Posted in Other 30+ days ago.
Location: Midland, Michigan
Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) is the largest business unit in Dow. The business combines core strengths of R&D, worldwide reach, broad product lines and industry expertise to deliver high performing technologies for end use markets in food packaging, personal hygiene, infrastructure, consumer goods and transportation. Dow P&SP is one of the world's largest producers of polyethylene resins, functional polymers and adhesives, and is a leading innovator and collaborator across the value chain on sustainable application development and circular economy life-cycle design for plastics.
The Senior Supply Chain Planning Specialist will work within all value centers in P&SP to decide what, when and where to supply for multiple sites or multiple plants, within a single business or multiple smaller businesses. They will balance supply and demand over the operational horizon, to achieve optimum product availability, asset utilization and supply chain efficiencies. This role also provides formal guidance and training to new team members. Through collaboration with other ISC colleagues, they will analyze best practices and implement solutions using technical experience, judgment and precedents to solve problems and improve work processes.
Responsibilities / Duties:
Generates a time-phased supply/production schedule to fulfill business requirements in the short-term, while considering plant wide constraints, and meeting inventory and customer service targets.
Develops plans to support new item introductions, ensuring product availability for all customers, as well as item discontinuations, mitigating product obsolescence.
Determines and/or executes the most effective regional or global sourcing rules.
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.
Develops external manufacturing agreements, or executes agreements already in place.
Manages inventory levels to target expectations and customer service availability agreements.
Establishes 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.
Owns supply-demand balances for assigned desk, drives resolution of strategic gaps and significant capacity challenges and develops sourcing strategies.
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 continuous improvement by periodically reviewing and providing recommendations to enhance the distribution network, and by ensuring current manufacturing strategies are appropriate.
Assist with training responsibilities for production and/or detail planners
Required Qualifications:
A minimum of a Bachelor's degree or relevant military experience at a U.S. E6 rank or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or higher.
A minimum of 2 years' Experience in a Supply Chain or Manufacturing environment.
A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.
Preferred Qualifications:
Degree discipline preferably in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering or other Sciences.
Prior experience with SAP and OMP is strongly preferred.
Prior experience in Logistics, Planning, Scheduling or Order Management (ORH).
Note: Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
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About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation and leading business positions to achieve profitable growth. The Company's ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company, with a purpose to deliver a sustainable future for the world through our materials science expertise and collaboration with our partners. Dow's portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer care. Dow operates 106 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 35,700 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $39 billion in 2020. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.
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