Tenneco has promoted Sarah Parker to Vice President Procurement Americas – Clean Air, Powertrain and Ignition, recognizing her leadership in procurement transformation, strategic sourcing and operational excellence.
In her expanded role, Parker will lead procurement strategy across the Americas for Tenneco’s Clean Air, Powertrain and Ignition businesses. She will be responsible for strengthening supplier partnerships, enhancing supply chain resilience, driving cost optimization and supporting the company’s long-term growth.
Parker joined Tenneco in 2024 as Executive Purchasing Director – Office of Strategic Execution. Since then, she has led one of the company’s largest direct material business transformation initiatives across multiple business units. She worked closely with senior leadership to improve profitability, optimize P&L performance, strengthen purchasing strategies and identify opportunities for value analysis, value engineering (VAVE), direct material cost reductions and operational efficiency. Her promotion reflects the impact she has made in advancing Tenneco’s strategic procurement agenda.
Before joining Tenneco, Parker served as Global Procurement Director – Commercial Vehicle at Garrett – Advancing Motion, where she managed approximately US$750 million in direct purchasing spend across 9 global manufacturing locations. She led global procurement teams responsible for strategic sourcing, supplier performance, SOX compliance, ESG initiatives and sourcing readiness for commercial vehicle programmes. During her tenure, she launched a global procurement redesign, strengthened governance, improved sourcing processes and exceeded annual cost-saving targets through strategic supplier negotiations and operational improvements.
Earlier, Parker held senior supply chain leadership positions at Auria, serving as Senior Director of Supply Chain and previously Director of Supply Chain. She managed regional and global supply operations across multiple manufacturing facilities while overseeing purchasing spend worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Her achievements included delivering significant cost savings, improving supplier performance, strengthening commodity forecasting, leading contract negotiations, advancing sustainability initiatives and ensuring uninterrupted customer supply.
Prior to Auria, she spent more than 6 years with Constellium as Director of Supply Chain for the company’s North American automotive business. She led supply chain operations supporting multiple manufacturing facilities and helped strengthen procurement performance across a multi-billion-dollar business.
With extensive leadership experience in procurement, supply chain management, strategic sourcing, operational transformation and manufacturing, Parker has built a strong reputation for delivering measurable business results, developing high-performing teams and leading large-scale transformation programmes. Her promotion reflects Tenneco’s commitment to strengthening its global procurement organization through internal leadership development.
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