Chip Millican
Strategic Sourcing Director @ Rogers Corporation
United States
Kingsport
Consumer Goods
Chemical Engineering, Coatings, International Sales, Chemical Industry, Market Development, New Business Development, Organic Chemistry, Plastics, Polymers, Process Engineering, Procurement, Six Sigma, Strategic Planning, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Resin, Manufacturing, Product Development, Management, Business Development, Purchasing Processes
Experience

Manager, Alternate Methods of Supply
Kingsport, TN
Understand current/future business needs and proactively provide commercial solutions (typically contract manufacturing) to business/technology partners. Key Accomplishments: • Built and institutionalized the knowledge to enable scale-up and external manufacturing capabilities that are needed to support EMN’s growth as a specialty chemical company. • Oversaw the sourcing of core intermediate during unplanned extended plant outage in 2017. Sourced 100s of millions of pounds of intermediates and provided key leadership to the cross-functional team that was responsible for reversing the entire supply chain quickly at the start of the incident and reversing it once again as operations were restored. • Finalized key co-producer deal and led the cross-company steering team to develop implementation team. • Supported Corporate Growth Programs by developing 3rd party manufacturing strategies for top corporate growth initiatives

Global Business Manager, Organic Intermediates
• Developed unique expertise in EMN’s Organic Intermediates BU, a truly global business unit with a complex mix of products and markets: >35 Products that are intermediates or derivatives of core Eastman products serving the Fine Chemical Industry and attractive end markets (Food, Feed, Ag Int, Pharma, Flavors & Fragrances). • Responsible for P&L of this $200M/yr business

Procurement Manager
o Responsible for electricity purchases at Eastman's NAR sites: Three large integrated sites: Longview, TX; Columbia, SC; Kingsport, TN; other NA sites - Chestertown MD, Jefferson PA, Tyler TX (over 1.5k GWh; $60M) o Working with network of other industrial energy users, negotiated rate cases with utilities - Ex: SCE&G and SWEPCO cases totaling $950M system wide.

Business Unit Manager - Cogen
Responsible for P&L of ~$40M Electricity Business Unit (external sales of excess electricity). Led Business Team – external sales and EMN-TX site electricity and steam requirements. Drove several improvement projects resulting in improved earnings.

Special Projects Manager - Specialty Plastics Business Organization
• Led Product/Customer Transition Team – This team was responsible for transitioning customers from product manufacturing change that involved site, technology, and chemistry changes. This project involved commercializing all the new products (Ex: legal, safety, technology reviews), developing the manufacturing and sales specifications for the products, developing and executing: the communication plan ( >175 customers involved), the internal qualifications, and external testing with key customers • Led the Copolyester Business Intelligence team – this team is responsible for monitoring competitive activity by compiling information from sales representatives in all regions and drawing key takeaways as an input to business strategy development
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