Demand Planning Manager

Job Description:

Demand Planning Manager

Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals. 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. We operate more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within our three distinct business divisions. Huntsman offers unsurpassed opportunities to build a successful future. Our diverse portfolio creates a range of career fields including manufacturing, research and development, technical services, sales and marketing, customer service – and the list goes on.

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Huntsman is seeking a Demand Planning Manager supporting the Advanced Materials Division located in The Woodlands, Texas or San Jose, Costa Rica. This position will report to the Global demand & Supply Director.

Job Scope

Coordinate and lead Demand management activities at regional level. Working closely with commercial on the forecast and forward-looking view of customer demand as well as Growth plan and promotion. Updating system to deliver unconstraint demand and consensus supply. Understand with manufacturing sites management of constrained line. This position is a key interface between Commercial and Manufacturing activities (IBP). Cost-to-serve, inventory, production, customer orders fulfillment are the main processes. A full understanding of Customer, product, Strategy set up is required.

In summary, as the Demand Planning Manager, you will:  

 IBP DEMAND MANAGEMENT

• Manage Demand at regional level and support commercial and ALT on demand evolution taking into account internal and external factors
• Key activities in managing deviation from Plan (MAPE/BIAS) and challenge input of commercial
• Sustain transformation of information into key data into business systems.
• Be the interface between demand and business for all stakeholder and ALT.
• Provide relevant and structured information to the plants to offer visibility and support target achievement.

Major tasks:

• Central point for demand management
• Forecast accuracy
• Alignment of demand and financial figures taking into account growth plan, opportunities and promotion
• Focus on elements that move the needle

EXTERNAL DEMAND UNDERSTANDING & SENARIO

• Understand, translate and synthetize external factors to color demand evolution with tangible information
• Using structured input to drive business simulation and scenario to maximize profit

Major tasks:

• Synthetize external factor
• Work on business simulation
• Guide organization to the next level of demand management

PROJECTS & STANDARDISATION

• Work in coordination with other divisions to review demand and forecasted processes to optimize and standardize current processes.
• Improve ways of working and deliver key improvement that will enable further optimization in operations such as cost, working cap and service level

Major tasks:

• Network design
• Optimization of the working processes
• Harmonization of methodologies across AMER sites
• Optimize cost-to-serve

Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition 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 OR Costa Rica.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

• Master's degree either in Business or Supply Chain
• Commercial exposure and more than 5 years' work experience S&OP and Material Handling
• Language skills. Fluent in English (Spanish a plus)
• APICS or equivalent experience

Experiences:

• Demand management, S&OP/IBP,
• Knowledge of business needs and customer service level
• Understanding of commercial priorities
• Demonstrated in inventory management
• High focus on data and metrics
• Project management and deeply process-oriented
• Cost-to-serve optimization and process design

Know-how/skills:

• Good communication skills as a coordination between Business, Production and Supply Chain
• Strong interpersonal skills and team-oriented
• Strong convincing and negotiation skills
• Ability to delegate and create collective team mobilization
• High analytical skills based on data
• Design organization to deliver targets and strategy
• High computer literacy and high proficiency in major IT tools (SAP, Excel, IBM PA, BI)

Key Competencies:

• People Management
• Building Relationships and Networking
• Achieving Valuable Results
• Customer Focus
• Conceptual and Innovative Thinking
• Corporate Principles
• Identify, Analyze, Solve, Implement, Sustain change mindset

Organizational Relationships :

• Part of the Commercial and Supply Chain Leadership Team
• Work closely with Site Manager and Operations Manager
• Assure implementation and sustainability standard implementation in accordance with the PMO
• Customer Service, Distribution, Demand Planning, IBP Manager, Marketing, Sales

Special Features:

• Service level implementation
• Business project involvement
• Forecasting system update
• SC operation in planning, warehousing and distribution

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 in every location in which we have facilities national or local. 

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Additional Locations:

San Jose