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Vice President, Global Supply Chain

Vice President, Global Supply Chain

Huntsman is seeking a Vice President, Global Supply Chain supporting the Performance Products Division located in The Woodlands, Texas. This position will report to the Division President.

Job Scope

As a member of the Performance Products leadership team, this role is the senior most supply chain position in the division and is accountable for planning, organizing, and managing the execution of supply chain strategies to improve customer experience, optimize inventory, minimize transportation costs, and increase supply chain effectiveness and end-to-end process execution for Performance Products.

In summary, as the Vice President, Global Supply Chain, you will:

• Contribute in defining the vision, values, and strategy for the organization and ensure its full implementation;
• Lead the Supply Chain structure, processes & development of systems to establish a new heightened level of efficiency and quality of delivery across all Supply Chain functions.
• Ensure that the Supply Chain plays an integral leadership role in engaging with customer/sales needs, reflected in effective production plans, inventory builds & purchasing strategies delivering lowest cost and optimized service level.
• Provide robust leadership across the full Supply Chain, including Inventory Management, Purchasing, Customer Service, and consolidated Forecasting/Demand Planning.
• Support site-based teams and governance on Warehousing, Distribution & Logistics requirements in line with S&OP outputs.
• Provide leadership in the design and implementation of S&OP+ signature process globally, representing Supply operational, forward planning and technical inputs into the business S&OP process.
• Ensure effective Supply Planning and Procurement management evaluation of portfolio choices.
• Develop and execute a supply chain strategy for the Division addressing customer needs, optimized footprint, deliverables and dependencies, and optimized cost and asset performance.
• Identify process gaps and inefficiencies, establishing and implementing best practices that ensure continuous supply of product balanced against inventory levels and transportation costs.
• Analyze related functions to identify synergies and secure adoption of plans to realize performance improvement.

Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are additional 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Chemistry or Business related.
• 20+ years of experience in Supply Chain.

Skills and knowledge

• Extensive international business leadership experience (at least 15+ years) required with a broad background in various business functions.
• The ability to communicate effectively at all levels of an organization.
• The ability to pull complex, multinational teams together and gain commitment from all sides.
• Strong working knowledge of chemical or oil & gas supply chain strategies.
• Demonstrated competence in financial management and working knowledge of income statements, balance sheets and cash flow.
• Solid in managing both domestic and international supply chain organizations.
• Fluency in English is required; other language skills are an asset.
• Experience in reorganization and integration; ability to evaluate assets and operational setup and implement process improvements.
• Solid basis in Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Financials.

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.

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About Us

Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2024 revenues more than $6 billion. 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. For more information about Huntsman, please visit the company's website at www.huntsman.com.