Job Responsibilities:

The Automotive Americas business is seeking a Sr. Director, Business Excellence & Acceleration to serve as the strategic and operational partner to the General Manager, ensuring alignment of priorities, disciplined execution, and delivery of growth and performance objectives across the region.

This role serves as a unifying force across Product Management, Sales, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Global stakeholders to ensure the Automotive Americas business advances the highest-impact growth priorities with clarity and coordination. By integrating perspectives across independent reporting structures, the position drives enterprise alignment, accelerates decision-making, and ensures strategic initiatives translate into disciplined, cross-functional execution. The Sr. Director enables the organization to move cohesively toward market-leading innovation, profitable growth, and operational excellence through structured governance, clear prioritization, and shared accountability.

Thought leadership, Strategic Alignment & Growth Advancement 

• Partner with the General Manager and leadership team to shape and operationalize the 5-year growth strategy.
• Identify and frame the most critical growth questions facing the business (e.g., portfolio shifts, technology bets, footprint strategy, margin levers).
• Translate strategic priorities into structured workstreams with clear milestones, KPIs, risks, and decision gates.
• Facilitate alignment across Global and Regional teams to ensure commercial priorities are supported by operational and technical readiness.
• Lead special projects that address complex business challenges impacting growth and competitiveness.
• Prepare executive-level analyses and recommendations to support decision-making.

Business Governance, operating Rhythm and Execution certainty to drive growth

• Set direction and Lead cross-functional teams to develop and execute strategies / initiatives that are critical for future growth
• Collaborate with other functions to optimize commercial and operational strategy
• Establish and maintain structured management operating systems to drive execution discipline.
• Create portfolio visibility across strategic initiatives, customer programs, and transformation efforts.
• Drive recurring cross-functional reviews to ensure clarity of priorities and resource alignment.
• Provide structured updates to regional and global stakeholders on performance, risks, and corrective actions.

Organizational Influence, Talent development & Continuous Improvement

• Part of leadership group making critical talent decision for the business – Identifying top talent, building development and succession plans,
• Strengthen cross-functional collaboration and decision-making processes across separate reporting structures.
• Upgrade capabilities of the wider enterprise on strategic and communication skills through special initiatives
• Promote data-driven evaluation of opportunities and disciplined prioritization of resources.
• Partner with PMO and functional leaders to improve tools, processes, and execution frameworks.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and enterprise thinking

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, or Business
• MBA strongly preferred
• Significant experience in program management, business operations, strategy, and cross-functional leadership roles.
• Proven experience influencing across matrixed organizations without direct authority
• Strong commercial and financial acumen
• Experience in automotive (Tier-1 or OEM preferred), industrial, manufacturing, or similarly complex global environments preferred. 
• Working knowledge of APQP processes
• Experience working across regions and cultures
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to travel within the Americas as required

Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Teamwork, Innovation
SET: Strategy, Execution, Talent