Regional Sourcing Leader

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Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Regional Sourcing Leader located in Midland, MI!

About you and this role

You will lead a sourcing team with co-responsibility, functionally, to collaborate with the global sourcing organization in strategy development and ensure implementation of commercial areas strategies within a specific geographical scope to maximize the business profitability both short and long term (P&L). You will provide leadership to professional individual contributors and be accountable for the performance and results of a team within your commercial area of responsibility.

In this role, you will lead one or more teams of professionals and/or first-line leaders of operational support employees. You will need to have knowledge of the business operations of your discipline or functional area. You will need to fully understand these business operations and how teams work together to achieve operational objectives. You should be able to guide and persuade others, both internally and externally, to adopt a different point of view.

It is your responsibility to be able to identify technical and operational problems and recognize and understand broader impacts across multiple teams within your discipline or functional area. You will need to be able to lead one or more similar teams of professional individual contributors within your discipline. You also may lead teams of technical operations, business operations, or operational support employees who may or may not have supervisors. You will set priorities and allocate resources to align with business objectives and plans of execution. Your work is guided by policies and departmental plan and your performance impacts your team’s ability to achieve service, quality, and timeliness of objectives.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and strengthening of the global strategy and implement in the region.
• Ensure value creation for Dow by working stakeholders and your team to define sourcing opportunities, develop and align sourcing strategies, leverage and develop supplier relationships, analyze market conditions, and negotiate contracts.
• Responsible for delivering the regional EBITDA and Cash flow targets for the commercial area of responsibility within sourcing.
• Work with internal and external partners to ensure effective execution of the Global Procurement Work Process within your region.
• Demonstrated depth of expertise in managing a portfolio with significant stakeholder, customer, supplier and partner impact.
• Lead Sourcing Team to align priorities with businesses and functions to optimize sourcing strategies and deliver business results.
• Provide leadership and guidance to individual contributors in the implementation of projects in alignment with the global strategic sourcing process.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree or relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E6 or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant ranking.
• A minimum of 7 years of relevant working experience.
• A minimum requirement for this US-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 Skills

• Negotiation skills.
• Prior experience in manufacturing and/or operations.
• Experience in effectively managing relationships with stakeholders and vendors.

Additional Notes

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

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