Principal Program Manager – Contract Margin & Cost Productivity

GE Vernova•Atlanta, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Principal Program Manager CMR and Cost Productivity, you will be responsible for leading a strategic transformation program that enables the vision of real-time Contract Margin Assessment and Cost Productivity for the Gas Power Contractual Services business line. This role will drive a cross-functional roadmap spanning business process simplification, data quality, systems integration, and workflow automation to improve margin visibility, reduce non-value added hours, and support faster, better operational and financial decisions. This is a high-impact leadership role requiring strong partnership across IT, Finance, CSA Risk, Services Cost & Productivity, Services Operations, Commercial, and CS Business line teams. The leader will help move the organization from reactive, manual cost administration to proactive, intelligence-driven cost management and margin control.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.
Significant experience in IT program management, product/program delivery, business transformation, or enterprise systems implementation.
Experience leading large, cross-functional, business-critical IT transformation programs in a complex matrixed environment.
Demonstrated experience partnering across business, finance, operations, and IT organizations.
Strong understanding of program governance, roadmap planning, dependency management, risk management, and executive stakeholder communication.
Strong knowledge of contract margin, cost, forecasting, billing, service operations, or contract-driven business processes.
Experience with digital transformation involving enterprise platforms, data integration, workflow automation, and analytics.

Nice To Haves

Experience in industrial, energy, services, field operations, finance transformation, or ERP-connected operational ecosystems.
Familiarity with Contractual services applications like AMP, ConFIRM, Catalog, MyFleet, BLD and Escalation Factor
Familiarity with SAP/Alpha ERP-connected processes, operational finance, event/project costing, and service execution workflows.
Experience working with AI-enabled business processes, intelligent automation, or data/analytics-led process redesign.
PMP, PgMP, Agile, Lean, or related program/project certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end program roadmap for real-time contract margin and cost productivity.
Drive the vision of Integrated CS Platform by partnering with CS Value Stream and IT Product/Process Leads.
Align business and IT stakeholders on priorities, scope, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
Drive simplification and digitization of margin review, event cost management, commentary, and related workflows.
Improve data quality and integration across key platforms supporting contract, event, cost, billing, and inventory processes.
Establish strong governance, execution rigor, dependency management, and executive reporting.
Deliver measurable improvements in productivity, margin transparency, cycle time, and manual effort reduction.
Partners with IT Development team to ensure healthy development process.
Mentors junior team members.
Provide technical leadership to TPMs across organization.
Expert in Agile Methodology: Coaches others.

Benefits

medical, dental, vision, and 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 resources and financial planning consultants
tuition assistance
adoption assistance
paid parental leave
disability benefits
life insurance
12 paid holidays
permissive time off