Utilize analytical skills to present recommendations on how to achieve business objectives.
• Utilize collaborative listening and facilitation skills to enable the best strategies and implementation planning.
• Inspire action without relying solely on authority.
• Exhibit strong personal accountability and a willingness to engage others to ensure delivery of objectives.
• Work with cross-functional teams to identify and implement best practices, process improvements, and actions that will deliver improvements in business performance.
• Define current state situation, assess gaps in process, capabilities, and talent, while assisting in the development of the future state in line with strategic plans.
• Drive tangible and measurable improvements of key processes through the leadership, training, and mentoring.
• Identify and share best practices across the different organizational locations.
• Ability to interact with various levels of management.
• Perform all other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

The candidate must have an unrestricted right to work for Huntsman in the United States.

• A minimum of 10 years of industry experience, preferably in chemicals.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required, preferably in a supply chain, technical, or business field.
• Demonstrated success in supply chain improvement related roles, including project development and deployment.
• Sound modeling and optimization skills.
• Command of the Microsoft suite of products (Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
• Strong data visualization and management skills ... data 'savvy' - must have data and analytic 'common sense' and an ability to detect data issues or concerns in multiple ways.
• Ability to work efficiently with big data, complex questions, and complicated analyses.
• Ability to communicate ideas and analysis results effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to work quickly, accurately, independently and as part of a team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree, MBA, or other related advanced degree preferred.
• Experience in driving process and business efficiencies from Process & Data mining tools such as Celonis) is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of the digital / technical landscape of the Supply chain software/tools is highly desirable.
• PowerBI experience is desirable)
• APICS certification CPIM/CIRM is a plus.
• Experience with databases, query/reporting tools is a plus.
• SAP experience is a plus (SD, MM, PP, TMS).

Key Behaviors:

• Ethical, compliant, honest, and trustworthy.
• Customer Focused, with a curiosity about the external world.
• Driven to make a difference, takes accountability and delivers on results.
• Collaborative - is not driven by personal glory and realizes that truly sustainable results cannot be achieved without shared success.
• Self-motivated / high-energy level.
• High tolerance for ambiguity.

Further information:

• Up to 50% travel, mainly to our manufacturing site in Geismar, Louisiana.

Huntsman offers unsurpassed opportunities to build a successful future. Our diverse portfolio creates a range of career fields including manufacturing, research and development, technical services, sales and marketing, customer service - and the list goes on.

Here, you can make an impact and make a difference. Come join us.

Huntsman is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation and/or expression or any other characteristic protected by law in every location in which we have facilities national or local.

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