IT Director, Distribution & Logistics Technology

Tenneco is one of the world's leading designer, manufacturers and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers, with approximately 78.000 team members working at more than 300 sites worldwide. Through our four business groups, Motorparts, Ride Performance, Clean Air and Powertrain, Tenneco is driving advancements in global mobility by delivering technology solutions for diversified global markets, including light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway, industrial, motorsport and the aftermarket.

Job Title: IT Director - Distribution and Logistics Technology

Location: Skokie, Illinois or Southfield Michigan

Tenneco is one of the world's leading designer, manufacturers and marketers of automotive products for original equipment and aftermarket customers, with approximately 65,000 team members working at more than 300 sites worldwide. Through our four business groups, DRiV, Ride Performance, Clean Air and Powertrain, Tenneco is driving advancements in global mobility by delivering technology solutions for diversified global markets, including light vehicle, commercial truck, off-highway, industrial, motorsport and the aftermarket.

Reporting to the Executive Director - DRiV Applications, the IT Director - Distribution and Logistics Technology is a highly visible and key leadership role whose primary mission is to define and implement business enabling Distribution and Logistics IT strategies, solutions, and services for the Global After Market. The successful candidate will be an expert in distribution and logistics technology systems, working seamlessly with both business and IT stakeholders across regions and with external technology partners in formulating our strategy to achieve standardization, harmonization, and simplification of IT solutions, and with the clear KPI's to improve business value. The role will work with team members across the business and IT, ranging from senior leaders to staff in operations / logistics and distribution. They will ensure the delivery of a portfolio of distribution and logistics IT projects and services, maximizing service levels while reducing costs by leveraging enterprise solutions. Priority for the role will be identifying ways to leverage process and technology to drive incremental business value within the Global After Market business.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with Supply Chain Distribution and Logistics leaders and operations teams to drive transformative and continuous improvement initiatives across the function.
• Work with distribution and logistics leaders to break down complex problems into actionable steps to drive strategy, innovation and develop the global strategic vision.
• Align Information Technology's priorities and activities with distribution and logistics strategies and related systems and information requirements.
• Modernize, enhance, and evaluate legacy processes and make changes where appropriate.
• Develop roadmaps containing sequencing of distribution and logistics IT solutions working towards the achievement of the business strategies. (1-3-5 years)
• Facilitate understanding and support the buy-in of the Functional Roadmap to key stakeholders in the function regionally and globally.
• Contribute as instrumental leader within the IT functions cultivating functional excellence and continuous improvement.
• Work with the business function/geography and IT Corporate functions to develop project business cases and value realization processes.
• Manage through Regional IT Business Partners, Program Managers, Project Managers, analysts, and programmers, in the development and installation of information systems for distribution and logistics.
• Ensure good project governance and execution, with monthly reporting ensuring justification of deviations and providing feedback to functional stakeholders.
• Identify standardization of processes and support solutions that drive business value.
• Understand current market and changing technology trends.
• Deliver technology that enables Distribution and Logistics to achieve maturity model advancement.

Minimum Requirements:

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Supply Chain Management is required. Master's Degree is a plus.

Experience:

• 10+ years of related experience in a large or midsize multinational manufacturing and distribution company.
• Experience in the automotive industry preferred.
• Broad and deep knowledge in Supply Chain business processes and technologies with a focus in distribution and warehouse management.
• Familiarity with SAP ECC/ERP with emphasis on Manhattan Warehouse Management Systems as well as other Distribution and Logistics execution and analytic tools.
• Experience with SAP EWM and SAP WM a plus.
• Experience with systems implementation in both on-prem and cloud-based scenarios.
• Experience performing system development and support in an outsourced IT environment.
• Understanding of the Aftermarket business model with knowledge of the Original Equipment business model a plus.
• Strong teamwork and people skills with the ability to communicate with all management levels.
• Strong ability to collaborate, influence and build consensus and operate in a global team environment managing personnel in multiple countries and time zones.

Travel: Requires travel up to 20%.

Specialized Skills and Knowledge:

Setting Strategy

• Provide strategic consultancy to assigned customers in filtering, defining, and designing business processes to support customer requirements.
• Knows the business and the mission-critical technical and functional skills needed to do the job; understands various types of business propositions and understands how businesses operates in general; learns new methods and technologies easily.
• Strong technical acumen, knowledge of industry best practices, and best of breed components within the Distribution and Logistics tools and processes.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain a multi-year strategic technology roadmap including build vs. buy recommendations to match business processes and plans.
• Experience working in collaboration with executive management and other IT leaders in assessing customer requests and business challenges and providing appropriate solutions and operational service levels.
• Can come up with the next great breakthrough thing to do; is creative, a visionary, and can manage innovation; is an effective strategist full of ideas and possibilities; sees multiple futures; has broad interests and knowledge; can both create and bring exciting ideas to market; comfortable speculating about alternative futures without all of the data.

Executing for Results

• Track record of successfully planning and executing complex, multi-million-dollar business / IT programs/projects.
• Demonstrated track record of working with high-level business and IT executives in translating business strategies into prioritized IT investments.
• Skilled at taking business requirement documents and distilling them into functional development specifications.
• Can solve even the toughest and most complex of problems; great at gleaning meaning from whatever data is available; is a quick study of the new and different; adds personal wisdom and experience to come to the best conclusion and solution, given the situation; uses multiple problem-solving tools and techniques.

Leading Teams (direct & matrixed organization)

• Is skilled at getting individuals, teams, to perform at an elevated level and to embrace change; negotiates skillfully to achieve a fair outcome or promote a common cause; communicates a compelling vision and is committed to what needs to be done; inspires others; builds motivated, high-performing teams; understands what motivates different people.
• This position requires exceptional collaboration, teamwork, negotiation, influence, and relationship building skills at all levels with internal and external parties in alignment with our Core Values.
• Reads people accurately; can diagnose strengths, weaknesses, and potential; knows what skills are required to fill a job or role; hires the best. Recognizes and develops talent within the extended organization to "strengthen the bench" for successor.
• Exposure to multi-vendor and multi-cultural global IT delivery organizations. Ability to manage multi-cultured teams with an appreciation and awareness of individual differences.
• Proactively develops and maintains professional relationships with peers and key business stakeholders.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.