Lead Professional Services Sourcing Specialist

**Job Description Summary**:
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 from an accredited university or college or equivalent knowledge or experience
- Minimum of 5 years of 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

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