Director, Indirect Supply Chain Transformation

Ford Motor • Dearborn, MI

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Director 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, while unlocking indirect savings and improving organizational effectiveness and scalability. The Director will also lead Indirect Program Management for major industrial programs, including batteries, powertrains, and vehicles, ensuring facilities, equipment, supplies, and services are sourced on time and at or below established cost targets.

The role leads global indirect performance management, including enterprise KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, executive reporting, business reviews, and accountability for targets. It establishes standard work, governance, playbooks, procedures, controls, service levels, and continuous improvement practices across regions and categories. The Director builds and executes the Indirect Supply Chain transformation roadmap, including simplification, automation, digitization, AI, analytics, digital sourcing, change management, and value-realization processes.

The position partners with category teams to identify savings, improve sourcing and spend transparency, benchmark performance, and standardize savings reporting. For industrial programs, it integrates indirect supply requirements into timing, sourcing strategies, budgets, and launch plans; manages supplier readiness and cross-functional issue resolution; and tracks cost, quality, risk, and schedule performance. The Director also establishes the global operating rhythm, coordinates priorities and resources, leads governance and strategic planning, develops organizational capabilities, and fosters accountability, transparency, and data-driven decision-making.

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 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.
• 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 organizations.
• Demonstrated capability in building scalable systems, standard work, and operating models.
• Strong organizational leadership skills.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States; employment eligibility will be verified at hire.

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, owning 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, and lead monthly, quarterly, and annual executive business reviews.
• Drive accountability for target attainment across indirect teams.
• Develop and institutionalize global standard work, governance frameworks, playbooks, operating procedures, and controls.
• Reduce 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, and establish service-level agreements and performance standards.
• Build and execute the Indirect Supply Chain transformation roadmap, identifying opportunities to simplify work, automate activities, and digitize workflows.
• Lead deployment of AI, analytics, and digital sourcing solutions and enterprise-wide programs that improve savings capture, sourcing effectiveness, and productivity.
• Establish mechanisms to quantify value realization and business impact, and drive organizational change management and capability adoption.
• Partner with category teams to identify and unlock incremental savings opportunities and improve transparency into sourcing pipelines, market testing, control towers, compliance, and spend management.
• Benchmark internal and external performance, develop productivity and resource-utilization frameworks, 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 for program milestones and production readiness.
• Drive cross-functional issue resolution and supplier readiness against timing, cost, quality, and risk targets.
• Maintain visibility into program sourcing status, cost performance, risks, owners, and recovery actions, delivering 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, strategic planning, capability development, training, and knowledge management.
• Build future-state organizational capabilities and a culture of accountability, transparency, and data-driven decision-making.

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.
• Established and active 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