Global Supply Chain Center of Excellence Director

Are you the kind of person who is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Do you need to understand how things work—and then find ways to make them work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious problem solver who enjoys working 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 Global Supply Chain Center of Excellence Director to join our Ashland Industries Europe GmbH business at our Schaffhausen, Switzerland site. Reporting to the SVP, Operations, this highly visible enterprise role will lead formal supply chain planning and optimization and own the continuous improvement of Ashland’s global warehouse and distribution network. The Director will partner with business-unit, regional commercial managers, manufacturing, procurement, finance, quality/regulatory, customer service, technology, and SAP leaders to optimize end-to-end flow, service, inventory, capacity, and cost across all geographies.

The role sits at the center of a global operating model supporting approximately 16-17 manufacturing sites, multiple strategic business units, regional distribution networks, and regulated and non-regulated operations.

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

• Lead the global planning and optimization agenda across demand, supply, capacity, production, inventory, deployment, distribution, customer service, and working capital.
• Design and implement enterprise S&OP/S&OE governance, including process cadence, decision rights, RACI, escalation thresholds, executive trade-offs, and accountability by strategic business unit.
• Own and improve the global warehouse and distribution network, including network design, footprint and flow optimization, 3PL governance, warehouse standards, ocean freight, land transportation, carrier performance, and indent-sales execution.
• Govern demand planning, forecast accuracy and bias, supply and deployment planning, production balancing, inventory targets, and planning integration across Arkieva and SAP.
• Develop customer-classification and service-level models that segment service promises, inventory policies, safety-stock parameters, allocation rules, lead times, and cost-to-serve.
• Lead SAP S/4
  
  HANA supply chain readiness and adoption, including master-data governance, planning design, process templates, controls, analytics, and KPI standards.
• Set and manage performance through OTIF/OTS, forecast accuracy and bias, plan adherence, inventory health, working capital, logistics cost, warehouse productivity, freight reliability, and service scorecards.
• Build global capability, standard work, and a continuous-improvement pipeline; act as the enterprise authority for supply chain governance and network optimization.

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

• 15+ years of progressive leadership in supply chain planning, S&OP/IBP, logistics, warehousing, distribution, inventory management, manufacturing planning.
• 7+ years leading global supply chain organizations, ( planning and distribution) cross-functional teams in a specialty chemical environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Chemistry, or a related discipline; MBA or relevant Master's degree preferred.
• APICS CPIM/CSCP, Lean Six Sigma, or program-management certification preferred.
• Required direct experience leading, improving, and optimizing a global warehouse and distribution network spanning the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific,…