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Lead Professional Services Sourcing Manager
Role Summary/Purpose
This role is responsible for supporting strategic sourcing activities across all aspects of GE Vernova's Professional Services spend with the goal to achieve significant initial cost reductions and year-over-year continuous improvement while maintaining or improving supplier quality and service levels. This role will support the strategy, coordinate efforts and policy, and execute initiatives involving vendor management, performance monitoring, demand management, and governance/compliance to include Commodity Strategy, MSA and SOW Negotiation ownership related to the Professional Service categories. This role will work with Global Category Managers, Regional Sourcing Managers and GE stakeholders in Business Sourcing, Operations, Supply Chain, and other functions to identify sourcing needs, determine vendor and demand management strategies, execute sourcing events, and drive organizational processes and compliance. This role will establish relationships by building trust with internal and external stakeholders and developing and executing strategies to meet business outcomes.
Essential Responsibilities
Support and implement sourcing strategies
Drive activities related to GE Vernova's transition including working with BUs to clarify roles and responsibilities, standardize processes and tools, and identify strategic synergies within your region
Secure TCO reductions across region
Negotiate with dedicated providers according to specific policies to achieve the best contractual conditions while ensuring internal customer satisfaction
Drive value through supplier relationship management
Measure and track internal performance
Oversee end-to-end Sourcing process: strategy, market analysis, negotiation process (RFXs), supplier selection and contract creation, and buy channel management
Utilize an understanding of industry trends to inform the decision-making process
Develop expertise within function and region by growing reputation within organization, providing professional and thought leadership, influencing policy, and ensuring delivery within own function while linking with other functions of the organization
Serve as trusted advisor to multi-functional stakeholder teams to implement specific strategic sourcing initiatives to meet business requirements and priorities
Partner with other functions to ensure all commercial requirements capture desired cost, performance, service, and business outcomes
Lead multi-functional stakeholder teams on specific strategic sourcing initiatives or projects
Drive best practices and uphold internal and external policies, regulations, and laws
Drive Lean methodology at all levels to include implementing Standard Work, Daily Management, Value Stream Mapping, and Kaizens
Qualifications/Requirements
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent knowledge or experience from an accredited university or college
Minimum significant experience in Sourcing, Operations, or equivalent consulting experience related to Finance or other Professional Services
Demonstrated ability in supporting organizational, process, and culture change
Demonstrated ability to influence in a matrixed organization
This role requires significant experience comparable to a Bachelors' degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma with relevant experience)
Desired Characteristics
MBA or Bachelors' degree or equivalent knowledge or experience in Sourcing or Supply Chain Management
Category Management (Professional Services), Contract Management, and Sourcing experience in a multi-national company
Track record of driving step-change improvement in Sourcing or similar function
Strong analytical skills (Spend analytics, should-cost analysis, market R&I)
Strong experience in Procurement processes and system integration projects
Sourcing or Analytics experience in a multinational company
Excellent communication, negotiating and influencing skills at all levels of the organization as well as with external organizations
Demonstrated customer focus - evaluates decisions through the eyes of the customer; builds strong customer relationships; creates processes with customer viewpoint; partners with customers to help shape their future initiatives.
Change oriented - actively generates process improvements; champions and drives change initiatives; confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways, balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly.
Comfortable with a broad range of research tools and technologies, analytics, and financial analysis
Strong project management skills
Thought leader, experience with external benchmarking to drive next level process improvements
Strong track record for implementing change and delivering results
Demonstrated negotiation skills
GE Vernova: Leading a New Era of Energy
Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority. If we want our energy future to be different ... we must be different. That is our singular mission.
GE, the 130-year-old energy pioneer. Our unwavering commitment to powering the planet, now fully focused on the energy transition. No company has the unique combination to pioneer what's next - just as we have before. As we answer the call with renewed purpose and vigor, we are moving our GE energy businesses-including Renewables, Power, Digital and Energy Financial Services - under one banner to deliver a united, focused, one-of-a-kind force: GE Vernova. Together, with our customers and partners, we will chart the course to a better future.
Our mission is embedded in our new name. We retain our treasured birthright, "GE," in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. "Ver," "verde," "verdant," all signal Earth's verdant and lush ecosystems. "Nova," from the Latin "novus," nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver.
Our new name sounds different, because it is. GE Vernova will act swiftly and surely to help build a cleaner, better future. This is not business as usual: this is business purpose-built to lead the new era of energy.
