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Dow has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Senior Site Logistics Leader, located in Bahia Blanca (Argentina)
About you and this role
You will have overall responsibility and accountability for the plant logistics assets, personnel and achievement of the plant related business goals. The role delivers plant based business and administrative leadership to an empowered, work process driven, plant logistics organization. The Senior Site Logistics Leader serves in a vital role for Logistics, utilizing process knowledge, technical expertise, and logistics and/or operations experience to troubleshoot and correct process or equipment issues, which improves performance and reliability for multiple transportation modes, as well as assist, teach and coach plant personnel. Works with key partners to optimize operations on a regular basis. Assists business/functional clients by leading/participating in improvement initiatives and supporting crisis management. This role requires full proficiency in a range of technical, operational, and processes or procedures through job-related training and considerable on the job experience.
In this role, you will lead one or more teams of professionals and/or first-line leaders of operational support employees. You will need to have knowledge of the business operations of your discipline or functional area. You will need to fully understand these business operations and how teams work together to achieve operational objectives. You should be able to guide and persuade others, both internally and externally, to adopt a different point of view.
It is your responsibility to be able to identify technical and operational problems and recognize and understand broader impacts across multiple teams within your discipline or functional area. You will need to be able to lead one or more similar teams of professional individual contributors within your discipline. You also may lead teams of technical operations, business operations, or operational support employees who may or may not have supervisors. You will set priorities and allocate resources to align with business objectives and plans of execution. Your work is guided by policies and departmental plan and your performance impacts your team’s ability to achieve service, quality, and timeliness of objectives.
Responsibilities:
Provides leadership and support through daily actions, coaching and guidance to the plant logistics team and individuals
Translates and communicates the business strategy and objectives to the plant personnel
Provides coaching and expectations for the personnel participating in the plant goal and budget setting process
Challenges teams and individuals to set, monitor and achieve goals aligned to the business and site strategies and goals
Ensures implementation and ongoing effectiveness of global work processes, operating discipline, management systems, enabling technologies and roles
Ensures necessary resources are in place to meet site logistics requirements and achieve the plant specific business goals
Ensures that systems are in place to meet the customer requirements for packaging and shipping of products
Provides administrative leadership and coaching to site logistics personnel. (i.e. role clarity, expectations, compensation, employee development, deployment, recognition systems, etc.)
Utilizes logistics and/or operations knowledge, technical expertise, and experience to assist in correcting process or equipment issues which improve process performance and reliability
Adds value to logistics work processes by participating in process business/functional improvement efforts
Performs or assists in process related root cause or failure analysis and leverages and communicates the results to operate site logistics personnel for learning purposes
Qualifications
Required education: Bachelor Degree, preferably in Supply Chain Management, Engineering or related other Sciences;
5+ years of experience in a Supply Chain and Manufacturing Environment including people leadership experience;
Critical success factors for this role include:
People management Experience;
Fluent English Level.
Your Skills:
Logistics Operations;
Performance Management (PM);
Agile Methodology;
Operation Risk Management;
Business Management;
Supply Chain Operations;
Strategic Planning;
Strategic Leadership;
Organizational Leadership;
Customer Service.
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Benefits – What Dow offers you
We invest in you.
Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.
Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)
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About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com.
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.
