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 three 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 supporting the Purchasing - Americas Division located in The Woodlands, Texas . This position will report to the Vice President, Global Purchasing & Logistics .

Nature and Scope :

The Senior Director for the Americas Purchasing Team has responsibility for all purchasing (feedstocks, raw materials, goods, services and MRO and other areas of spend in the Americas region).

The diversified portfolio of material, items and services purchased by this organization requires the jobholder to acquire and maintain a very wide and deep understanding of all spend / purchasing areas of the diversified businesses within Huntsman.

The team is set to achieve maximum benefit from global leverage and synergies in terms of cost efficiencies, service and expertise.

The jobholder must have a comprehensive knowledge of each of the business’s strategies and key drivers. Significant additional value created by Purchasing is more and more often created through the knowledge of how to extract value throughout vertical and horizontal integrated supply chains, including those of our suppliers, serving all Huntsman businesses.

Supply interruptions and variations in product quality have a major impact on the Huntsman consuming plant production rates and margins. Procurement decisions and use of our own commercial leverage therefore must balance low cost objectives with requirements to minimize quantitative and qualitative risks to the business. Business value remains the overriding objective requiring a detailed understanding of the consuming sites economic drivers and risks.

Purpose :

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.

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, Toll Manufacturing 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.

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.

In summary, as the Senior Director Procurement, you will :

Develop Vision & Strategy

• Provide leadership and management to the organization to develop and deliver a Vision and Strategy which enhances continuous improvement in all aspects of professional commercial purchasing processes as well as excellence in several key management competencies and processes.

Operate Organization as ‘Integral part of all Huntsman businesses

Spend categories

Jobholders role for all spend categories :

Value delivery – Cost Down.

Business development & Acquisitions

Business Process development

Organizational development

Compliance and Ethics

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.

Minimum Qualifications

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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