Job Description:
Regional Demand Planner (Costa Rica GBS)
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 four 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.
Here, you can make an impact and make a difference.
Come join us.
Huntsman's Performance Products Division is seeking a Regional Demand Planner supporting our GBS Site in San Jose, Costa Rica.
This position will report to Demand Planner Manager.
Huntsman Corporation's Regional Supply Chain team is searching for an experienced Demand Planner.
The Demand team is Huntsman's regional support responsible for creating and shaping the demand plan from internal and external demand signals, coordinating input from commercial and marketing stakeholders, while keeping a critical mindset and challenging assumptions supporting the plan.
The initial focus of the team will be to support our Advanced Materials divisions for the North America and South America region.
We are looking for someone that can balance commercial priorities and operation capabilities, an excellent communicator with various internal and external stakeholders and a high focus on data and metrics.
In summary, as the Regional Demand Planner, you will be:
- Owning the demand plan for the next 24 months for your markets, gathering external and internal information that affect the demand and finalize demand plan accordingly at SKU/customer level,
- Working closely with the commercial team to challenge sales forecast, takes final decision on demand plan and inform actively commercial team,
- Communicating demand plan changes to supply planning team, but also to all necessary stakeholders (operations, supply chain, marketing),
- Understanding how supply constraints are affecting the demand plan and reflect them properly and timely,
- Supporting marketing department in portfolio rationalization exercise,
- Acting as a counterpart for other regions demand planners,
- Reviewing necessity of safety stock and determines their value,
- Supply Planning guidance and mitigation action plans,
- Coordinating and prioritizing execution of the demand by communicating actively with supply planning team,
- Developing mitigation action plans whenever supply cannot meet demand, generate consensus with commercial teams, provide decision and guidance in a timely manner.
- Proposing regional allocations for constrained product line, follow-up their execution and provide action plans when deviation is seen,
- Driving monthly IBP Pre-Meeting before regional business review for her/his markets,
- Coordinating, organizing and challenging the input from sales and marketing.
Review assumptions supporting the demand plan.
Assess risks and opportunities linked to it,
- Considering constrained supply information from supply planning and operation teams and revise demand plan accordingly,
- Strategic forecast and demand analytics.
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree, preferably in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, with a proven track record in demand planning and forecasting, ideally in the chemical sector,
- Fluency in English.
Experiences
- Understanding of supply planning and production planning, new product introduction and material planning,
Skills & Knowledge
- High digital literacy and high proficiency in major IT tools (SAP, Excel, PowerBI),
- Strong communication skills to deliver both detailed solution and the big picture,
- Strong interpersonal skills and team oriented.
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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