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About GE Vernova

GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.

GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future. As part of the Gas Power One Field Services team, FieldCore installs, maintains and upgrades power generation equipment, enabling operators of the world’s energy infrastructure to provide more reliable and affordable energy.

Job Summary

The Sourcing Manager I drives competitive advantage and cost saving strategies across multiple regions. Utilizes expert knowledge of the creation and management of leveraged agreements, the management of key supplier and customer relationships, and the effective execution of commodity planning and management processes to successfully implement, execute, and comply with global procurement and commodity/spend category strategies, contracts, processes, and policies. Leads identified Regional/Global leverage opportunities.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Manage safety, quality, delivery, cost, and cash metrics for subregion and ensure team is delivering to targets

• Develop and implement regional commodity strategies for assigned commodities. Distribute to other subregion teams and ensure strategies are communicated to the Events team. Ensure other Sourcing Manager strategies are implemented in your subregion, i.e. primary and secondary supplier by state/region

• Understand subregion specific market conditions and ensure strategies are developed to address. Partner with other Sourcing Managers to incorporate into overall regional commodity strategy

• Lead outage forecasting activities for assigned commodities and/or subregions

• Create and utilize RFQ templates and other standard documents/templates to support commodity strategy. Distribute to subregion teams, PPM’s, and Buyers

• Implement long-term agreements with strategic suppliers (MSA’s, SOW’s, etc.) utilizing FieldCore templates. Ensure compliance to negotiated agreements. Suggest improvements to standard contract language

• Deliver cash though supplier payment term improvement (DTP) for assigned commodities. Understand MUFG program and utilize as appropriate

• Drive cost-out initiatives and ensure the team is meeting cost targets. Create a sustainable backlog of cost out projects. Ensure Reduce is updated

• Support NCR and claims processes as needed. Ensure NCR data is utilized in commodity strategies and supplier selection

• Ensure all suppliers utilized in subregion are ComplyWorks and Technically qualified. Manage PPM’s and Buyers to ensure compliance. Provide guidance to Supplier Quality and EHS as needed

• Drive supplier development initiatives and lead projects in collaboration with other functions (i.e. Productivity, Value Stream, etc.)

• Manage supplier relationships in assigned commodities. Lead/join escalation discussions as necessary

• Attend and be a strong contributor during 3M, ORR, and POR reviews. Ensure appropriate sourcing strategies are being utilized, SOW’s received, new supplier needs identified, all PR’s entered, suppliers onboarded, final scopes provided to suppliers, understand cost overruns, gather feedback on supplier safety, quality, and performance, record lessons learned, and adjust sourcing strategy as needed

• Drive lean workouts to improve Sourcing capabilities in region/sub-region. Drive continuous improvement in Sourcing processes

• Travel required

• May be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our FieldCore vision and align with our organization’s core values.

Required Qualifications & Experience :

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, or similar related area, or equivalent

• 7+ years applicable experience and demonstrated success/knowledge, or equivalent combination of education and experience

• 2+ years of specialized/industry experience

• Experience with supplier management, contracting and negotiations required

• Must possess a solid understanding of supplier management practices and have experience with large-scale system implementations

• Fluent and proficient in both spoken and written English

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong analytical skills to include cost and price modeling, value analysis, and ROI

• Energy, construction, engineering, or related experience is preferred

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint)

• Membership in ISM (NAPM), with professional certification as a CPM preferred

• Ability to sustain exemplary knowledge of ecommerce, supply chain management, and ERP system technology as they evolve

• Ability to focus on satisfying internal customer requirements and obtaining and responding to internal customer feedback

• Demonstrated self-initiative and decision-making skills

• Demonstrated project management skills

• Demonstrated ERP skills including familiarity with Oracle

• Ability to deal effectively in a matrix structured environment and work well with external business contacts while conveying a positive, service-oriented attitude

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing

• Ability to maintain complete confidentiality and discretion in business relationships and exercise sound business judgment

FieldCore is an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, ancestry, genetic information, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law