Senior Sourcing Staff Manager - Commodity Management

GE Aerospace•St. George, UT

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Intergalactic, now a part of Unison, a GE Aerospace Company, is seeking a Senior Sourcing Staff Manager - Commodity Management. This role involves negotiating with dedicated providers, ensuring contractual conditions are met, and maintaining internal customer satisfaction. The position requires interpreting business challenges and recommending improvements to products, processes, or services, while staying informed of industry trends.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related field.
10+ years progressive experience in purchasing, materials management, or similar roles.
5+ years in a management role.
Ability to lead and motivate cross functional teams to deliver and implement sourcing events.
Drive to execute under extreme deadline pressures and with multiple priorities.
Strong oral and written communication skills including ability to present to executive leadership.
Demonstrated project management skills to document, plan, and execute programs and identify and resolve roadblocks for execution.
Ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status.

Nice To Haves

Strong experience in working with financial information as a means of decision making, pricing comparisons & benchmarking.
Knowledge of information technologies and services including software licensing models for SaaS and AI models.

Responsibilities

Define supplier strategy, including management and optimization of supplier panels.
Lead negotiations and allocate needs to specific suppliers.
Negotiate terms and conditions and transmit information to Procurement.
Manage claims.
Includes commercial sourcing management such as data analysis, negotiations support, etc.
This may also include purchasing activities.
Manages a small to medium team of senior professionals.
Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise within their discipline.
May require strong commercial awareness, and is expected to influence the development of strategy within own area, including control of resources and influences policy formulation.
May lead functional teams or projects with minimal resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.
Communicates difficult concepts and may influence others' options on particular topics.
May guide others to consider a different point of view.
Impacts the team's ability to achieve service, quality and timeliness of objectives.
Work is subject to functional policy objectives.
Regularly advises management in the function and/or in the business.
Has a supportive role in decision making about important subjects.
High levels of evaluative judgment are required to achieve outcomes required.
Uses high level of judgment to make decisions and handle complex tasks or problems that impact the function.
Has ability to assess quality of information given and ask pertinent questions to stakeholders.
Able to offer new solutions to problems outside of set parameters and is able to construct and provide recommendations.
Uses multiple internal and some external sources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
Access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace
Employee Assistance Program
GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions
Access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants
Tuition assistance
Adoption assistance
Paid parental leave
Disability insurance
Life insurance
Paid time-off for vacation or illness
Annual discretionary bonus