Director, Integrated Business Optimization

Date Posted: October 20, 2026
Reports To: VP, Global Gas
Location: Houston, TX

The Director, Integrated Business Optimization is a new role within the Corporate Development Team, created to help lead Methanex’s Integrated Sales & Supply Chain Optimization (IS&SO) initiative and to drive the sophistication of the company’s integrated decision making in order to maximize free cash flow (FCF) generation. Reporting to the VP, Global Gas, the incumbent acts as the Corporate Development lead on the IS&SO team, partnering closely with Marketing & Logistics (M&L) Commercial and Supply Chain leadership, Corporate Finance, Manufacturing and Regional Gas teams to build and embed a central, integrated optimization capability that evaluates the complex trade-offs across sales allocation, sourcing, production flexibility, logistics cost exposure and gas implications, tested against a counterfactual model.

The incumbent is primarily responsible for:

• Driving the design and implementation of the IS&SO operating model, governance and interfaces with existing planning processes, including the Navigate supply chain planning project and the Corporate Finance free-cash-flow model.
• Leading the development of a corporate FCF optimization engine tied to the corporate data sources.
• Acting as a “Trusted Advisor” and “Thought Partner” to M&L Commercial, M&L Supply Chain, Corporate Finance, Manufacturing and Regional Gas leaders in order to standardize processes for analyzing complex, cross-functional trade-offs.
• Supporting the Tactical Planning Optimization cycle (rolling 90-day to 12-month horizon) and the Strategic/Annual Planning Optimization cycle (1-3 year horizon), including scenario development, KPI review and recommendation development for senior stakeholders.
• Building organizational capability to anticipate, model and act on enterprise value drivers, tying commercial, operational and financial decisions to free cash flow outcomes.

As a key contributor to the IS&SO team and a key senior leader of Methanex’s Corporate Development team, the incumbent works under the guidance of the VP, Global Gas alongside the M&L Business Performance Director and other functional leaders to advance the team through its Discovery, Model Development and Steady State phases, ultimately embedding durable optimization capability within the organization.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
RESULTS/DELIVERABLES

• Lead the design, development and maintenance of the corporate FCF optimization engine.
• Develop the basin-balance trade-off / counterfactual models to evaluate marginal sales, sourcing and production decisions.
• Define data requirements and align the scope of the optimization model with the Navigate supply chain planning tools.
• Document end-state integrated business processes, governance and decision rights between GMLT, IS&SO, M&L, and Regional Gas/Manufacturing teams.

• Support the Monthly Integrated Business Review process during implementation: assess market dynamics, regional supply/demand balances and sourcing plans/gaps over a rolling 3-12 month horizon; run scenarios through the optimization engine to maximize FCF.
• Support the Strategic/Annual Planning cycle during implementation: evaluate sales/sourcing scenarios and portfolio trade-offs (1-3 years), including the value of marginal sales, to inform the annual plan.
• Value flexible production adjustments (run-rate changes, curtailment, gas resale, CO2 injection) and tactical sales/production trade-offs, using tailored tools as appropriate.
• Track and report enterprise KPIs aligned with the ELT Performance roadmap, in…