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About this role
Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Supply Chain Scheduling Specialist/Senior Supply Chain Planner located in Midland, MI or Houston, TX.
This role:
- Decides what, when and where to supply multiple production sites or multiple plants at one site, within a single business or multiple smaller businesses.
- Balances supply and demand over the operational horizon, to achieve optimum product availability, asset utilization and supply chain efficiency.
- Requires broadened conceptual and working knowledge and experience in job discipline to perform a range of work assignments.
- Uses prescribed guidelines or policies in analyzing situations and receives a moderate level of guidance and direction. Provides informal guidance to new team members. Analyzes possible solutions using technical experience, judgment and precedents to solve problems.
In this role, you will require understanding of key business drivers for your discipline and function. You will need to be able to expand conceptual and working knowledge related to your discipline or functional area. You are expected to provide informal guidance to new team members and be able to explain complex information to others.
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
- Generates a time-phased supply schedule to fulfill business requirements in the short term, while considering plant wide constraints, and meeting inventory and customer service targets
- Determines and/or executes the most effective regional or global sourcing rules
- Implement external manufacturing agreements or execute agreements already in place
- Owns and operates site or regional planning models (provides functional expertise for model operation; assures most efficient use of information technology)
- Serves as a local site coordinator/planner for integration of internal demand, utilities or environmental operations at a particular location
- Routinely checks and tracks inventory quantity, slow-moving or other inventory statuses and ensures that inventory volumes meet the plan
- Identifies, prioritizes and addresses supply issues (e.g. short-term capacity constraints, product shortage, emergency customer order received, uncovered production requirement, etc.)
- Leads collaboration with customer service, manufacturing, logistics, third-party service providers and business partners to meet business obligations in case of unplanned events
- Ensures proper maintenance of production parameters (material masters, work centers, routings) to ensure effective planning
- Follows best practices, procedures and governance over master data
- Supports global supply chain initiatives by interfacing with other supply chain personnel in the business and shared services
Potential Planning Focus
- Production/Packaging Planning: Develop and manage detailed production or packaging schedules, capacity utilization, material availability, sequencing, and manufacturing requirements to ensure efficient and reliable product supply.
- Demand Planning: Build and maintain feasible demand plans using historical data, commercial and customer insights, assumptions, statistical outputs, and product availability; identify demand changes, bias, risks, and opportunities and communicate their impact to relevant stakeholders.
- Supply Planning: Create constrained supply and sourcing plans across sites and businesses within the region; balance production, inventory, external manufacturing, procurement, and logistics options to meet demand and business priorities.
Qualifications
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree or relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E5 ranking or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant. Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering or other Sciences preferred.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant 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.
Your Skills
- Supply Chain Planning (SCP): The ability to balance supply and demand by developing time-phased production, packaging, and sourcing plans with consideration of constraints, capacity utilization, material availability and manufacturing requirements in order to ensure efficient and reliable product supply while integrated supply chain, operational, and business objectives are achieved.
- Inventory Management: The ability to monitor, control, and optimize inventory levels, including tracking stock status, addressing shortages, managing slow-moving inventory, and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Analytical Thinking: The ability to evaluate data, identify trends, assess supply risks, analyze constraints, and make sound business decisions using logic, judgment, and problem-solving skills.
- Communication: The ability to clearly articulate plans, constraints, objectives and outcomes to a wide array of internal and external constituents through multiple mediums
- Cross-Functional Work: The ability to collaborate effectively with integrated supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, third-party providers, and business partners to resolve supply issues and meet business objectives.
Note: this role does not offer relocation assistance.
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, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when 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.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- 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.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- 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.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)
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 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2024. 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.
As part of our dedication to inclusion, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.
Dow is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to providing opportunities without regard for race, color, religion, sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity, national origin, age, disability and genetic information, including family medical history. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may call us at 1-833-My Dow HR (833-693-6947) and select option 8.
