Job Description

The product manager will be responsible for providing product vision, roadmap, and execution strategy for Sourcing and Supplier applications within Gas Power and GE Vernova HQ. This role combines product management, business process understanding, application ownership, and cross-functional delivery leadership to ensure that Sourcing 360, and Supplier360 applications deliver measurable business value.

The role will act as the key link between business stakeholders, digital technology teams, operations, EHS/Quality/GSC Analytics teams, supply chain organization, and end users to define requirements, prioritize needs, translate requirements into scalable solutions, drive adoption, ensure performance, and continuous improvement of sourcing analytics applications in collaboration with partner teams.

Product Management

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for S360 and Supplier360 applications aligned with Gas Power and GE Vernova HQ business priorities, and SOX complaint.
• Demonstrates strategic expert level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Demonstrates excelling business acumen, knows latest industry trends and is looked at as an internal expert on the product as well as the associated competitive landscape.
• Collaborates with UX in design decisions. Conducts customer and stakeholder interviews and elaborates on personas.
• Demonstrate superior persuasion and influencing skills that ensure partnership with stakeholders, within single or across multiple sub-businesses, in logistics, material management, fulfillment, sourcing, operations, and Digital Technology value streams to identify business needs, define requirements with clear business benefits, and translate them into actionable product features (SQDCC, productivity etc), acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs.
• Demonstrates strategic level skills in problem decomposition and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Partner with stakeholders, within single or across multiple sub-businesses, in sourcing, GSC finance, Quality, Manufacturing, Vernova Data Lake (VDL) and Digital Technology value streams to identify business needs, define requirements with clear business benefits, and translate them into actionable product features (SQDCC, productivity etc), user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs.
• Act as single point of contact for stakeholders and data organization for Sourcing apps solutions, own stakeholder management and prioritization across single or multiple sub-businesses aligning
• with project management execution cycle, clear and proactive communication, governance, user adoption, lean product landscape, and value realization.
• Partner with analytics operations leader, and data organization, to align and suggest process improvements in ops and program execution.
• Conduct rhythmic cadences for prioritization of requirements, enhancements, defects, and releases in partnership with functional, governance, and technical teams to ensure timely and effective delivery using agile or hybrid delivery methods.
• Seek and partner to ideate opportunities to automate manual process to improve lineage of execution and productivity.
• Establish and monitor product and application performance metrics, user feedback, and support trends to identify improvement opportunities and guide continuous enhancement.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise requirements for data quality, cybersecurity, controls, compliance, and application governance.
• Support simplification, standardization, and operational rigor across Sourcing digital tools and processes, and problem-solving, and process optimization workshop.
• Drive measurable business impact through scalable, user-focused digital solutions that improve decision-making, process effectiveness, and operational performance.
• Lead the end-to-end AI product strategy and lifecycle for Sourcing, in consensus with AI leader for Sourcing and Logistics DT organization, by defining the long-term vision, roadmap, and high-value use cases aligned to business goals. Establish data requirements and metadata standards, ensure data quality, manage labeling processes, and oversee data pipelines that enable continuous model learning.
• Drive AI initiatives from ideation and data acquisition through model training, deployment, performance monitoring, and ongoing optimization, while incorporating market benchmarks to ensure competitiveness and impact.

Desired Characteristics

Technical Expertise:

• Experience working in Agile / SAFe methodology
• Experience with tools such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL, DBR, Postgres, SAP, Oracle, or similar enterprise platforms.
• Working knowledge of Big Data programming environments and Competency in major software packages and programming environments (AWS Cloud Computing Services, Python/Spark, Java etc)
• Expert proficiency in tools like ADO, SmartSheet, Miro, Excel, etc.
• Phenomenal communication and presentation skills w/ ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical individuals
• Facilitate prioritization discussions across competing stakeholder needs while maintaining focus on strategic outcomes.
• Own the communication with leadership and stakeholders about roadmap, risks, milestones, adoption, and value realization.

