NPI Program Manager – PAC Product Development

GE Vernova

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

GE Vernova is seeking an exceptional NPI Program Manager to join their Grid Automation and Software team. This role is responsible for leading the execution of New Product Introduction (NPI) programs across the Protection, Automation, and Control (PAC) portfolio. The position focuses on overseeing a portfolio of product development projects from early assessment and initiation through to commercial launch. The NPI Program Manager will ensure alignment, visibility, governance, execution discipline, and timely escalation across these projects. This role involves close collaboration with various departments including Product Management, R&D, Engineering, Industrialisation, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, Sales, Services, and regional teams. The individual will act as a key execution focal point, removing blockers, ensuring alignment among project managers and workstreams, tracking program health, supporting decision-making, and keeping senior stakeholders informed through clear reporting and governance. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in complex, global, matrix environments, brings structure to ambiguity, and can align diverse stakeholders.

Requirements

Significant experience leading complex technical projects, product development programmes or engineering programmes.
Strong experience in New Product Introduction, product development, technical programme management or software/digital product programme management.
The ability to manage multiple concurrent projects or workstreams while balancing competing priorities.
A strong understanding of product development lifecycles, stage-gate governance and structured programme execution.
Experience working across globally distributed teams in a matrix organisation.
The ability to influence without direct authority, building alignment across technical, operational, commercial and regional stakeholders.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to provide clear, concise and business-relevant updates to senior leaders.
Strong risk management, issue resolution, planning and stakeholder management capability.
Experience using project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet or similar.
Professional fluency in spoken and written English.
Willingness and ability to travel internationally as required.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business or a related technical discipline.
Minimum 10 years of experience leading technical projects or engineering teams.
Minimum 5 years of experience managing complex New Product Introduction, product development or technical programme management initiatives.
Demonstrated success delivering complex cross-functional programmes in industrial, electrical, software, automation, energy, digital, electronics, telecoms, automotive, medical devices or similar technical environments.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration or a related discipline.
PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-PgMP, Agile or equivalent programme/project management certification.
Experience within electric utilities, power systems, protection and control, substation automation or industrial digitalisation.
Familiarity with hardware/software integrated product development and global product launches.
Experience working in multinational engineering organisations.

Responsibilities

Lead programme-level execution across a portfolio of NPI and product development initiatives within the PAC portfolio.
Oversee project execution from early assessment, planning and stage-gate governance through to launch readiness and commercial release.
Ensure project managers and workstreams are aligned on priorities, milestones, deliverables, dependencies and critical decisions.
Coordinate cross-functional activity across Product Management, R&D, Engineering, Industrialisation, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, Sales, Services and regional teams.
Remove execution barriers, facilitate timely decision-making and escalate critical issues where required.
Establish and maintain integrated programme plans covering technical development, industrialisation, validation, certification, manufacturing readiness and commercial launch.
Monitor programme health through milestone tracking, schedule performance, budget monitoring, risk management and executive reporting.
Build and maintain programme risk registers, identifying technical, operational, commercial, regulatory, supply chain and resource risks.
Organise programme reviews, gate reviews, steering committee meetings and senior stakeholder updates.
Coordinate launch readiness activities, including manufacturing readiness, training, documentation, certifications, product data, service enablement and commercial release.
Support the transition from development into sustaining operations.
Contribute to continuous improvement of NPI governance, execution methodology, planning practices and programme management processes across the portfolio.