Executive - Aero Services Commercial Leader

GE Vernova • Houston, TX

5d • Remote

About The Position

The Aero Services Global Commercial Leader is accountable for driving global commercial excellence, growth, and profitability across the Aero Services business. This role leads global commercial operations—including sales support, pricing strategy, competitive intelligence, and deal underwriting—while partnering closely with Pole ITR, supply chain, and fulfillment organizations to deliver disciplined, value-driven growth. The leader operates in a constrained supply and complex market environment, balancing demand creation, pricing discipline, and execution risk to optimize long-term value. The role is responsible for strategic and tactical commercial outcomes across a ~$1B+ business today with significant growth and margin expansion targets.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Engineering, Finance or Business Management from an accredited college or university
• Minimum 8 years' experience in Sales and/or associated Commercial functions (i.e. Comm Ops, Application Engineering or Contract Management, etc.)

Nice To Haves

• Exceptional oral and written communication skills
• Aero experience
• Business strategy experience
• People leadership experience
• Strong influencing skills across a matrixed organization
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems
• Strong customer service mindset

Responsibilities

• Lead a globally distributed team of commercial professionals across Americas, EMEA, and Asia
• Set and execute the global commercial strategy aligned with Aero Services growth and profitability objectives
• Drive consistent commercial operating cadence, governance, and decision-making across regions
• Own commercial processes, tools, and policy frameworks to enable scalable execution
• Develop and expand new channels and commercial pathways to drive Aero demand creation
• Identify and capture new market opportunities including emerging segments (e.g., data centers, hyperscalers)
• Balance share defense in core markets with expansion into higher-growth adjacencies
• Build a robust commercial pipeline aligned with long-range financial targets
• Lead global pricing strategy, competitive intelligence, and deal structuring
• Establish advanced underwriting frameworks incorporating delivery risk, cost, and capacity constraints
• Drive margin expansion through disciplined deal selection and pricing governance
• Manage portfolio trade-offs between legacy contracts and premium-priced growth opportunities
• Standardize and optimize commercial processes across Poles to drive efficiency and consistency
• Lead proposal strategy and execution for complex, global deals
• Implement tools and analytics to improve forecasting, pipeline quality, and conversion
• Drive transformation of commercial operations to reduce risk, leakage, and inefficiencies
• Align commercial commitments with supply chain and operational realities
• Embed risk management into deal structures to mitigate margin leakage and execution losses
• Allocate constrained capacity to highest-value opportunities
• Lead cross-functional alignment across commercial, supply chain, and fulfillment organizations
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing global commercial organization (~35+ HC)
• Drive talent development, succession planning, and performance management
• Foster a culture of accountability, customer focus, and disciplined execution
• Provide leadership on strategic priorities and cross-functional initiatives

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• prescription drug coverage
• access to Health Coach from GE Vernova, a 24/7 nurse-based resource
• access to the Employee Assistance Program, providing 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services
• GE Vernova Retirement Savings Plan, a tax-advantaged 401(k) savings opportunity with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
• access to Fidelity Executive Services
• tuition assistance
• adoption assistance
• paid parental leave
• disability benefits
• life insurance
• 12 paid holidays
• permissive time off
• Restoration Plan, a nonqualified plan with company credits on eligible pay above IRS limits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive