Job Description:
Supply Chain Data Analyst
Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2022 revenues of approximately $8 billion from our continuing operations. 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 60 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 7,000 associates within our continuing operations. For more information about Huntsman, please visit the company's website at
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Huntsman is seeking a Supply Chain Data Analyst for our San Jose office in Costa Rica. This position will report to the Regional Supply Chain Director.
Job Scope
We are currently looking for a dynamic individual to work as a Americas Supply Chain Performance Analyst. In this role, you will have broad responsibilities for assisting the Director of Supply Chain, the Director of Sales and others to drive performance improvement in regional and global supply chain processes performance. This role promotes the use of data and analytics to provide insights to process aligned teams to enable them to deliver excellent customer experiences and enabling business, associate and team performance. This role helps to enable management of inventory levels and capacity to meet customer service levels and working capital targets for the business. The foundational element of the role requires expertise in reporting and data manipulation in MS Excel and various other reporting and data storage systems. The successful Performance Analyst then takes this reporting and identifies potential failures or problem areas and works with limited supervision to address and resolve these issues across the business. In sum, this position is an integral part of the business unit's ability to deliver on its service and execution component of our value proposition.
As the Supply Chain Data Analyst, your duties and responsibilities will be:
Strategic Focus
- Promote safe work practices and drive improvement in safety metrics.
- Collaborate with the SC Director and others in keeping existing and developing new reporting and key performance indicator metrics.
- Collaborate with internal business partners to help enable alignment on demand forecasts, manufacturing plans, new product introductions, supplier performance and other related supply chain opportunities.
- Support implementation of supply chain regional and global strategies and best practices in areas such as demand management, order entry, order fulfillment, material replenishment practice, and inventory optimization.
- Establish a culture of "urgency" and systematic, systemic metric driven execution.
- This objective will require the ability to work effectively and persuasively with the functional groups, suppliers, 3rd party providers and supply chain team members.
- Primary liaison between business leadership, IT and raw material/logistics vendors to provide, deploy and manage technology systems to meet business objectives.
- Scope includes management of data requirements, upgrades strategy, user interface, and technology advancements.
Tactical Execution
- Produce and maintain key reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to help manage the business.
- Partner cross-functionally with the Commercial team, Sourcing, Logistics and Operations to develop standardized processes, reporting methods, SCM tools, and technologies in supply planning and scheduling.
- Proactively identify, develop and execute tools that improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our supply chain transactions.
- Maintain appropriate KPIs/metrics to measure service levels, on time delivery and inventory across the supply chain.
- Perform root cause analysis and corrective actions on key metrics.
- This will require both a strategic and tactical perspective in order to develop "partner's" not just raw material or logistics suppliers.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree plus at least 3 years of related work experience
- 3 years of highly relatable experience (chemical industry experience; report creation, generation, and maintenance; supply chain processes ownership/management, etc )
- Energized by collecting and organizing data into business intelligence to drive value into an organization.
- Detail-oriented worker with a high degree of ownership and professionalism.
- Works cross-functionally and collaborates with others to learn and improve the business.
- Excellent communicator who can simplify complex ideas into simple stories avoiding unnecessary detail as situations dictate.
- US VISA preferred to facilitate the knowledge transfer / training process.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree requiring analytical and quantitative skills