Vice President - Supply Chain Management

• Set the global supply chain strategy and lead end-to-end planning, scheduling, and customer service in partnership with senior leaders across manufacturing, commercial, product, and global planning functions.
• Own delivery of enterprise performance commitments across service, inventory, working capital, cash flow, planning effectiveness, logistics cost, safety, and profitability.
• Provide executive ownership of Integrated Business Planning, driving disciplined demand and supply planning, production scheduling, forecast accuracy, and order-to-cash performance.
• Build a high-performing global organization by attracting, developing, and empowering senior talent while embedding clear accountability and standardized ways of working.
• Establish robust supply chain risk governance and lead mitigation of capacity, raw material, manufacturing, labor, and force majeure exposures.
• Shape long-range network, capacity, inventory, and production strategies that enable profitable growth, cost competitiveness, and cash optimization.
• Influence enterprise decisions through scenario modeling, fact-based trade-off analysis, and clear recommendations to executive leadership.
• Sponsor digital transformation across the supply chain, leveraging automation, analytics, and AI to strengthen agility, productivity, and decision quality.
• Champion operational discipline and ensure full compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, safety, and local requirements.
• Member of the global lubricants additives leadership team.

• Set the global supply chain strategy and lead end-to-end planning, scheduling, and customer service in partnership with senior leaders across manufacturing, commercial, product, and global planning functions.
• Own delivery of enterprise performance commitments across service, inventory, working capital, cash flow, planning effectiveness, logistics cost, safety, and profitability.
• Provide executive ownership of Integrated Business Planning, driving disciplined demand and supply planning, production scheduling, forecast accuracy, and order-to-cash performance.
• Build a high-performing global organization by attracting, developing, and empowering senior talent while embedding clear accountability and standardized ways of working.
• Establish robust supply chain risk governance and lead mitigation of capacity, raw material, manufacturing, labor, and force majeure exposures.
• Shape long-range network, capacity, inventory, and production strategies that enable profitable growth, cost competitiveness, and cash optimization.
• Influence enterprise decisions through scenario modeling, fact-based trade-off analysis, and clear recommendations to executive leadership.
• Sponsor digital transformation across the supply chain, leveraging automation, analytics, and AI to strengthen agility, productivity, and decision quality.
• Champion operational discipline and ensure full compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, safety, and local requirements.
• Member of the global lubricants additives leadership team.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management or Business, MBA or another relevant graduate degree preferred.
• Minimum of 15 years of progressive supply chain management experience in a leading organization, including significant leadership responsibility within complex, global supply chain and manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated command of end-to-end planning and execution, including Integrated Business Planning, demand and supply planning, production scheduling, inventory optimization, customer service, and network design.
• Proven success improving service, working capital, cost, resilience, and organizational transformation capability at scale.
• Strong experience in SAP-enabled manufacturing and planning environments; exposure to advanced planning platforms, analytics, automation, and AI is highly valued.
• Track record of building high-performing, geographically dispersed teams and developing senior supply chain talent.
• Exceptional commercial acumen, analytical judgment, executive communication, and ability to influence senior leaders through fact-based recommendations.
• APICS CPIM/CSCP, IBF, Lean Six Sigma, or comparable certification as benefit.
• This is a HYBRID role with an on-site presence required.

Location Fords

Employee Type Regular

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with about 12,000 employees in 32 countries. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of chemical…