What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director, Enterprise Expense Transformation position at NAPA Auto Parts?
Job Summary
The Senior Director, Enterprise Expense Transformation will lead and institutionalize enterprise-wide expense optimization efforts. This role is accountable for translating cost opportunities into measurable, realized savings embedded in financial performance while strengthening operating leverage across the organization.
This leader will partner closely with executive leadership to establish disciplined cost governance, accelerate high-impact initiatives, and build a culture of sustainable cost ownership.
Responsibilities
GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.
The Senior Director, Enterprise Expense Transformation will lead and institutionalize enterprise-wide expense optimization efforts. This role is accountable for translating cost opportunities into measurable, realized savings embedded in financial performance while strengthening operating leverage across the organization.
This leader will partner closely with executive leadership to establish disciplined cost governance, accelerate high-impact initiatives, and build a culture of sustainable cost ownership.
Responsibilities
- Establish annual and multi-year expense reduction targets across functions and spend categories
- Translate enterprise financial objectives into clearly defined initiatives with accountable owners and timelines
- Provide strategic oversight and challenge major spend decisions to ensure alignment with financial and operational priorities
- Lead structured executive cost review forums
- Own escalation pathways for cost overruns and stalled initiatives
- Implement disciplined “stop, reset, redesign” mechanisms for underperforming investments
- Sponsor and oversee the highest-impact expense initiatives (e.g., SG&A, IT, indirect spend)
- Identify and remove organizational barriers to execution
- Ensure leaders are accountable for delivering committed savings
- Ensure savings are captured and reflected in budgets and forecasts
- Prevent re-spend and leakage
- Govern reinvestment of freed-up capital to maximize enterprise value
- Institutionalize cost ownership within performance management frameworks
- Embed productivity and operating discipline into leadership scorecards
- Champion a zero-based, value-driven mindset across the organization
- 10 years of experience in strategy, finance, transformation, or enterprise cost leadership
- Demonstrated track record of delivering measurable cost savings and operational improvement
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence and challenge senior leaders
- High resilience and comfort operating in environments requiring accountability and constructive tension
- Embodies the following values: serve, perform, influence, respect, innovate, team.
- Effectively communicates by motivating and inspiring others through clear and proactive communication.
- Delivers results and drives customer success by committing and focusing on outcomes to deliver results and making the customer the center of decisions.
- Makes balanced decisions and thinks strategically by being a forward thinker.
- Must be able to work remote or in an office setting.
GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.