Job Description Summary
The Sourcing Product Line Leader will partner with the GEnx Product Line team to build long term strategy. This role will drive collaboration between Sourcing Commodities, Product Lines, and Engineering teams to find optimal sourcing solutions that deliver on the business' safety, quality, delivery, and cost priorities.
This role is eligible for a hybrid work schedule.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Establish daily management rhythms, standard work, and processes for a cross-functional team of Product Line and Engineering focals focused on sourcing outcomes.
- Support requests from Product Line teams. Coordinate efforts across six Sourcing commodities.
- Lead effort to align the GEnx Product Line and Sourcing strategies by using documented process.
- Provide visibility to upcoming contract expirations on hardware within the product lines and work proactively with the teams to determine the optimal go-forward strategy on that hardware.
- Identify the critical hardware for a given product line by evaluating the total cost impact of safety, quality, delivery, and cost. Work to build a strategic sourcing roadmap to mitigate SQDC risks.
- Understand the sourcing/supplier landscape and leverage that knowledge into product line sourcing strategy.
- Partner with engineering teams to create should costs on critical hardware. Understand our market position relative to should cost and create plans to drive cost reduction and abate cost increases on sourced hardware.
- Collaborate with commodity teams to create and improve productivity processes.
- Lead Problem Solving efforts across Sourcing organization.
- Participate in Product Line Cadences (example: Cost Daily Management)
- Project manage execution of de-risk geopolitical strategy'
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Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college + a minimum of 5 years of Sourcing and/or Product Line experience
Desired Characteristics:
- Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn
- Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively
- Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed
- Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
- Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker
- Strong commodity management skills
- Ability to build partnerships across many disparate functions and organizations
- Ability to establish credibility and lead through influence
- Experience in Lean process improvement
GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.
GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a "Sponsor"). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor's welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.
This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.
Additional Information
GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: No