Executive Director, Indirect Purchasing-Americas

Tenneco is one of the world’s leading designer, manufacturers and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers, with approximately 78.000 team members working at more than 300 sites worldwide. Through our four business groups, Motorparts, Ride Performance, Clean Air and Powertrain, Tenneco is driving advancements in global mobility by delivering technology solutions for diversified global markets, including light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway, industrial, motorsport and the aftermarket.

Responsibilities:

• This position is responsible for leading value generation, sourcing, and profitability improvement initiatives to optimize indirect spend across 30 facilities in Americas region.
• Lead Indirect Purchasing team
• Execute following purchasing processes to drive optimized Indirect spend:
  • Category/Commodity Strategy

• Work with corporate, business unit, and regional stakeholders to execute high-value process improvement and sourcing initiatives.
• Serve as a full partner to the business in evaluating and challenging the status quo to surface value opportunities.
• Lead the aggregation, normalization, and analysis of spend data to identify potential value opportunities. 
• Researches and provides information on Industry category trends and best practices
• Sourcing and Contracting:
• Drive sourcing projects emerging from category planning.
• Define goals, including roles and responsibilities of stakeholders.
• Incorporate business requirements into sourcing plans and RFP strategies.
• Enhance competition by leveraging spend and qualified new suppliers.
• Coordinate and lead negotiations; help stakeholders understand trade‐offs and benefits of negotiation strategies/outcomes.
• Process Improvement:
• Identify and capture profit improvement opportunities beyond leveraged sourcing, e.g., demand management opportunities, insource versus outsource decisions, etc.
• Track and work with corporate finance to report results for identified projects and when applicable, work with other functions across company to replicate projects with positive results.
• Supplier Relationship Management:
• Foster performance-based supplier relationships to create short-term and long-term value for the company.
• Lead global business reviews with strategic suppliers to ensure performance against contracted obligations and business unit expectations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, or similar roles.  Prefer majority of Direct Material Experience.
• Previous leadership experience required.
• In-depth experience with world-class strategic sourcing and category management practices, including e-Sourcing.
• Self-confidence and clarity of expression to lead discussions with internal executive audiences, and challenge current practices.
• Able to work up, down, and across a large organization; connects at all levels, i.e., operations, management, executives.
• A flexible, dynamic, self-demanding and proactive individual; able to motivate him/herself and others; easily accepts constructive input from others.
• Willing to travel up to 25% of the time for business purpose.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.