Job Description Summary
Negotiate with dedicated providers according to specific policies. Achieve the best contractual conditions while also ensuring internal customer satisfaction. Interprets simple internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Stays informed of industry trends that may influence work.
Job Description
Company Overview:
Are you ready to see your career take flight? At GE Aerospace, we believe the world works better when it flies. We are a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. We have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen.
Role Overview:
- Define and improve Sourcing strategies at business or plant level including management of regional & business teams.
- Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise within their discipline. Require strong commercial awareness, and is expected to influence the development of strategy within own area, including control of resources and influences policy formulation.
- Lead functional teams or projects with minimal resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. Communicates difficult concepts and may influence others' options on particular topics. Guide others to consider a different point of view.
- Impacts the team's ability to achieve service, quality and timeliness of objectives. Work is subject to functional policy objectives. Regularly advises management in the function and/or in the business. Has a supportive role in decision making about important subjects. High levels of evaluative judgment are required to achieve outcomes required.
- Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems that impact the function. Has ability to assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders. Able to offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide recommendations. Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.
The Ideal Candidate:
- The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong communication skills, proven experience leading large, complex commercial negotiations, and the ability to quickly establish direction and drive results in ambiguous environments.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.
- Minimum 10 years of related experience, including at least 5 years in sourcing and sourcing management.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
- Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
- Established project management skills.
At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
#LI-Remote - This is a remote position
