Director, Indirect Supply Chain Transformation

Ford Motor Company • 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 accountable for delivering measurable value through improved transparency, standardization, automation, and execution discipline, and for advancing indirect savings while improving organizational effectiveness and scalability.

The position will lead the global indirect performance management system, owning enterprise KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, executive reporting, performance indicators, operating plans, and business reviews. It will build and institutionalize global standard work, governance, controls, playbooks, and operating procedures; lead continuous improvement; and develop and execute the Indirect Supply Chain transformation roadmap, including opportunities involving automation, digitization, AI, analytics, and digital sourcing solutions.

The Director will partner with category teams on savings and productivity, establish consistent global value-capture methodologies, and lead Indirect Program Management for major industrial programs—including batteries, powertrains, and vehicles. The role will integrate indirect requirements into program timing, sourcing strategies, budgets, and launch plans, ensuring facilities, equipment, supplies, and services are available to meet milestones and production readiness targets. It will also establish a global leadership operating rhythm, coordinate priorities and resources, lead governance and executive forums, and develop organizational capabilities, training, and knowledge management.

This is a leadership level 4 position. Ford describes its workplace offering as including a range of benefits and paid time off. Visa sponsorship is not available; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

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, executive presentation, and organizational leadership skills.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

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 covering savings, sourcing excellence, operational efficiency, resilience, and people performance.
• Translate business objectives into measurable initiatives and annual operating plans, lead monthly, quarterly, and annual executive business reviews, and drive accountability for targets across indirect teams.
• Develop global standard work, governance frameworks, playbooks, procedures, and controls for the indirect supply chain.
• 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 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 work.
• Lead the deployment of AI, analytics, and digital sourcing solutions and implement enterprise 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, and improve transparency across sourcing pipelines, market testing, control towers, compliance, and spend management.
• Benchmark internal and external performance, develop productivity and resource utilization metrics, and ensure consistent global 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, 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, and strategic planning processes; drive capability development, training, and knowledge management.
• Build future-state organizational capabilities and promote 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.
• 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