Usman Mushtaq currently serves as the Supply Chain Director at Sadara Chemical Company (Sadara). He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company’s supply chain operations, including site wide planning & scheduling, inventory management, and logistics.
Usman joined Sadara in 2015 as the Production Scheduling Manager, bringing with him a wealth of experience in operations and supply chain management. In that role, he oversaw the setting up of an organizational structure for production scheduling, work processes and disciplines to effectively execute the business strategy for Sadara.
He also led the commissioning activities, which involved rigorous testing of systems and processes and established a command center structure, enabling the successful start-up of assets. Usman took over the role of the Supply Chain Director in 2018. Under his leadership, the department achieved many milestones, which include the successful completion of Creditor Reliability Test, Authorized Economic Operator certification, asset intervention strategy development and execution during the COIVD-19 pandemic, capacity expansion at Liquids Handling Center, expansion of sales in the Middle East Market.
He began his career with LyondellBasell, one of the largest plastics, chemicals, and refining companies in the world, serving as the process engineer in a facility located at Lake Charles in Louisiana.
After a year-long association with LyondellBasell, Usman moved to BASF, the world’s leading chemical company, where he worked for more than 11 years in various capacities. He was the BASF’s Global Supply Chain Manager before joining Sadara.
Usman holds a master’s degree and bachelor’s in chemical engineering from McNeese State University, Louisiana from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, respectively.