Regional Demand & Supply Strategist

LANXESS; Woodbridge Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Xwork flexible work program

Job summary

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with about 12,000 employees in 32 countries. The Regional Demand and Supply Planner coordinates regional IBP activities to optimize the production network, balance demand and supply, and manage inventories for the assigned plants.

This HYBRID role (on-site presence required) in Ford, NJ requires a BS in Supply Chain, Engineering or Sciences and at least five years in advanced demand and supply planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering or Sciences.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in advanced demand/supply planning.
• Key User knowledge in SAP IBP, SAP PTM and OTC; MS Office, especially Excel and Power Point.
• Strong influencing skills and the ability to communicate across different levels and diverse cultures
• Demonstrated capabilities in change management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills (English).
• Advanced analytical and problem solving skills; high comfort organizing, institutionalizing, and using data to drive decisions.
• Excellent IT and process affinity.
• Ability to travel between sites as needed.
• This is a HYBRID role with an on-site presence required.

Responsibilities

• Creates and maintains supply plans for the regional supply network. Ensures feasible plan to balance our production facilities, supplier constraints, demand risks, costs and working capital. Facilitates regional Supply Review to ensure coordination between Operations, Procurement, Product Management and Supply Chain. Validates that operations is adhering to the plans.
• Creates and maintains regional demand plan in SAP IBP. Provides regional input to the monthly global Demand Review meeting to ensure coordination between Commercial, Product Management, Finance/Controlling and Supply Chain. Accountable for managing product allocations and improving Forecast accuracy and demand generation process.
• Leads Regional Supply Review meetings. Practices good IBP behaviors and helps to generate alignment across multiple business functions. Supports metric review and root causing below-target performance with corrective action implementation. Develops and clearly presents decisions to be made in the IBP meeting for supply and demand scenarios that have financial impact on the outcome of our business.
• Aligns demand, supply and inventory optimization plans with the business and finance/controlling team in the context of IBP to ensure one plan is used throughout the organization.
• Resolves supply issues through close coordination with operations and product management teams and ensures status communication to customer service and sales representatives.
• Coordinate with a team of Supply Chain Managers and schedulers located at regional production facilities. Accountable for the local execution of detailed production scheduling, target setting and process adherence.

Skills

SAP IBP

SAP PTM

OTC

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Communication across cultures

Analytical skills

Change management

IT proficiency

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering or Sciences

Tools

MS Office

Job description

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with about 12,000 employees in 32 countries. The Regional Demand and Supply Planner coordinates regional IBP activities to optimize the production network, balance demand and supply, and manage inventories for the assigned plants.

This HYBRID role (on-site presence required) in Ford, NJ requires a BS in Supply Chain, Engineering or Sciences and at least five years in advanced demand and supply planning.