Supply Chain Leader, Color Materials, Americas

About the role

Sun Chemical, a member of the DIC Group, is a leading producer of various industries' solutions. As a Supply Chain Leader, you will oversee end-to-end supply chain execution across the Americas, ensuring alignment between demand inputs, supply plans, inventory targets, and logistics performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead supply planning and S&OP execution across the Americas, ensuring demand and supply alignment and operational feasibility.
• Review and validate demand forecasts provided by the Demand Planning team to confirm they are accurate and actionable, ensuring a reliable foundation for downstream supply planning activities.
• Manage a regional team of supply planners and an operational logistics leader, with responsibility for coaching, performance management, and ensuring consistent execution across multiple sites.
• Own escalation governance for supply chain execution; set priorities, align stakeholders, and drive issues to closure.
• Set/manage inventory targets by plant; identify gaps and drive corrective actions to meet budget, inventory, and service goals.
• Own OTIF performance, backlog management, and root-cause resolution of service failures.
• Oversee logistics and transportation execution, including warehousing and provider performance, ensuring service and cost targets are met.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Americas supply chain execution and operational logistics team; reinforce accountability and escalation discipline.
• Drive weekly and monthly execution reviews, integrating real-time performance into S&OP and KPI management.
• Ensure systemic issues are identified, escalated appropriately, and resolved through root-cause elimination.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of progressive experience in supply chain, logistics, or operations (chemical/coatings/manufacturing preferred)
• Leadership experience managing multi-site or cross-functional teams
• Strong SAP experience (ECC or S/4HANA; MM, WM, PP, SD modules)
• Demonstrated success in inventory optimization, material flow, and distribution network performance
• Experience managing 3PL/4PL partners and logistics execution
• Knowledge of chemical regulatory logistics (dangerous goods, compliance)
• Proven ability to drive execution, lead teams, and influence stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree (MBA or MSc in Supply Chain/Operations)
• APICS/ASCM CPIM or CSCP, CIPS, or similar certification
• Kinaxis experience
• Demand planning and forecasting experience
• Lean/Six Sigma training (Green Belt or higher)
• Project management training (PMP, Prince2)