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10 Goodyear procurement leaders
These ten people hold or have held procurement and sourcing leadership roles at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, from sourcing director posts to a vice president and chief procurement officer role. A reader can learn how procurement leaders build and run their teams at Goodyear.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adam Snyder
LinkedInExperience: Sourcing Director - Business Services · The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Sourcing Director - Business Services at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company since July 2022, a director-level role based in Akron, Ohio. Former Sr. Procurement Operations Manager (2021–2022) and Category Manager (2018–2021) at Goodyear, and former Project Procurement & Materials Manager at AECOM (2008–2017).
Anand Jakati
LinkedInExperience: Vice President - Supply Chain and Procurement, APAC · The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Vice President - Supply Chain and Procurement, APAC at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company since May 2023, a role listed in the Operations department at President/Vice President level and based in Shanghai. Anand Jakati was also E2E Supply Chain & Operations Lead at Mondelēz International (2015–2023).
Bill Gaudet
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Director Global Indirects - Global Procurement · The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Former Sr. Director Global Indirects - Global Procurement at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (2017–2018). Bill Gaudet was also Vice President Americas Supply Chain at Goodyear (2019–2022), a role the profile says covered demand planning, supply planning, deployment, transportation, warehousing and raw materials, and the profile lists retirement from Goodyear in 2022.
Gary A. Miller
LinkedInExperience: Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer and President , Goodyear SRI Global Purchasing Company · The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Former Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer and President , Goodyear SRI Global Purchasing Company at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (2003–2008). Gary A. Miller was also Vice President Global Supply Chain and Chief Procurement Officer (2008–2015) and Executive Vice President Global Supply Chain and CPO (2015–2016) at A. Schulman, Inc.
Helen Gu, CPSM, CEM
LinkedInExperience: Procurement Operations Director, Asia Pacific · The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Procurement Operations Director, Asia Pacific at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company since September 2018, a director-level role in the Operations department. Former Senior Category Manager, Energy and Utilities, Global Procurement (2016–2018) and Associate Director - Manufacturing Indirects, Asia Pacific Procurement (2013–2016) at Goodyear.
James Laimos
LinkedInExperience: Sourcing Director - Global Raw Materials · The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Sourcing Director - Global Raw Materials at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company since July 2022. The profile also lists Assoc. Director - Natural Rubber Procurement at Goodyear from July 2018 with no end date, and former Associate Director - NA Procurement Strategy and Transformation at Goodyear (2014–2015).
Jason Mellon
LinkedInExperience: Sourcing Director - Manufacturing Indirects · The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Sourcing Director - Manufacturing Indirects at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company since October 2023. Former Sr Global Category Manager (2019–2023), Global Category Manager (2016–2018), Senior Commodity Manager - Global Capital Equipment (2015–2016) and Regional Procurement Category Manager (2013–2015) at Goodyear.
Jeffrey Schneider
LinkedInExperience: Director Global Sourcing · The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Former Director Global Sourcing at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (2018–2022) and General Manager - Goodyear Chemical at the same company since September 2023. Jeffrey Schneider was also Senior Director Commercial and Strategy - Goodyear Chemial (2022–2023) and Senior Global Category Manger Synthetic Rubber at Goodyear (2015–2016).
Jim Prentis
LinkedInExperience: Sourcing Director - Business Services · The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Former Sourcing Director - Business Services (2017–2018) and Sourcing Director - Manufacturing Support (2016–2017) at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, and Sr. Director - Global Indirects at Goodyear since August 2023. The profile says Jim Prentis leads enterprise-wide procurement transformations.
Thibaut Weber
LinkedInExperience: Global Procurement Director · The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Global Procurement Director at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company since February 2025. Former Managing Director Natural Rubber Organization (2022–2025), Senior Procurement Category Manager Fillers (2020–2022) and Procurement Category Manager Steel (2017–2019) at Goodyear. The profile describes leading complex, international procurement organizations and an understanding of markets including EMEA, the Americas and APAC.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person to the spend area behind your question, since a raw materials sourcing director and an indirects or business services sourcing director deal with different suppliers and contracts. Check each person's dates, because some of these roles ended years ago and Goodyear's procurement setup may have changed since.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Goodyear split sourcing responsibility between global category teams and regional procurement groups?
- 02What changes when a manufacturer moves indirect spend such as business services or plant supplies under a global sourcing team?
- 03How should a procurement team handle supplier negotiations for volatile raw materials?
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