Evonik Industries - Mapleton, IL
posted 3 months ago
As a Senior Supply Chain Manager at Evonik, you will play a pivotal role in managing the day-to-day business requests and requirements from various departments including Sales, Marketing, Production, Logistics, Procurement, and Customer Service for the Mapleton site. Your responsibilities will encompass handling product shortages and managing the allocation of products and capacities, ensuring that material availability for raw materials, intermediates, and final products is maintained. You will analyze complex product and equipment interconnections within the Mapleton site to proactively respond to potential issues. In this role, you will establish and manage the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process in collaboration with involved parties, ensuring that master planning is derived from sales forecasts. You will lead a planning team responsible for raw material disposition, product, and transportation planning to guarantee product availability, including managing stock transfers from and to external warehouses. Your expertise will also be crucial in supporting and coordinating capacity planning for the plants, optimizing inventory levels to meet demand, and ensuring the usage of standard processes and tools. You will closely monitor Net Working Capital (NWC) in a frequently changing planning environment, ensuring that the Mapleton Supply Chain team responds swiftly to changes in supply and demand. Additionally, you will be responsible for meeting NWC targets, managing Supply Chain reporting for the Mapleton site, and driving improvements in productivity, cost, quality, and efficiency of operations. Your role will also involve supporting product introductions and transfers, managing compliance requirements, and overseeing annual inventory stock-taking. As a senior member of the Site Leadership Team, you will represent the Supply Chain function, support the definition and execution of site strategies, and act as the deputy to the Head of Supply Chain Management for the Americas. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence and shape the supply chain operations within a leading global organization.