Job Description

Negotiate with dedicated providers according to specific policies. Achieve the best contractual conditions while also ensuring internal customer satisfaction. In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

Role Purpose/Summary

The Sourcing Manager is responsible for developing, implementing and leading the overall strategy focusing on China supplier localization, and product costout for Haliad-X. He/she will strategically lead Sourcing functions driving simplification, securing contractual agreements to meets business needs, and execution on activities to optimize cost, capacity, productivity & fulfillment through strategic supplier relationships.

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead the development & execution of long-term China sourcing strategies that deliver a competitive advantage for key Purchase Families/Commodities/Subassemblies including implementation of commodities/suppliers initiatives link to capacity, design to cost, modularization and fulfillment.
• Drive sourcing focus to reduce total landed costs by working with the Asia Renewable Sourcing team to leverage commodity synergies and supply chain execution for the Offshore business
• Lead China specific sourcing for buy and Material Cost Reduction target
• Build deep relationships with Strategic Suppliers Relationships driving early supplier engagement into GEV’s New Product Introduction (NPI) or Inquiry To Order (ITO) process, and long-term partnership or local content requirements for wing-to-wing product lifecycle.
• Coordinate with the Renewable Sourcing team the introduction and qualification of supplier’s performance and perform risk management on additional regional suppliers.
• Develop Supplier capacity demand & supply model to drive long term capacity needs.
• Drive a sourcing modularization strategy with strong partners to allow Manufacturing flexibility and bring down the BOM parts assembly to pre assembled modules
• Own the financials / budget tied to operational execution: product cost, Purchase Price variance, Capex/Opex cost… Monitor & improve cost productivity while ensuring all customer commitments are met in a timely, quality & compliant manner. Work with finance teams to analyze cost drivers, product cost actual/forecast and validate savings/deflations.
• Partner with Commercial, Product, Projects and Engineering teams to develop local suppliers as needed to achieve local content requirements
• Improve supplier qualification process, increase defect detection, and reduce COQ
• Ensure legal, financial and compliance risks are mitigated: Drive 100% compliance to sourcing policy and procedures, supplier approval, competitive bidding, delegation of authority approval…

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, or Finance
• Minimum of 10 year experience in Sourcing, Operations and/or Supply Chain background
• Excellent business/financial acumen, proficient in leading and setting direction for teams, including demonstrated ability to motivate, influence and drive change at all levels of the organization
• Excellent growth leadership skills demonstrating clear global perspective and understand factors impacting GE offshore businesses and our suppliers
• Influence/communication - establishes good relationships; drives change across functional & global boundaries

Desired Characteristics

• Comprehensive knowledge of Wind Offshore products & outstanding engine knowledge
• Extensive global experience leading cross-functional or geographically dispersed teams
• Proven Leadership skills in driving Global change across an organization, including strong Change Acceleration Process skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead courageously, maintaining a strong position amidst opposition to resolve important issues, and ability to navigate through a large complex business.
• Ability to successfully motivate and maintain high moral, employee involvement, safety and teamwork
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, teamwork & networking skills
• Familiarity with various engineering areas of manufacturing technology
• Ability to effectively manage changing and conflicting priorities and resolve appropriately
• Ability to effectively operate in matrixed organizational structure
• Highly motivated / results / metrics driven with demonstrated influencing skills
• Six Sigma trained with demonstrated ability to apply tools and process rigor

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes