Head of Purchasing and Supply Chain - GM Energy

General Motors • Warren, MI

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Leader, you will be responsible for managing the overall procurement activities, execution of sourcing strategy, contract execution, supply chain excellence, and attaining budget. You will provide vision and guidance to the team for successful execution of GM Energy strategy related to purchasing, partnerships, and end-to-end Supply Chain. You will envision and lead the development of new products, processes, standards, or operational plans. You will be a key leader in supporting and executing the organization's business strategies with a direct impact on business and function overall results. Hybrid: This position is located in Warren, MI & requires an employee to be onsite a minimum of 3 times per week.

Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years relevant experience
• Experience in automotive, energy, or electrical industry
• Experience in people leadership of medium to large teams and a desire to help others shine.
• You stay calm under pressure, move fast, and are passionate about what you do.
• Excellent judgment — you know how to plan to avoid a crisis and when to escalate issues.
• Ability to develop relationships and influence executives.
• Demonstrated ability to understand, negotiate, and execute contracts and comprehend legal implications to both parties.

Nice To Haves

• Ideally you have experience navigating a complex organization and a start-up culture.
• A passion for innovation and continuous improvement and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities and requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and vision for GM Energy’s procurement, partnerships, and end-to-end supply chain and execute plans, ensure compliance, and deliver on KPI’s to GM Energy Leadership.
• Lead a team of managers and team members to drive strategy aligned with GM Energy goals and objectives, communicating a clear vision that inspires and empowers team to execute while simultaneously providing guidance, mentorship, and support to drive upskilled performance and career development.
• Build and maintain internal relationships by fostering connections beyond the immediate team, effectively bridging gaps and integrating diverse perspectives to drive collective success while understanding functional team needs.
• Manage supplier and partnership relationships with an eye on identifying and executing innovation opportunities, cost savings, and resolving commercial and supply chain issues.
• Optimize and drive operational plans and forecast to achieve inventory, order, and forecasting metrics and understand complex supply chain challenges to prevent customer impacts.
• Foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, balancing of team capability, and identification and problem-solving of gaps.
• Lead with influence and identify opportunities to drive impactful changes in GM Energy that create value for the business and our customers.
• Oversee the day-to-day forecasting, planning, management, contract negotiation, sourcing, and partnership recommendations and implementation of all projects and strategies to reach overall GM Energy targets.
• Monitor and remain current on electric vehicle, energy, and V2X industry trends as well as the latest supply chain and partnership trends and channel knowledge to both decision making and further educating team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees