North America Sourcing Executive, Hydro Power

GE Vernova•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

The Regional Sourcing Executive reports to the Hydro Executive Sourcing parts and is part of the North America Leadership teams. The role is responsible for sourcing performance for Hydro Projects in the region. It leads a large, diverse, multifunctional regional team across sourcing, procurement, materials management, supplier quality, logistics, and project supply chain management, and drives regional sourcing and supplier strategies aligned with business priorities, project demand, and global commodity strategies. The position owns regional project supply chain performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost in a complex, highly engineered project environment, supporting both Inquiry to Order (ITO) and Order to Remittance (OTR) phases.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of experience in supply chain, sourcing, procurement, or project execution in an industrial or project-based environment.
Experience leading large, multifunctional teams in a matrix organization.
Fluency in English.
Ability to operate effectively in a complex project business with multiple stakeholders.
Strategic mindset with strong execution discipline.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Strong leadership presence and ability to influence across functions and levels.
Proven ability to manage ambiguity, resolve issues, and drive decisions.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or Operations.
Experience in Hydro Power, Energy, EPC, or heavy industrial project businesses.
French language skills.

Responsibilities

Lead, develop, and inspire a large, diverse, multifunctional regional team across sourcing, procurement, materials management, supplier quality, logistics, and project supply chain management.
Foster a culture of safety, integrity, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring compliance with company policies, supplier integrity standards, trade compliance requirements, quality standards, and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Define and execute regional sourcing and supplier strategies aligned with business priorities, project demand, and global commodity strategies.
Own North America regional project supply chain performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost.
Drive supplier performance for Hydro projects globally supported by North America, including capacity planning, delivery prioritization, risk management, and recovery actions.
Strengthen supplier quality, delivery, competitiveness, and resilience through performance management and supplier development.
Identify, assess, and mitigate sourcing and supplier risks related to capacity, financial health, geopolitical exposure, logistics, quality, and single-source dependencies.
Deliver cost productivity through commercial negotiation, value engineering, should-cost analysis, and process improvement.
Partner with engineering, manufacturing, construction, and commissioning teams to drive design-to-cost and make/buy optimization opportunities.
Track and drive sourcing productivity, inflation management, and working capital improvement through effective payment terms and supplier collaboration.
Partner with project management, engineering, manufacturing, construction and commissioning, quality, finance, and commercial teams to meet customer and business commitments.