Kevin Austin is group vice president of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and deputy chief quality officer for Toyota Motor North America.

Austin oversees North America’s end-to-end vehicle and parts supply chain operations, ensuring seamless integration across critical functions. His responsibilities include Demand and Supply Management, Supply Chain Strategy, New Product Introduction, Service Parts Operations, and Logistics—spanning both parts and finished vehicle distribution. In addition to these core functions, he is also focused on advancing digital transformation and innovation within the supply chain, leveraging technology to enhance efficiency, resilience, and customer experience. The team is committed to driving operational excellence and continuous improvement in support of the company’s broader strategic goals.

Austin began his career at Toyota in 1999 as an analyst within the Production Control division at Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America (TEMA). In this role, he was responsible for production planning efforts and helping lead Toyota’s supply chain coordination to ensure appropriate production capacity and output to meet customer needs and demand. Following Production Control, Austin worked in the Human Resources department supporting company-wide initiatives focused on team member engagement and development.

In 2012, Austin took an international assignment in Japan where he worked for two years in the Toyota Motors America Japan (TMA-J) division for Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC). Upon completion of the TMC assignment, Austin rotated to Toyota Motor Sales (TMS) in California where he worked in the Distributions Operations department until his transition to the TMNA headquarters in Plano, Texas in 2015.

Austin has held several roles since then, including a rotational assignment within TMS in the Denver Region office, supporting and engaging the regional team and dealers in achieving mutual sales and fixed operations goals and objectives, general manager within the Toyota Sales team, and most recently, serving as vice president for DSM.

Austin is originally from Montgomery, West Virginia and obtained a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University.

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