Business Acumen:

• Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternative technologies and approaches to solving problems
• Experience in Gas Power supply chain environment and application owner or product owner for operational or analytics apps platforms.
• Familiarity with ERP, supply chain systems, warehouse/logistics tools, and reporting platforms.
• Knowledge of operational management systems, lean principles, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong understanding of data governance, master data, meta data, and integration between transactional and analytics apps systems.
• Lead or participate in problem solving workshops for process or productivity improvements
• Has the ability to propose, analyze impact and recommend appropriate technical solutions
• Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the product development team
• Balances value propositions from competing stakeholders
• Demonstrates knowledge of technologies in the market to actively participate in buy vs build recommendations, drive market timing decisions and scope of MVPs

Leadership

• 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
• Ability to communicate analytical results in forms that resonate with the business collaborators, highlighting actionable insights
• Collaborate with GE Vernova Data Organization, Gas Power Analytics Program Team, various business stakeholders in — supply chain, fulfillment, sourcing value streams, other IT/DT teams , and external partner teams to establish high performing inclusive team for proactive seamless product development, enhancement, and operations.
• Build strong relationships with business leaders and end users to understand pain points and align product strategy with operational priorities.
• Effectively balances multiple, different and/or competing objectives
• Able to effectively direct and mentor team members with continuously improvement mindset.
• Own the communication with leadership and stakeholders about roadmap, risks, milestones, adoption, and value realization.
• PMP, ScrumMaster or related Project Management certifications

Governance, Risk, and Continuous Improvement

• Ensure compliance with enterprise digital, cybersecurity, data governance, and audit requirements – SOX as applicable.
• Support business continuity, access controls, application documentation, and operational support processes.
• Establish and maintain product governance mechanisms, including prioritization forums, release reviews, and KPI tracking.
• Drive standardization, simplification, and continuous improvement of S360 and Supplier360 applications.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or another STEM discipline, or equivalent experience/knowledge.
• Significant experience in product management, supply chain, logistics, material management, analytics / apps, or digital application ownership.
• Significant professional IT experience with demonstrated leadership in application operations, PMO management, or digital transformation.
• Experience with agile product management practices, backlog management, and release planning. The SAFe agile certification at advantage.
• Significant professional IT experience with demonstrated leadership in apps operations, PMO management, or digital transformation.
• Strong understanding of Lean methodologies, with experience applying them in complex, cross-functional IT environments.
• Ability to decompose problems and make decisions when problems or solutions are ambiguous.
• Self-Driven, autonomous, and can proactively identify and remove obstacles for organization.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing team members
• Highly effective communicator with experience in presenting and interacting with leadership.
• Experience in working across business and technical teams to deliver digital products, analytics apps solutions, or business application enhancements. Excellent teamwork skills with an ability to get the work done with minimal supervision
• Experience in establishing daily management, standard work, operating procedures, policies, service level agreements.
• Strong understanding of SQL based databases such as Oracle MySQL, PostgreSQL etc., analytics apps products, BI/reporting tools, and data-driven decision support.
• Demonstrates working knowledge of AWS Cloud and its services.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical deliverables and working with development teams.
• Proven success in establishing daily management systems, KPIs, and standard operating procedures for analytics / apps or IT service delivery
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional and multi-technical initiatives and influence stakeholders in matrixed organization.
• Strong knowledge in operations, including root cause problem-solving, and business continuity/disaster recovery planning.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, oral and written communication, and prioritization skills.
• Robust understanding of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related technologies

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, detail-oriented
• Effective team building and problem-solving abilities; Persists to completion, especially in the face of overwhelming odds and setbacks
• Pushes self for results; pushes others for results through team spirit and exhibiting role model behavior
• Mentor and coach team members
• Influences and energizes other toward the common vision and goal. Maintains excitement for a process and drives to new directions of meeting the goal even when odds and setbacks render one path impassable
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional and multi-technical initiatives and influence stakeholders in matrixed organization

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No