Director, Sourcing and Supply Chain

Job Description

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Who are we?

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!

Who will you be working with?

The Director, Sourcing and Supply Chain leads the sourcing strategy and execution for the Freight Car Products business. The role leads a team of approximately 12 people and ensures competitive cost, supplier quality and delivery, material availability, capacity alignment, and supply continuity across internal Wabtec plants and a global external supplier network.

This is a broad, hands-on leadership position connecting Commercial demand, Operations, Engineering, Quality, Planning, Fulfillment, and liaison with global commodity teams. The leader will strengthen existing processes and create new governance, tools, and operating rhythms where needed, with strong reliance on Oracle and disciplined data management.

How will you make a difference, what is your typically day look like?

Sourcing Strategy and Supply Network

• Develop and execute the Freight Car Products sourcing strategy in alignment with business priorities, customer commitments, financial objectives, and global commodity direction.
• Coordinate sourcing requirements across product lines and plants, balancing internal manufacturing and external suppliers based on total cost, capacity, lead time, logistics, risk, and customer needs.
• Create regional and global sourcing plans, including make-or-buy, localization, dual-source, supplier-capacity, and business-continuity strategies.
•  Lead annual sourcing plans, budgets, forecasts, cost-out pipelines, and risk-and-opportunity reviews.
•  Provide decisive leadership during shortages, supplier disruptions, quality issues, and capacity constraints.

Supplier Leadership and Commercial Execution

• Lead supplier selection, RFQs, negotiations, contracts, long-term agreements, and strategic supplier relationships.
• Drive supplier performance in availability, cost, delivery, capacity, responsiveness, technology, and risk; establish scorecards and corrective-action reviews.
• Partner with Supplier Quality and Engineering on qualification, PPAP, industrialization, resourcing, and production readiness.
• Deliver material-cost improvement through negotiation, volume leverage, should-cost, design-to-cost, localization, specification alignment, and resourcing.
• Monitor, raw-material volatility, geopolitical exposure, logistics risk, and sole-source dependencies.

SIOP, Capacity and Material Availability

• Act as a key leader in the Freight Car SIOP process, translating commercial forecasts, backlog, customer orders, product mix, and new-product plans into executable supply and capacity actions.
• Validate internal and supplier capacity against demand; identify constrained parts, long-lead materials, demand gaps, and customer-delivery risks.
• Develop supply scenarios and mitigation plans for changes in demand, car-build outlook, product mix, and program launches.
• Create a disciplined cadence for SIOP actions, escalation, accountability, and closure, improving forecast visibility and supply-plan adherence.
• Partner with Planning and Fulfillment to align supplier commitments, MRP requirements, inventory parameters, production priorities, and customer obligations.

Oracle, Data and Process Governance  

• Own sourcing discipline in Oracle, ensuring approved suppliers, sourcing rules, allocation percentages, prices, price breaks, lead times, MOQs, payment terms, and other purchasing attributes are accurate and current.
• Align supplier quotations and contracts with purchase orders, standard costs, material requirements, and financial reporting.
• Partner with Operations, Commercial and Finance to resolve master-data, transaction, workflow, and process issues that cause shortages, excess inventory, price errors, or poor planning signals.
• Establish standard work for supplier and part creation, pricing updates, sourcing changes, new-product introduction, resourcing, and production handoff.
• Use Oracle, Purchasing Datamart, dashboards, and analytics to provide clear visibility to cost performance, supply risks, supplier commitments, and execution gaps.
• Coach the team and cross-functional stakeholders on Oracle processes, controls, and required data discipline.

Commercial, Product and Plant Partnership

• Work closely with Commercial to support bids, quotations, order entry, and customer commitments with reliable pricing, lead times, capacity, logistics, and sourcing-risk inputs.
• Establish and maintain costs for parts, assemblies, kits, projects, and new-product opportunities; challenge bid BOMs and sourcing assumptions to improve competitiveness and protect margin.
• Engage suppliers early in quotations and product development to improve technical solutions, cost, delivery, and capacity commitments.
• Align internal plants on sourcing priorities, capacity allocation, transfer prices, lead times, cost, quality, and escalation requirements.
• Participate in operating, backlog, order-entry, Engineering, Quality, OPEX, and new-project reviews as needed.

Process Improvement and Operational Excellence

• Assess and improve sourcing, supplier-management, SIOP, quotation, new-product, resourcing, escalation, and handoff processes.
• Create missing processes and governance, including clear roles, decision rights, approvals, ownership, standard work, templates, dashboards, and review cadences.
• Build a culture of proactive risk identification and sustainable root-cause correction rather than reactive expediting.

