Senior Director Procurement Americas

Job Description:

Senior Director Procurement Americas

Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals. 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 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within our four distinct business divisions. Huntsman offers unsurpassed opportunities to build a successful future. Our diverse portfolio creates a range of career fields including manufacturing, research and development, technical services, sales and marketing, customer service - and the list goes on.

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Huntsman is seeking a Senior Director Procurement Americas located in The Woodlands, Texas. This position will report to the Vice President of Purchasing & Logistics.

Job Scope:

Provide overall leadership and management to Huntsman's Corporate Purchasing Team in the Americas region. Manage all Direct and Indirect spend in the region across all businesses to maximize value and minimize the total cost of ownership of all spend to the Huntsman businesses.

Manage the North & South American Sourcing team as an integral part of all the Huntsman businesses by developing and aligning Corporate Purchasing strategies and priorities with Huntsman business center strategies to deliver commercial excellence for each business as well as Huntsman overall. Serve as Purchasing representative on various business leadership teams.

Through leadership, set, manage and deliver the targeted purchasing savings through exploiting the global, regional and business specific leverage and synergy opportunities.

Lead global Data & Analytics team to ensure functional and business alignment with data and tool development while driving value creation from this team.

Actively participate in the Global Purchasing Leadership Team - to assist in setting and implementing strategic objectives, policies, procedures, and drive home projects both regionally and globally for the overall benefit of Huntsman.

Manage and develop key senior level relationships with suppliers in major, global and regional organizations and companies.

Ensure Corporate EH&S objectives are disseminated throughout the Americas Purchasing team and that all team members are focused on achieving those objectives.

As the Senior Director Procurement Americas you will:

Operate Organization as 'Integral part of all Huntsman businesses'

Lead continuous transformation of organization to be "fit for purpose" as Huntsman's businesses evolve over time. High level of focus should be on developing and driving adoption of downstream/specialty chemical procurement strategies within the organization to ensure maximum business alignment and value capture, while also delivering reliable cost competitive upstream feedstocks.

Manage the Americas' Purchasing organization to develop and manage the long-term purchasing strategies for all key spend categories (Feed-stocks, Energy, Raw Materials & Chemicals, Contracts, Goods & Services, MRO Stores and Capex, Toll Manufacturing, Contracts & Services, Travel & Expense and Capital spend) for the individual Huntsman businesses in the Americas region while ensuring continuous improvement to the organization's associates, tools, procedures and culture.

The jobholder's role for all spend categories:

• Develop and maintain an understanding of the global/ regional markets, economics and drivers.

• Full involvement in the development of sourcing strategies for the key materials and services.

• Ensure ample communication and collaboration of sourcing strategies for key materials and services with the appropriate Huntsman business centers.

• Participate in and as appropriate, lead negotiations of key contracts and deals across the spend categories.

Value Delivery - Cost Down

• Oversee the setting of team goals and targets, and delivery of repeat annual savings (variable & fixed cost reductions) unrelated to market movements each year.

• Ensure savings are achieved by exploiting global, regional and business specific synergies and teams as well as conducting a professional commercial purchasing job.

• Ensure savings are delivered by understanding the total cost of ownership for the business specific supply chains and processes as well as meeting specific business strategies.

Business Development & Acquisitions

Support the businesses in challenging their supply chains and manufacturing strategies by exploiting 'buy vs make' opportunities as well as challenging current modus operandi in other spend categories.

Lead or manage the Purchasing team's involvement in Merger & Acquisition initiatives. This includes early involvement in due diligence activities, identification of saving opportunities.

Setting and achieving goals, as well as management and delivery of the identified and 'promised' savings/value delivery is essential. Delivery of acquired business full integration into the Huntsman Corporate Purchasing function.

Business Process Development

Drive the Purchasing Director Team to deliver innovation of purchasing processes across the businesses. Support the businesses in developing transactional excellence (including e-procurement) by improving ERP/systems efficiency as well as automation of manual processes in order to reduce non-added value activity and reduce fixed cost involved in procuring materials, goods & services.

Organizational Development

Through visible leadership behaviors and actions develop the Americas Purchasing team to be a motivated organization in which High Performance Management techniques are imbedded processes and that high-quality people wish to work and develop their capabilities and careers.

Develop, empower and recruit talent enabling the Americas Purchasing & Logistics organization to continue to deliver additional value to the businesses.

Up-dated job descriptions and timely personal objectives setting, and regular performance appraisal is the standard. Personal development plans in place for all key individuals (business critical). This includes succession planning.

Compliance and Ethics

Professionalism, ethics, and corporate compliance are essential to this role as purchasing is the face of the company to the outside world in many instances. Maintaining our reputation and fundamental values must be second nature to be successful in this position.

Required Qualifications:

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.

The candidate must have an unrestricted right to work for Huntsman in the United States.

Education and experience :

• A college degree in a related discipline is required, and an advanced degree is preferable.

• A minimum 10-15 years of professional experience in commercial functions and preferably 3-5 years of supply chain/manufacturing experience.

• Extensive experience as a leader in Purchasing activities within a medium to large scale Specialty Chemical company is highly desirable

Skills:

• High degree of strategic influencing competencies.

• Develop and maintain personal relationships with our largest global and regional suppliers at Senior Management levels.

• Strategic Visioning, Strong Leadership, Teamwork and very strong Achieving Competencies.

• Resilience and self-motivation are important characteristics for the jobholder as the position is a very independent role with the line-manager (VP for Purchasing and Logistics).

• Intellectual rigor coupled with a high level of numeracy and analytical capability is also essential balanced with intuition and decision-making ability.

Huntsman is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation and/or expression or any other characteristic protected by law in every location in which we have facilities national or local.

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