Director, Supply Chain Transformation

The opportunity

A global industrial manufacturing organization is seeking a supply chain leader to drive transformation across multiple businesses. The role combines strategic direction with practical execution, improving cost, supplier performance, operational effectiveness and working capital.

Working with business leaders and corporate supply chain teams, you will identify opportunities for improvement, establish priorities and lead initiatives that deliver measurable results. You will need to influence across a decentralized organization, introducing consistent practices where they add value while retaining the flexibility individual businesses require.

Key responsibilities

• Develop a divisional supply chain roadmap aligned with growth, profitability and working capital objectives. Assess capabilities, identify performance gaps and risks, and translate priorities into actionable improvement plans.
• Align business-level sourcing activity with corporate commodity strategies. Strengthen supplier management through segmentation, performance reviews, governance and escalation processes.
• Lead supplier consolidation and rationalization opportunities. Improve quality, delivery and total cost while strengthening continuity of supply and managing risk.
• Identify opportunities to leverage purchasing scale, sourcing capabilities and logistics across businesses. Build business cases, agree measurable targets and coordinate implementation across functions.
• Establish performance measures and reporting that make progress and accountability clear. Partner with operating teams to improve forecasting, planning, inventory, lead times and on-time delivery, connecting improvements to cash generation and working capital.
• Identify and implement practical applications of AI to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality and cost performance. Critically evaluate outputs, scale successful applications and incorporate them into everyday processes.
• Lead change across business and functional teams. Secure stakeholder alignment, resolve barriers and build accountability for sustained results.
• Develop training, practical guidance and management routines that strengthen supply chain capability and support consistent adoption of effective tools and processes.

Experience and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain, operations or a related discipline. A master’s degree is preferred.
• At least 10 years of supply chain or operations leadership experience within industrial manufacturing.
• Demonstrated success delivering transformation across multiple sites or at divisional level.
• Strong experience in sourcing, supplier management and cost reduction.
• A track record of measurable financial and operational improvement.
• Ability and willingness to use AI tools effectively, identify appropriate applications and critically assess their outputs.
• Strong analytical capability, structured problem-solving and commercial judgment.
• Clear communication and the ability to influence senior leaders.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to approximately 50%.