Director, Indirect Supply Chain Transformation

We are seeking a Director, Indirect Supply Chain Transformation to lead a team and partner with global category leaders, regional teams, finance, operations, technology, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable value through improved transparency, standardization, automation, and execution discipline.

The successful candidate will play a critical role in unlocking the next generation of indirect savings while improving organisational effectiveness and scalability. The Director will also direct Indirect Program Management for major industrial programs, ensuring required facilities, equipment, supplies, and services are sourced on time and at or below established cost targets.

Responsibilities

Strategy & Business Performance

• Lead the global indirect performance management system.
• Own enterprise KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, and executive reporting.
• Establish leading and lagging indicators to measure savings, sourcing excellence, operational efficiency, resilience, and people performance.
• Translate business objectives into measurable initiatives and annual operating plans.
• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual business reviews with executive leadership.
• Drive accountability for target attainment across all indirect teams.

Process Excellence & Standardization

• Develop and institutionalize global standard work across indirect supply chain.
• Establish governance frameworks, playbooks, operating procedures, and controls.
• Eliminate process variation across regions and categories.
• Create scalable operating models that improve consistency, quality, and speed.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean and process optimization methods.
• Develop service level agreements and performance standards for critical processes.

Transformation & Value Creation

• Build and execute the Indirect Supply Chain transformation roadmap.
• Identify opportunities to simplify work, automate activities, and digitize workflows.
• Lead deployment of AI, analytics, and digital sourcing solutions.
• Implement enterprise-wide programs that improve savings capture, sourcing effectiveness, and operational productivity.
• Establish mechanisms to quantify value realization and business impact.
• Drive organisational change management and capability adoption.

Savings & Productivity Leadership

• Partner with category teams to identify and unlock incremental savings opportunities.
• Create transparency to sourcing pipelines, market testing, control towers, compliance, and spend management activities.
• Benchmark internal and external performance to identify improvement opportunities.
• Develop productivity frameworks and resource utilization metrics.
• Ensure savings reporting and value capture methodologies are consistent globally.

Industrial Program Management

• Lead Indirect Program Management for major industrial programs, including batteries, powertrains, and vehicles.
• Integrate Indirect Supply Chain requirements into program timing, sourcing strategies, budgets, and launch plans.
• Ensure facilities, equipment, supplies, and services are sourced and available to support program milestones and production readiness.
• Drive cross-functional issue resolution, supplier readiness, and execution against timing, cost, quality, and risk targets.
• Maintain visibility to program sourcing status, cost performance, risks, owners, and recovery actions.
• Deliver program requirements on time and at or below established cost targets.

Organisational Effectiveness

• Establish a global operating rhythm for indirect supply chain leadership.
• Coordinate priorities and resources across regions and categories.
• Lead governance forums, executive reviews, and strategic planning processes.
• Drive capability development, training, and knowledge management.
• Create a culture of accountability, transparency, and data-driven decision making.
• Build future-state organisational capabilities required for a world-class indirect supply chain organisation.

Qualifications

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Proven leadership experience in supply chain, procurement, business operations, or transformation.
• Experience leading Indirect procurement for categories such as IT, Marketing & Sales, Professional Services, Facilities, Transportation and / Equipment.
• Deep expertise in performance management, process excellence, and governance.
• Strong analytical and financial acumen with a track record of delivering measurable business results.
• Experience leading large-scale operational and digital transformations.
• Ability to influence senior executives and drive change across global organisations.
• Demonstrated capability building scalable systems, standard work, and operating models.
• Strong communication, executive presentation, and organisational leadership skills.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance, operations, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in supply chain, procurement, business operations, program management, or enterprise transformation.
• Experience across multiple indirect categories, such as IT, marketing and sales, professional services, facilities, transportation, manufacturing equipment, or maintenance, repair, and operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams and complex, cross-functional initiatives in a global or large-scale organisation.
• Proven experience developing and managing performance metrics, governance processes, operating rhythms, and executive reporting.
• Track record of delivering measurable cost savings, productivity improvements, process standardisation, or transformation outcomes.
• Experience influencing senior leaders and aligning stakeholders across functions, regions, and business units.
• Strong analytical, financial, communication, and executive presentation skills.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.