Senior Supply Chain Planner (Leveraged/Projects)

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Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Supply Chain Planner - Leveraged/Projects. This role is located in Midland, MI.

About you and this role
This role will require understanding of key business drivers for your discipline and function. Run the Business activities will involve deciding what, when and where to have inventory for multiple production sites or multiple plants at one site, within a single business or multiple smaller businesses. Balancing supply and demand, planning production or managing demand forecasts over the tactical horizon to achieve optimum product availability, asset utilization and supply chain efficiencies. Plant/warehouse locations will be in a single region or a number of sites globally. You are expected to provide formal guidance to new team members and be able to explain complex information to others. Special projects may be designed around critical needs within P&SP ISC. This role will be leveraged across all the value centers in Polyethylene and Functional Polymers, as needed, between run the business activities and special projects.

It is your responsibility to use technical experience, established practices, and personal judgement to analyze and resolve straightforward problems. Your performance impacts the quality of your own work and your team’s work and requires that you work within established guidelines and policies.

Responsibilities

• Leads, develops, decides, communicates and implements tactical plans across the assigned plants – while maintaining strong linkage into Plants to ensure conformance to schedule and drive labor / capacity plans, and into Areas to secure customer service delivery.
• 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 tangent supply chain planners 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/demand 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.
• Special Projects as determined.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree or relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E6 ranking or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant.
• A minimum of 3 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 Skills

• A degree discipline in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering or other Sciences
• Supply chain management skills
• Interpersonal effectiven