About the role

  • Global Purchasing Manager at GE Vernova overseeing purchasing strategies and supplier relationships. Leading teams to ensure optimal materials support for manufacturing locations while driving innovation.

Responsibilities

  • Define and improve purchasing strategies at a value-stream or site level, including management of regional and/or site teams
  • Owns purchasing-relevant master data management, maintenance, and related processes
  • Owns all site-specific and non-global quoting activities and processes, and improves Vendor On-Time Delivery for factories
  • Collaborates with site materials teams, segment materials teams, and strategic sourcing teams to ensure a cohesive supplier panel is available and used by site teams to meet business targets
  • As a senior leader within the materials management organization, responsible for mentoring talent and developing team members to take on broader responsibilities
  • Lead short-term projects or teams to drive continuous improvement
  • Define a holistic vendor strategy — prioritize non-global suppliers but coordinate with Global on areas of overlap
  • Reduce RFQ turnaround time to world-class levels and align with Purchasing teams’ needs for faster PR-to-PO conversion
  • Reduce vendor lead time and increase capacity
  • Establish daily management for RFQ TAT, spot negotiations, cost-out, and single/sole-source elimination projects
  • Create >25% additional capacity within the existing team through productivity improvement projects
  • Eliminate tail-end vendor fulfillment and sole-source risks
  • Drive non-global parts standardization with engineering
  • Manage outsourced special processes (OSP) supplier relationships and purchasing activities

Requirements

  • Degree from an accredited university or equivalent knowledge or experience
  • 10+ years' experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or sourcing
  • 8+ years' experience specifically in material planning or scheduling functions
  • Fluent English required
  • Engineering background preferred

Benefits

  • Variable incentive bonus: 15%

Job title

Global Purchasing Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$96,465 - $137,776 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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