Director, Indirect Supply Chain Transformation

Ford • Dearborn, MI

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Indirect Supply Chain Transformation will lead a team and partner with global category leaders, regional teams—with an initial focus on North America—finance, operations, technology, and business stakeholders. The role is responsible for delivering measurable value through improved transparency, standardization, automation, and execution discipline, and for advancing indirect savings while improving organizational effectiveness and scalability.

The Director will lead the global indirect performance management system, establish enterprise KPIs and operating governance, and translate business objectives into measurable initiatives. The role will develop and execute an indirect supply chain transformation roadmap, strengthen process consistency, drive continuous improvement, and lead the adoption of digital, analytics, automation, and AI solutions.

The position also directs Indirect Program Management for major industrial programs, including batteries, powertrains, and vehicles. It integrates indirect supply chain needs into program timing, sourcing strategies, budgets, and launch plans, ensuring facilities, equipment, supplies, and services are available on time and at or below established cost targets. The role builds organizational capabilities and promotes accountability, transparency, and data-driven decision making across a global organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance, operations, or a related field.
• At least 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 organization.
• Experience developing and managing performance metrics, governance processes, operating rhythms, and executive reporting.
• Track record of delivering measurable cost savings, productivity improvements, process standardization, or transformation outcomes.
• Experience influencing senior leaders and aligning stakeholders across functions, regions, and business units.
• Strong analytical, financial, communication, and executive presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in business administration, supply chain, engineering, finance, or a related field.
• 15 or more years of relevant experience, including leadership of global indirect procurement or supply chain transformation.
• Experience leading indirect sourcing and readiness for major industrial programs, including vehicle, powertrain, battery, facility, or manufacturing launches.
• Experience deploying digital procurement, analytics, automation, or artificial intelligence solutions at enterprise scale.
• Working knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement methods; relevant certification is preferred.
• Experience operating across regions and cultures and leading organizational change in a matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global indirect performance management system and own enterprise KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, and executive reporting.
• Establish leading and lagging indicators for 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 performance target attainment across indirect teams.
• Develop and institutionalize global standard work, governance frameworks, playbooks, operating procedures, and controls for indirect supply chain.
• Eliminate process variation across regions and categories and create scalable operating models that improve consistency, quality, and speed.
• Lead continuous improvement using Lean and process optimization methods; develop service level agreements and performance standards for critical processes.
• Build and execute the Indirect Supply Chain transformation roadmap, identifying opportunities to simplify, automate, and digitize workflows.
• Lead deployment of AI, analytics, and digital sourcing solutions and implement enterprise-wide programs to improve savings capture, sourcing effectiveness, and productivity.
• Establish mechanisms to quantify value realization and business impact; drive organizational change management and capability adoption.
• Partner with category teams to identify incremental savings opportunities and improve transparency across sourcing pipelines, market testing, control towers, compliance, and spend management.
• Benchmark internal and external performance, develop productivity frameworks and resource utilization metrics, and ensure globally consistent savings reporting and value capture methodologies.
• 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 into program sourcing status, cost performance, risks, owners, and recovery actions; deliver requirements on time and at or below established cost targets.
• Establish a global operating rhythm for indirect supply chain leadership and coordinate priorities and resources across regions and categories.
• Lead governance forums, executive reviews, and strategic planning processes; drive capability development, training, and knowledge management.
• Build a culture of accountability, transparency, and data-driven decision making, and develop future-state capabilities for a world-class indirect supply chain organization.

Benefits

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director