Isc Improvement Specialist

**Our purpose**

Join a team that’s passionate about partnership. With careers at Dow, we take time to explore questions and talk to each other. We love to learn. Our people are driven by limitless curiosity.

We are an innovative, customer centric, inclusive, and sustainable materials science company.
- Employing 36,500 individuals
- Across 109 manufacturing sites
- In over 31 countries

Our portfolio of products and solutions include:

- Plastics: With new technology trends, our plastic additives can be experienced in many everyday items including vinyl, blow-molding bottles, film, rigid containers, PVC plastics, siding, decks and rails, foam pipes and profile formulations, window frames and high-efficiency lubricants.
- Industrial intermediates: As the product of a reaction that is beneficial when used as a precursor chemical for another product, industrial intermediates can take on many shapes and forms. Ours are used in home comfort and appliance, building and construction, adhesives and lubricants, and more.
- Coatings: Whether it’s a water-based coating or solvent-based coating, a thin film is deposited on materials to enhance specific properties such as enhanced performance, durability, aesthetics, and sustainability.We make diversity and inclusion a priority—because sharing our perspectives and building on each other’s ideas will drive innovation. Could you imagine yourself in a place like this?

**ISC Improvement Specialist**

Dow has a great opportunity as **ISC Improvement Specialist** based in **São Paulo (BRA)**, that support business growth, service enhancements, and cost to serve productivity gains by identifying and implementing, through project work, supply chain and end-to-end (E2E) improvements to a single business, multiple businesses or an envelope. Interacts with global or other regional teams, when needed. Focuses on E2E design to enable a business in the region and to support the business expansion into new markets, and on re-designing /optimizing existing supply chains networks or other functional structures in the E2E space for the business. Maximizes business value growth, economic profit, cash flow and customer service through improvements in supply chain costs, capital investment, asset utilization, productivity and quality. Requires broadened conceptual and working knowledge and experience in job discipline to perform a range of work assignments. Uses prescribed guidelines or policies in analyzing situations and receives a moderate level of guidance and direction. Provides informal guidance to new team members. Analyzes possible solutions using technical experience, judgment and precedents to solve problems.

**Responsibilities / Duties**
- Supports the design and optimization of supply chains through the use of optimization tools (linear programming, spreadsheet analysis) and tests supply chain design scenarios, process variability and trade-offs through modeling techniques (simulation).
- Identifies, assesses and optimizes the material flow and risk trade-offs across the supply chain at a tactical or strategic level (inventory, purchasing costs, production costs, logistics costs, product quality, asset utilization, productivity and customer service).
- Optimizes or designs supply chain infrastructures (distribution networks, plant locations, outsourcing) as well as technologies (distribution equipment, packaging materials and packaging equipment design).
- Participates on supply chain strategy development, including customer/product mix analysis, customer/product segmentation, channels-to-market, capital investment, and sourcing decisions.
- Supports Business Growth initiatives by designing and implementing key E2E & Supply Chain Capabilities according to business requirements.
- Builds new capabilities models and implements solutions to enable business growth initiatives - like new logistics capabilities (tanks, warehouses, blends, etc.) - while interacting and leading cross-functional teams.
- Drives E2E service improvements and customer satisfaction interacting with SME’s and Quality to address complaint trends and key customer requirements.
- Identifies and leads Cost to Serve and Productivity improvement projects across the E2E chain to deliver competitiveness to the business.
- Identifies and assists in the implementation of optimum inventory levels that balance costs with business strategic initiatives.
- Optimizes the development of supply chain work processes, business rules, and establishes metrics in the areas of forecasting/demand planning, production planning, inventory management, order fulfillment and the S&OP process.
- Interacts with other E2E Improvement Specialists to align on key cross business or leveraged projects.
- Provides support and expertise in supply chain operations technology (distribution equipment, packaging materials, and packaging equipment design).
**Required Experience**
- Experience: 3-6 years of experience in a Supply Chain o