Job Description Summary

GE Gas Power
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Access to affordable, reliable, flexible, and sustainable power is fundamental to modern life. As the world is shifting towards a lower carbon future, GE Gas Power is ready to be your partner in leveraging the role of natural gas for powering the world today and tomorrow. GE’s foundations were laid by Thomas Edison nearly 130 years ago to provide innovative solutions for a wide range of critical problems around the world. GE’s deep-rooted culture serves as the backbone for every step we’ve taken at GE Gas Power. With more than 300,000 employees and operations in over 170 countries, GE employees reflect both the local communities we serve and the people with whom we do business.

Diversity at GE
We believe diversity makes us more competitive and creates value for our customers, shareholders, and employees. We believe in the value of each person’s unique identity, background, and experiences and are committed to fostering an inclusive culture, where everyone feels empowered to do their best work because they feel accepted, respected, and that they belong. By embracing diverse teams and perspectives, we are better equipped to build a world that works.

Our approach to diversity will be based on the following objectives:

• Our employees – to continue to strive to ensure that our workforce is as diverse as the communities we serve, while always upholding the importance of merit.
• Our workplace – to foster an inclusive culture that recognizes employees’ unique needs, helps them reach their full potential, and nurtures their diverse talents.
• Our community – to strive for diversity in suppliers and partners and engage with the communities in which we operate to support diversity.

The Project Sourcing Tendering Manager will be responsible for performing/leading sourcing activities for assigned Gas Power Projects (Complex Projects and Extended Scope Projects) including Aero services in ITO phase & supporting OTR sourcing team as required in the MEASA region. This role will focus on Gas Turbine, Steam Turbine, Generator, Boiler, AQCS & BOP scope, including Services sourcing activities for Aero.

The Project Tendering Manager demonstrates leadership in driving sourcing programs, and processes in the Projects business working with Application Engineering, Commercial & PMO team to meet customer needs. The successful candidate will have the goal to achieve lowest possible cost for Materials, Parts, Services, EPC scope balanced against optimum quality and schedule needs of the project. He / She will be responsible to solicit and evaluate proposals employing appropriate negotiation, cost and price analysis techniques. Implement purchase contracts following applicable company guidelines

The Project Tendering Manager will demonstrate leadership in driving sourcing programs, and processes for the Projects business working with Application & Commercial team to meet customer needs in the region.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Project Tendering Manager will partner with ITO Application & Commercial teams – Project Managers to ensure externally sourced scope is purchased at the best price, and quality and that it ships on time to meet required need dates. Sourcing representative on the proposal team in ITO to ensure compliant and competitive proposals. Ensure sourcing inputs to the proposal are timely, accurate and reflect needed scope.
• Responsible for supplier selection, preparation of request for quotations using the digital platforms to process RFQ’s and all related communication with suppliers. This will involve close coordination with Engineering, PMO and suppliers (EPC’s and OEM’s) to understand project scope requirements. Together with the discipline/package expert (PMO or Engineering), prepare bidders lists and work with suppliers for bid clarification and/or kick-off meetings if required and facilitate such meetings. Solicit and evaluate proposals employing appropriate negotiation, cost and price analysis techniques.
• Responsible for leading negotiation of contracts (purchasing agreement and contract of works) for external sourcing of services and materials of complex project scopes using expertise from supporting organizations like contracts, legal and insurance teams. Ensure appropriate business approvals are obtained as per DOA prior to final contract negotiations following applicable company and regulations.
• Manage the resolution of any other issues impacting externally sourced scope including checking of contract fulfillment, complaints and claim management. Drive CCFQ (cost, compliance, fulfillment, quality). Ensure quality team is involved early stages.
• Sourcing Fulfillment of GT, ST, Gen, Boiler & related MSD scope. Work with Parts Sourcing Fulfillment Team to set sourcing strategy, identify compliance requirements and prioritize expediting of parts and materials.
• Ensure supplier payments, close open PO’s, deal with AP holds and payment updates to suppliers. Responsible for PMO dashboard updates, metrics and weekly KPI’s follow up.
• Coordinate with Regional Strategic Sourcing Key Commodity Leaders on supplier selection & strategy. Log and get approvals for deflation/inflation workflow for every RFQ created, drive projects deflation with accurate record keeping.
• Ensure compliance of the offers specifications, schedule, quality and contractual terms. Sourcing single point of contact for Project Management and close co-operation with the project execution team and individual departments, especially commercial manager, legal, engineering, quality, EHS, and finance. Work with respective Supplier Quality Engineers to ensure the use of qualified suppliers and to resolve supply chain issues.
• Achieve lowest possible cost for material, balanced against optimum quality and schedule needs

  • Solicit and evaluate proposals employing appropriate negotiation, cost and price analysis techniques
  • Implement purchase contracts following applicable company guidelines

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in supply chain, sourcing, engineering or field engineering role in power generation industry. Familiarity with GT, ST, Gen, Boiler & related BOP and Aero components or graduation from GE LP program like CLP/ EEDP / SCDP.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% to time, domestically and internationally.
• Proficient in MS Office applications including Outlook, Excel, Word and Power Point.
• Oracle/SAP ERP purchasing system experience.
• Excellent communication skills including reading and interpreting contractual documents.
• Advanced knowledge with procurement and sourcing processes in tender and execution stage, expertise in preparation of cost calculation, ability of analytical evaluation of data.
• Good knowledge of the concepts of Purchasing Agreements and Contracts for Work.
• Strong verbal and written skills in English

Desired Characteristics

• Financial and business acumen, Familiarity with Sourcing quality process
• Engineering Degree will be an added advantage
• Strong Functional knowledge in sourcing with practical implementation of sourcing skill set will be a big boost
• Demonstrated program and/or project management skills
• Familiarity with different organizations & responsibilities within EPC Construction companies
• Demonstrated ability to be effective in a cross-functional, cross-cultural team environment
• Experience with Risk and Claim Management
• Six Sigma training is preferred (GE employees only)

Additional Information

#LI-Remote – This is a remote position