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop approximately 12 sourcing professionals, with clear goals, accountability, development plans, and resource allocation.
• Build team capability in strategic sourcing, negotiation, contracts, supplier management, rail products, Oracle, SIOP, cost analysis, and problem solving.
• Promote safety, integrity, transparency, urgency, teamwork, continuous improvement, and effective collaboration across plants, functions, and regions.
• Drive talent development, performance management, recruitment, organizational capability, and succession planning.

Key Performance Indicators

• Material availability, supply continuity, and sourcing impact on customer delivery.
• Material cost reduction and validated sourcing savings
• Oracle sourcing-data accuracy and purchasing-parameter discipline
• Purchase-price performance and direct-material variance
• SIOP action closure and supply-plan adherence
• Supplier on-time delivery and supplier quality
• Inventory, excess and obsolete material, payment terms, and working capital
• Supplier capacity, risk mitigation, and alternative-source coverage
• Team capability, engagement, and succession readiness
• Contract, long-term-agreement, and preferred-supplier compliance

What do we want to know about you?

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive sourcing, procurement, materials, supply-chain, or manufacturing experience in a complex industrial environment.
• Proven experience leading and developing a sourcing or supply-chain team across multiple sites and a matrix organization.
• Deep expertise in strategic sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier performance, cost reduction, supplier development, and risk management.
• Strong knowledge of SIOP, demand and capacity planning, materials planning, production planning, inventory, and supply assurance.
• Strong Oracle ERP/MRP experience, including sourcing rules, supplier and item data, pricing, lead times, purchasing parameters, and procurement processes.
• Demonstrated ability to improve existing processes and create effective new processes, governance, and standard work.
• Strong commercial, financial, analytical, communication, negotiation, and executive-presentation skills.
• Ability to work across countries, cultures, and time zones and to travel domestically and internationally. English fluency required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Meaningful prior experience in freight rail or the broader rail industry.
• Knowledge of freight-car products and processes, including castings, forgings, fabrication, machining, brakes, truck components, couplers, or draft systems.
• Experience managing suppliers across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
• Experience with APQP, PPAP, FAI, engineering changes, new-product introduction, Lean, value engineering, design-to-cost, or should-cost methodologies.
• MBA, relevant master’s degree, or a recognized sourcing/supply-chain certification.

Leadership Competencies

Strategic sourcing • Rail and product understanding • Customer and commercial focus • SIOP expertise • Oracle and data discipline • Global supplier leadership • Financial acumen • Operational execution • Process improvement • Cross-functional influence • Change leadership • Talent development • Integrity and accountability

This role is also eligible for a performance bonus. More information on offered benefits, which include health, welfare, and retirement, is available at mywabtecbenefits.com.

Locations: Pittsburgh, PA, Chicago, or other Wabtec US locations

Relocation assistance may be provided if eligibility requirements are met.

Wabtec will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable) and fitness for duty test (as applicable).

Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:

Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.   

To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.

We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences, and styles… People like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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Additional Information

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The salary rate for this role is currently $120600-171800 The actual salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, education, business needs, market demands and work location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. More information on offered benefits, which include health, welfare, and retirement, are available at mywabtecbenefits.com. Other benefit offerings for this role may include annual bonus, if eligible.

What could you accomplish in a place that puts People First?

At Wabtec, it’s not just about a job - it’s about the impact you make. When our people come together, we’re Expanding the Possible by continuously improving what we do and how we do it - for our clients and each other.

If you’re ready to revolutionize how the world moves for future generations, Wabtec is the place for you.
 

Who are we?

Wabtec is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight and transit rail sectors. Drawing on more than 150 years of experience, we are leading the way in safety, efficiency, reliability, innovation, and productivity. Whether it’s freight, transit, ports, logistics, mining, industrial, or marine, our expertise, technologies, and people together – are accelerating the future of transportation. With roots that date back to George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, and Louis Faiveley, Wabtec has always built technologies and implemented solutions for a variety of sectors that are critical to meeting the needs of customers and governments alike.

Our global team of about 30,000 employees worldwide delivers performance that moves the world forward. We’re lifelong learners, obsessed with better. Learn more at www.WabtecCorp.com.

Culture powers us and the possibilities.

We believe the best ideas come from a mix of experiences and backgrounds. At Wabtec, we strive every day to create a place where everyone belongs. We’re building a culture where leadership, inclusion and your unique perspective fuel progress.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome talent of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including race, gender, age, disability, veteran status and more.

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