Senior Supply Chain & Logistics Leader

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP; Hopewell (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP is seeking a Senior Supply Chain & Logistics Leader for its Hopewell, VA site. This highly visible role drives material movement, storage, and distribution to ensure raw materials and finished goods reach destinations with safety, quality, and efficiency.

You will lead a site team, collaborate with internal and external partners, optimize inventory and transportation, and negotiate with vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university.
• 5–10+ years manufacturing or supply chain experience.
• 3+ years supervisory and leadership experience.
• SAP (or equivalent) experience.
• Experience in a fast-paced, multi-faceted organization.

Responsibilities

• Owns, oversees, and manages movement, storage, and distribution of site raw materials and finished goods.
• Leads a distinct team at the Hopewell site to ensure material availability and timely delivery with quality and compliance.
• Oversees safety, warehousing, cycle counting, tolling, and 3rd party storage.
• Collaborates with onsite/offsite resources to optimize inventory, transportation, and vendor negotiations.
• Balances technical skills with soft skills to maximize onsite team capability.

Skills

Leadership

Supply chain management

Logistics planning

Team supervision

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

SAP

Job description

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Supply Chain & Logistics Leader to join our Ashland LLC, Specialty ingredients G.P. business at our Hopewell, VA location. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Specialty Additives function. This position will report to Site Leader.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Owns, oversees, and manages the movement, storage, and distribution of site raw materials and finished goods.
• This role leads a distinct team at the Hopewell site that performs critical functions to ensure the Operating Units have the raw materials they need and that the finished products reach their final destinations with the compliance, quality, and expediency necessary to make Ashland the provider of choice.
• The role is integral in site safety and compliance, warehousing/cycle counting, product tolling, and 3rd party storage.
• The role is highly collaborative with onsite and offsite resources to control inventory, ensure appropriate transportation, negotiate with key vendors, and to continually optimize the entire process.
• Ashland is looking for an experienced leader that can balance the technical skills needed for the job with the soft skills needed to maximize the capability of the onsite team.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Bachelor's Degree at a minimum from an accredited university
• 5-10+ years of manufacturing or supply chain experience
• 3+ years of supervisory and leadership
• SAP (or equivalent)
• Experience in a fast paced, multi-faceted organization

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow.

Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical.

Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.

At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch.

In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.

Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment.

We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.

Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued.

People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

NOTE: We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.

Infinite possibilities Creating good chemistry isn’t just about what happens when you add the right ingredients together. It’s about what happens when the right people are one of the ingredients. Good chemistry – the kind that can transform a market or a world – is what makes Ashland different and what makes us better.

If you’re passionate about the infinite possibilities created through good chemistry, we have a rewarding and challenging opportunity for you to help us make great things happen every day for our customers, our communities, our investors and our colleagues around the world.