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…