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Are you ready to see your future take flight? At GE Aerospace, we are advancing aviation technologies for today and tomorrow. Your work will contribute to the production of advanced jet engines, components, and integrated systems that power commercial and military aircraft. You’ll be part of a team that embraces your drive, your curiosity, and your unique ideas and perspectives. Most importantly, you’ll share in our pride and purpose that affects the lives of millions around the world!The Supplier Account Manager ensures hardware order coverage for future demand and leads supplier engagement regarding existing orders for owned suppliers within a commodity. Responsibilities include managing long-term agreement (LTA) execution action plans within the Commodity, leading non-LTA negotiations and deal reviews, and daily triage of supplier issues on current orders.
The Senior Supplier Account Managers will have additional responsibilities including Supplier Team Action Plan Ownership, supplier relationship management and CPM support. The role also involves cross-functional partnership with the Procurement Operations Center, the supplier team for your respective accounts, and other roles within the commodity and the organization to enable timely execution of strategic and process focused procurement activities.
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Company Overview
GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) is a global leader in aerospace propulsion, services, and integrated systems. Currently, it has approximately 44,000 in-service commercial aircraft engines worldwide. With a century-long history of innovation and profound industry expertise, GE Aerospace is committed to inventing the future of flight, lifting people up, and bringing them home safely.
Site Overview
For 45 years in China, GE Aerospace has committed to developing and investing in China’s aviation industry with reliable, efficient, sustainable, and outstanding products and services. GE Aerospace and its joint venture CFM have served more than 60 airline customers in the Greater China Region, with over 7700 engines in service and nearly 5000 engines on order. We are devoted to the market’s quality growth propelled by technological innovation and digitalization. Together with our partners, we are shaping a sustainable future of flight that helps the industry reach its carbon-neutral goal for the benefit of us all tomorrow.
The Ideal Candidate
- Responsible for progressing the activities of supplier selection, proposals and quotes, quote analysis, negotiation, business approvals, supply award, and contract authoring for parts procured outside of a long-term agreement.
- Accountable for strategic decision-making related to supplier order health for assigned supplier accounts
- Partners with supplier team and procurement operations to ensure compliance requirements are met for owned sourcing and procurement activities.
- Triages incoming supplier questions, issues, and requests for assigned supplier accounts
- Leads projects related to part procurement, or technical changes on parts requiring supplier engagement and support.
- Actively maintains market awareness and an in depth understanding of key business drivers to inform supplier selection
- Participates in ideation of contractual solutions to promote contract performance / total cost of ownership
- Utilizes technical knowledge, collaboration and judgement to solve problems
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience to provide coaching and training
- Conveys performance expectations and may handle sensitive issues with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Travel up to 10%
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university (or a high school diploma/GED with a minimum 4 years of experience in Commercial Operations, Sourcing/ Procurement, Supplier Relationship Management, Sales, Supply Chain or Contract Management roles)
A minimum 5 years of experience in Commercial Operations, Sourcing/ Procurement, Supplier Relationship Management, Sales, Supply Chain or Contract Management roles
Preferred Qualifications
- Acts with humility, seeks perspective of others, and creates an inclusive culture
- Delivers with focus on key business objectives, working across large matrixed organizations
- Leads with transparency to reach the best mutual outcomes for GE and GE partners
- Experience negotiating contracts with external suppliers
- Demonstrated ability in leveraging creative commercial solutions
- Demonstrated ability to build strong internal and external relationship
- Strong 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
At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
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