Head of Supply Chain EMEA

☞ Solvay

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Update day: 26-11-2025

Location: Brussels Brussels Capital

Category: Production / Operation

Industry: Industrie

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General Information

Location:
  • City: Brussels
  • Country: Belgium
  • Region: Europe

Job Category:Supply Chain
Job Type:Regular
Type of Contract:Permanent
Working time:Full-time
Work schedule:Day shift
Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. With more than 24,100 employees in 64 countries, Solvay bonds people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress. The Group seeks to create sustainable shared value for all, notably through its Solvay One Planet plan crafted around three pillars: protecting the climate, preserving resources and fostering better life. The Group’s innovative solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices, health care applications, water and air purification systems. Founded in 1863, Solvay today ranks among the world’s top three companies for the vast majority of its activities and delivered net sales of €10.2 billion in 2019. Solvay is listed on Euronext Brussels (SOLB) and Paris and in the United States, where its shares (SOLVY) are traded through a Level I ADR program.

Solvay is a market leader in hydrogen peroxide, both in market share and technology. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is used mainly by the paper industry to bleach pulp. Its properties are also of interest to many markets, such as chemicals, food, textiles, and the environment.

Job Overview and Responsibilities

  • Drive the EMEA Supply Chain Team, Customer Services & Inside Sales Team for Solvay Peroxides (8 production sites, 1.000 customers, >35k deliveries a year)
  • Ensure on time and in full delivery, in full compliance with Solvay’s high safety standards
  • Ensure most profitable sourcing of customer orders and security of supply through continuous and robust S&OP process
  • Drive performance across the transport & warehouses network through close collaboration with main third party hauliers
  • Regularly review & challenge the way transport flows are organised, in order to optimise cost to serve
  • Identify and implement continuous improvements in the way of working, leveraging digitalisation, in order to increase customer satisfaction and profitability
  • Ensure fast & effective management of all customers requests & complaints
  • Drive collaboration with industrial, sales, finance & purchasing to ensure seamless customer experience and improve profitability
  • Lead, motivate, coach and develop a team of 24 FTE’s, ensure optimum knowledge management.

Education and Experience

Master degree in Supply Chain, Business Engineering or Chemical Engineering

  • University degree or equivalent experience in Business, Economics, Supply Chain management, Engineering or related fields.
  • At least 8 years of experience in Supply Chain
  • Minimum 3 years of successful experience in a management position.

Skills

  • Ability to think strategically and execute pragmatically


  • Executive presence, ability to energize people by creating a shared vision

  • Strong customer orientation, ability to understand how supply chain can create economic value for both customers and Solvay.

  • Strong collaboration mindset, ability to break silos and drive change outside of own perimeter

  • Fluent in English.

  • Resourceful, result driven, autonomous, problem solving, customer oriented, team leader, stress resistant.


German, French, Finnish or Portuguese knowledge is a plus

Additional Information

  • Knowledge of main Supply Chain Tools, understanding their input and output and how they interface with each others is a strong asset (SAP, CRM, Dynasys, TMS)

  • Knowledge of Supply Chain equipment (handling, transportation, packaging), characteristics and their instrumentation.
  • Project Management
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Deadline: 10-01-2026

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