Scheduling Specialist for Consumer Solutions

**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?

Dow has a great opportunity as **Scheduling Specialist for Consumer Solutions **based in **São Paulo(BRA).** Decides what, when and where to supply for multiple production sites or multiple plants at one site, within a single business or multiple smaller businesses. Balances supply and demand over the operational horizon, to achieve optimum product availability, asset utilization and supply chain efficiencies.

**Responsibilities / Duties**
- Generates a time-phased supply schedule to fulfill business requirements in the short-term, while considering plant wide constraints, and meeting inventory and customer service targets.
- Determines and/or executes the most effective regional or global sourcing rules.
- Where applicable, implements external manufacturing agreements or executes agreements already in place.
- Owns and operates site or regional planning models (provides functional expertise for model operation; assures most efficient use of information technology).
- Serves as a local site coordinator/planner for integration of internal demand, utilities or environmental operations at a particular location.
- Routinely checks and tracks inventory quantity, slow-moving or other inventory statuses and ensures that inventory volumes meet the plan.
- Identifies, prioritizes and addresses supply issues (e.g. short-term capacity constraints, product shortage, emergency customer order received, uncovered production requirement, etc.)
- Leads collaboration with customer service, manufacturing, logistics, third-party service providers and business partners to meet business obligations in case of unplanned events.
- Ensures proper maintenance of production parameters (material masters, work centers, routings) to ensure effective planning.
- Follows best practices, procedures and governance over master data.
- Supports global supply chain initiatives by interfacing with other supply chain personnel in the business and shared services.
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree
- Intermediate English
- Intermediate Spanish - desirable
**Your skills, knowledge, and abilities include**:

- Soft Skills: Problem-solving, teamwork, analytical thinking, initiative and communications, collaborate for superior results.
- Experience with SAP
**Additional notes**:

- No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position
- Domestic relocation support is not available.
- International relocation support is not available.
- We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations if you qualify as a person with disabilities.
- Please do not forget to attach your resume.

Ofertas da Dow:

- Um programa robusto de recompensas totais, incluindo: remuneração base competitiva, remuneração variável que recompensa o desempenho individual, da equipe e da empresa e benefícios abrangentes
- Oportunidades de aprendizagem contínuas dentro de um ambiente de trabalho diversificado, inclusivo e recompensador
- Experiências de carreira que podem abranger diferentes negócios e funções da Dow com oportunidades de crescimento pessoal e profissional
- A chance de trabalhar em uma empresa global e interagir com colegas de todo o mundo
- Oportunidades que despertam sua imaginação e acendem sua paixão para ajudar os outros
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