Job Description Summary

What impact you’ll make

Define and implement the direct material sourcing strategy for the assigned commodity group within GEV Gas Power. This role ensures Safety and Quality, involves optimizing the supply base to support global operations (Delivery), and involves maximizing cost efficiency (Cost).

Job Description

What you’ll do

Global Commodity Strategy:

• Identify and assess supplier capabilities and capacities for sub-commodities.
• Develop and execute a global strategy and target supplier panel (commodity landscape) to maximize supply chain security, expand capacity wherever applicable and maximize cost savings.
• Conduct competitive bidding for strategic supplier selection.
• Leverage cross-functional teams to enhance negotiation outcomes based on "should cost" principles.
• Negotiate long-term agreements with strategic suppliers.

Supplier Development and Relationship Management:

• Own the strategic supplier relationship and development process.
• Initiate and lead strategic supplier qualifications in collaboration with supplier quality and engineering teams.
• Define and enhance existing and new supply base capabilities to improve quality, service levels, fulfillment, reduce cycle time and achieve cost savings.
• Work with regional strategic sourcing teams to identify Near Shore Development (NSD) and localization opportunities.
• Leverage cross-GEV business commodity strategies to drive synergies and efficiencies.

Project and Program Management:

• Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing in New Product Implementation (NPI) projects to define supply chain strategies.
• Communicate the sourcing strategy and hand over negotiated capacity expansion and savings projects to site commodity and fulfillment teams for execution.
• Ensure compliance with Quality and Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) rules across all projects and operations.

What you’ll bring (Basic Qualifications)

• BS/BA Degree (Technical or Business preferred)
• Significant experience in strategic sourcing
• Previous manufacturing/sourcing and negotiation experience
• Working knowledge of ERP Systems, including Business Intelligence tools (Tableau)
• Strong skills in MS Office Applications (including MS Access
• Demonstrated project/program leadership
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong business acumen
• Solid communication and presentation skills in English
• Ability to work in a cross-functional matrix organization
• Self-starter, resourceful, team builder, and leader
• Strategic and global thinker

 

What will make you stand out

• GEV Entry Level Program graduate (GEV employees only)
• MS/MBA degree
• BB Certification (GEV employees only)

Benefits Available to You

GE Vernova employees rise to the challenge of building a world that works. In order to meet this mission, we provide varied, competitive benefits to help support our workforce: Our Culture | GE Vernova (gecareers.com)

• Our compensation & benefits are designed to help you manage your personal and family needs, while rewarding high performers. We offer a robust benefits package depending on your employment status and your national requirements.
• A healthy, balanced lifestyle can mean different things to different people. We've created programs that support the way you live and work today.
• GE Vernova invests to provide opportunities to grow your career by providing a path for continued on-the-job learning and development.

Inclusion & Diversity

At GE Vernova, we believe in the value of your unique identity, background and experiences. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture, where everyone feels empowered to do their best work because they feel accepted, respected and that they belong.  Click here to learn more: https://jobs.gecareers.com/vernova/global/en/i-d-e

About GE Gas Power

GE Gas Power engineers cleaner, more accessible energy that people depend on, powering growth and prosperity for people everywhere. Our leading technologies produce a third of the world’s electricity thanks to our talented people, who make gas work for our customers, stakeholders and the world. Through relentless innovation and continuous partnership with our customers, we are building the energy technologies of the future and providing the cleaner, more efficient power people depend on today.

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