Senior Professional Services Sourcing Manager

Job Description Summary

Job Description

PLEASE NOTE: Location: Remote/Flexible. Global applicants encouraged to apply.

Role Summary/Purpose

This role is responsible for executing 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 set 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 categor ies . This role will work wi th Global Category 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

• D evelop 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/drive strategic synergies across regions and BUs

• S ecure TC O reductions across category

• 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

• Work with Vendor Management Office to monitor strategy implementation to ensure benefit realization

• Utilize an understanding of industry trends to inform the decision-making process 

• Develop expertise within function 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 design and 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 and manage 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 signidicant experience in Sourcing, Operations, or equivalent consulting experience related to Finance or other Professional Services

• Demonstrated ability in leading organizational, process, and culture change

• Demonstrated ability to influence in a matrixed organization

• This role requires significant experience comparable to a B achelors’ degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma with relevant experience)

Desired Characteristics

• M BA or B achelors’ 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.

If contracted in the US:

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Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

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