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About this role
Leads a team of Supply Chain planners, including day-to-day operations, managing talent selection and performance and interfacing with the business on order fulfillment considerations relevant to the business.
Oversees supply decisions for multiple production sites or multiple plants at one site, within a single business or multiple smaller businesses. Balances supply and demand over the tactical horizon, to achieve optimum product availability, asset utilization and Supply Chain efficiencies. Plant locations will be in a single region or a number of plants globally.
In this role, you will require in-depth conceptual and working knowledge of your discipline or functional area. You will need to understand your discipline's best practices and how they relate to others. You may need to lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements as well as serve as a resource for less experienced colleagues. You should also be able to explain difficult or sensitive information and work to build consensus with others.
It is your responsibility to be able to use judgment to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve day-to-day technical and operational problems and escalate issues with broader business impacts to your leader. You have formal supervisory responsibilities and lead teams either of technical operations, business operations, or operational support employees. You will set daily priorities and coordinate resources to meet operational objectives. Your performance impacts the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of your team members and their contributions to broader operations.
Responsibilities
- Provides direct leadership to a team of SC planning professionals.
- Provides day-to-day coaching on planning operations.
- Accountable for decisions regarding employee desk complexity and performance.
- Ensures work process execution is operating effectively within the team.
- Collaborates with the business to ensure business strategy and service offerings are met.
- Makes hiring decisions, Facilitates training, and provides mentoring.
- Ensures that strategic and tactical business decisions are made with a full and integrated understanding of current and future Supply Chain capabilities, potential impacts to service, cost, working capital and sustainability, and effective risk management/mitigation
- Manages inventory levels to target expectations and customer service availability agreements
- Monitors safety stock targets and manages supply plans against those targets.
- Supports preparation for the Supply Review by running and reviewing appropriate reports/KPIs and dashboards, to ensure a productive discussion and IBP process
- Maintains strong linkages with Demand Manager and ensures full integration with Finance and Accounting
- Resolves issues or exceptions outside the business rules/boundaries and intervenes when needed to address performance gaps
- Assesses short-term feasibility requests from all countries (where necessary)
- Maintains and/or coordinates maintenance of planning parameters in accordance with master data governance
- Drives global Supply Chain initiatives by interfacing with other Supply Chain personnel in the business and shared services.
- Implements metrics for setting and delivering global Supply Chain targets including inventory, Supply Chain cost to serve, transactional service standards, service levels and service quality.
- Tracks key performance metrics, Supply Chain performance data, and generates improvement opportunities and implements new identified opportunities.
Qualifications
- 8 or more years of experience in a Supply Chain or Manufacturing Environment.
- At least 3 years of experience in team or people management.
- University Degree, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering or other Sciences.
- The critical competencies required for success are: Supply Chain management skills, interpersonal effectiveness, team work, team management and delegation, taking initiative, problem solving skills, value creation, technical proficiency in use of computer applications, analytical skills, project management skills, mentoring skills, and independent decision making skills.
Additional Notes
- The ability to accommodate a flexible schedule aligned with international time zones is essential.
Benefits – What Dow offers you
We invest in you.
Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.
Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
Join our team, we can make a difference together.
About Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd
Dow Chemical International Private Limited (Dow India) aims to be the most innovative, sustainable, inclusive customer-centric materials science company. The company is committed to delivering the right solutions to its customers’ challenges. With broadest technology sets spanning performance materials, industrial intermediates, and plastics Dow India delivers differentiated science-based products and solutions in high-growth segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, automobile, and consumer care.
A Great Place to Work® Certified company with approximately over 1000 employees, its operations comprise of manufacturing sites, innovation center, established centers of excellence, and commercial office. As a responsible corporate, the company supports its Corporate Social Responsibility (program) with technology expertise and employee volunteerism. Dow India works with non-profit partners towards the empowerment of differently abled, women, and children in communities where it operates. The company aims to redefine the societal blueprint, by supporting holistic sustainability and circular economy initiatives.
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.
