Global Procurement And Technical Support Team Leader | A&P Sourcing

Job Overview

Negotiate with dedicated providers according to specific policies. Achieve the best contractual conditions while also ensuring internal customer satisfaction. Interprets internal and external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services. Utilizes understanding of industry trends to inform decision making process.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own sourcing specific processes and tools. Review and improve processes. Work on special initiatives.
• Own the source to pay process for the A&P team. Ensure that FLIGHT DECK is being used to improve from current state, removing waste and making more efficient for both our commercial and fulfillment teams
• Partner with the Commercial and Business Sourcing Operations teams to ensure team members are effectively trained and improvements are put in place to drive efficiency gains
• Conduit between Sourcing Teams, Sourcing Compliance, and Product Lines to ensure proper processes meet changing demands of the company and lead efforts as required to minimize any GE risk
• Ensure business operations teams are partnered with entire Sourcing organization to drive fundamentals of FLIGHT DECK every day and aiding in problem solving
• Lead technical team of Engineers to drive proactive identification of right first-time risks and mitigate leading to both Delivery improvements as well as driving cost out with commercial teams
• Deploy team of Engineers to supplier Genba to ensure ready for rate and proper capacity in place to meet business needs
• Ensure Asia team is set up to meet growing LCC footprint and right resources are deployed to Genba to grow the region
• Lead capacity efforts, along with proper readiness activity in order to support the Sourcing Business Operating teams as well as ensuring new supplier development highlighted by commercial team is fit for business requirement
• Utilize data analytics in order to make end user jobs easier by removing waste and having global solutions to meet the business processes
• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity. Presents business solutions to leaders in functional area. Communicates complex messages and negotiates mainly internally with others to adopt a different point of view. Influences peers to take action and may negotiate with external partners, vendors, or customers

Required Qualifications

For applicants within the United States: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university (or a high school diploma/GED with at least 14 years of experience in Supply Chain, ideally Sourcing and Procurement) Minimum of 10 years of experience in Supply Chain, ideally Sourcing and Procurement For applicants within the United Kingdom: Must have major experience in Supply Chain, ideally Sourcing and Procurement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading process improvement efforts, setting standards, and ensuring standard work is in place
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.
• Souring, Shop Operations, or Manufacturing Engineering
• Manufacturing Experience in Aerospace or Automotive a plus
• Humble: respectful, inclusive, good listener, learns from past
• Transparent: candid in feedback, shares to solve problems, helps grow others
• Focused: safety first, prioritizes work, measures success by the customer, continuously improve

Relocation Assistance Provided

Yes