Senior ISC Improvement Manager

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Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior ISC Improvement Manager in the Hydrocarbons business. The preferred location is Houston, Texas but Midland, Michigan would be considered.

Dow Hydrocarbons purchases and processes feedstocks for use in Dow's global operations, and we work to identify alternative and renewable feedstock sources. We turn those feedstocks into basic chemical building blocks and intermediate products for Dow's downstream derivative partners. We are one of the largest global producers of ethylene and a leading producer of propylene, raw materials that are used to manufacture products that consumers use every day. In addition to ethylene and propylene, we produce other co-monomers (like butadiene and octene) and aromatics like benzene and cumene. Nearly all Dow businesses use ethylene or propylene as a raw material.

About you and this role

This role will lead the deployment of the Integrated Multi-Level Planning in the Hydrocarbons business. Provide leadership in deploying integrated supply chain end to end technologies, systems, and work processes to meet business needs. Leverages resources and knowledge both in and outside of the integrated supply chain function and business, to implement new technologies and improvements, which generate best in class performance. Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in job discipline or field to solve or lead others to solve complex problems. May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. You should be able to communicate difficult concepts to others and persuade others to adopt a different point of view. Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations.

Responsibilities

• Develops a continuous improvement strategy and multi-generational plan(s) for Supply Chain in alignment with business and functional strategies
• Manages cross-functional projects to improve end-to-end customer fulfillment experience and to deliver key integrated supply chain initiatives
• Leverages corporate work processes and technologies to enhance business best practices
• Understands, integrates and leverages integrated supply chain MET and best practices into work processes and technologies
• Ensures businesses follows improvement processes and MET, including project charters, optimization tools, approaches and methods
• Applies Integrated Business Planning (IBP) concepts to improve the performance of the division
• Standardizes and implements work processes, systems, tools and metrics
• Proactively shares and ensures compliance with best practices and procedures
• Provides mentoring and development guidance to Business Supply Chain resources

Critical success factors for this role include: critical thinking, specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in job discipline, leadership skills in team management or project management, knowledge on resource requirements, risk and/or complexity, decision making ability and business and customer knowledge and network

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 is required
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in a Supply Chain environment
• Prior SAP and OMP experience
• 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 is preferred
• Strong Project Management skills
• Six Sigma Green Belt

Additional Note

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Benefits - What Dow offers you

We invest in you.

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you needwhen you need it.
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
• Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:
  • Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
  • Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
  • Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group's (ERG) participation.

Join our team, we can make a difference together.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world's leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com.

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