Global Lean Supply Chain Director

Global Lean Supply Chain Director

Tenneco is one of the world's leading designers, manufacturers, and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers. Through our DRiV, Performance Solutions, Clean Air, and Powertrain business groups, Tenneco is driving advancements in global mobility by delivering technology solutions for light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway, industrial, motorsport, and the aftermarket. In this role, you'll join a global team united by tenacious execution and a deep emotional allegiance to our mission. You'll be empowered to move fast, think big, and deliver lasting impact in a culture that values loyalty, courage, and high performance. Because this is a global role that requires regular travel, remote working is an option. Are you ready to drive what's next?

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lean Leader : You are the champ for the global Lean strategy for supply chain, influencing and aligning a network of CI Senior Managers and Lean Managers across ~130 plants in our Powertrain, Clean Air, and Champion Ignition businesses. Through coaching and discipline, you raise the technical level of Lean expertise worldwide.
• Lean Sensei : You are the recognized technical authority for Lean practices in the supply chain. From daily management, visual management, 5S, SMED, kaizen, and standard work, to structured problem-solving, value stream mapping, and connected flows, you guide teams with depth, clarity, and credibility.
• Value Stream Architect : You coach plants on how to map and improve the extended value stream end to end, from customers to suppliers, with a focus on performance. With your coaching and guidance, plants will succeed as they cross the Kaizen roadmap bridge from the current to the future value stream map. By reducing the value stream length and variability, you increase flexibility, lower inventory levels, improve logistics efficiency, and raise customer service levels.
• Shop Floor Champion : You focus on where the work happens, driving sustainable improvements in material handling, inventory flow, and daily disciplined execution. Safety is always the starting point and foundation of your work. You also design and deploy visual management systems that make performance visible and enable rapid response to abnormalities.
• P3 Tenneco Standard Integrator : You accelerate P3 maturity and lead MMOG LE assessments, ensuring Lean practices are codified, assessed, and embedded into the P3 Tenneco Standard (our operating system). You secure the sustainability of improvements by coordinating global tracking of initiatives, capturing benefits, and sharing best practices to lock in results.
• Regional CI Senior Managers and Plant CI / Lean Leaders : You will influence, coach, and challenge a large global community of Lean practitioners. By providing standards, technical depth, and hands-on training, you will raise their capability, discipline, and impact.
• Plant Operations Teams : You will guide them in applying Lean fundamentals on the shop floor; material handling, safety, visual management, and problem solving; embedding daily discipline and sustainable results.
• Regional Supply Chain Directors and Operations Leaders : You will integrate Lean and CI practices into broader supply chain and operations execution, ensuring value stream improvements translate into measurable business performance.
• Corporate Functions and P3 Tenneco Standard Team : You will align with Quality, Procurement, HR / Training, and the P3 team to ensure Lean practices are standardized, assessments are robust, and maturity is accelerated consistently across ~130 plants.
• Lean at Private Equity Speed : You will prove that Lean transformations, traditionally slow in bureaucratic public environments, can be accelerated in a fast-paced private equity world when the right culture, the right team players, and the right mindset come together, fast.
• Global Lean Discipline : You will embed Lean as a common language across the supply chain, ensuring daily management, visual management, problem solving, and connected flow are practiced with rigor and deliver measurable results.
• Breakthrough Performance : By reducing value stream length and variability, you will create more flexible flows, less inventory, better logistics and warehousing efficiency, and higher service levels.
• Every Member a Problem Solver : You will leave behind a stronger generation of Lean leaders, raising the technical level of hundreds of CI practitioners and creating a global community of problem solvers driven by logical thinking.
• P3 Tenneco Standard and MMOG LE Maturity : You will accelerate P3 maturity and embed MMOG LE standards, ensuring Lean and supply chain excellence are locked into the P3 Tenneco Standard with results sustained over time.

Minimum Requirements

Education : Bachelor's degree in engineering, supply chain, operations, or related field; Master's preferred (MBA a strong plus).

Skills

Equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.