Regional Demand Team Lead

About the role

Huntsman is seeking a Regional Demand Team Lead for its Advanced Materials (AdMat) division, reporting to the Regional Demand Manager. The role owns the demand plan for a region across a 3- to 24-month horizon (IBP) and a 0- to 3-month horizon (S&OE), coordinating commercial and marketing input and communicating with supply planning, operations and the commercial teams.

Key responsibilities

• Demand planning: own the demand plan for the region at SKU/customer level, gather internal and external signals, challenge sales forecasts with the commercial team and communicate changes to supply planning, operations and marketing.
• IBP: run monthly prep-meetings with sales and marketing, coordinate and challenge their inputs, review assumptions, assess risks and opportunities, consider constrained supply and lead the pre-DR meeting.
• Team management: ensure demand planners cover their markets and guide them on tasks and information from stakeholders and monthly meetings.
• Support marketing in portfolio rationalization and act as a reference point for other regions' demand planners.

Required profile

• Unrestricted right to work in the United States.
• Master's degree or equivalent in Supply Chain, Business or Engineering.
• Proven track record in demand planning / forecasting and 5 years of professional experience, ideally in chemicals.
• Fluent in English; French and German are a plus.

Required skills

• APICS or SCOR experience and SC knowledge required.
• High proficiency in SAP, Excel and PowerBI.
• Preferred: SAP/ERP process knowledge and deep knowledge of S&OP or IBP processes.