Global Transformation Leader — Automotive Adhesives

DuPont; Antwerpen; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

DuPont is seeking a high-impact global leader to drive the Automotive Adhesives business roadmap. You will report to the Global Business Director, work with regional leaders, and manage a broad transformation program across sourcing, materials, manufacturing, and supply chain.

This role requires influencing across functions, removing barriers, and delivering measurable business outcomes. You will lead cross-functional teams through complex initiatives, ensure alignment on scope and timing, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Operations, Supply Chain, Business, or related field.
• Several years of experience in manufacturing, procurement, supply chain, product management, operations, or business leadership.
• Proven delivery of productivity, operational, or business performance improvements in a global matrix organization.
• Strong project-management, analytical, communication, influencing, and change-leadership skills. Lean/Six Sigma/Kaizen experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own a multi-year global roadmap across sourcing, materials, formulations, manufacturing, logistics, packaging, external manufacturing, portfolio complexity, and process efficiency.
• Build and prioritize the initiative pipeline by impact, speed, feasibility, customer needs, risk, resources, and sustainability.
• Run governance, project reviews, escalation, executive reporting, and a single source of truth for status, risks, decisions, and actions.
• Align cross-functional teams on scope, ownership, timing, dependencies, and decisions; remove barriers and drive execution.
• Partner across Procurement, Product Management, R&D, Manufacturing, MT, Quality, and Supply Chain on sourcing, localization, formulation, yield, process, asset, packaging, portfolio, and resilience initiatives.
• Ensure technical, quality, customer-approval, and Management of Change requirements are met.
• Partner with Finance to validate and sustain benefits; champion continuous improvement and global best-practice sharing.

Skills

Project management

Analytical skills

Communication

Influencing

Change leadership

Lean Six Sigma

Kaizen

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

DuPont is seeking a high-impact global leader to drive the Automotive Adhesives business roadmap. You will report to the Global Business Director, work with regional leaders, and manage a broad transformation program across sourcing, materials, manufacturing, and supply chain.

This role requires influencing across functions, removing barriers, and delivering measurable business outcomes. You will lead cross-functional teams through complex initiatives, ensure alignment on scope and timing, and