Remote Logistics Portfolio Leader

CP1367 GE Grid Solutions, LLC

United States

Remote

USD 98,000 - 164,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with company matching

Job summary

GE Vernova is seeking a Logistics Portfolio Manager to lead transportation strategy, sourcing, governance, and logistics execution across a portfolio of domestic and international projects. You will guide project logistics teams, review tender assumptions, and ensure alignment with schedules, budgets, and contractual commitments throughout ITO to OTR transitions.

The role requires strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
Minimum of 10–12 years of progressive experience in project logistics, transportation, supply chain, or a related field.
Demonstrated people‑leadership experience, including direct responsibility for employee performance, development, workload management, and resource allocation.
Experience supporting large‑scale industrial, infrastructure, energy, utility, data‑center, or capital‑project environments.
Experience managing domestic and international multimodal transportation activities.
Demonstrated experience with transportation sourcing, carrier negotiations, contract development, supplier management, and logistics execution.
Experience managing multiple complex projects or a portfolio of projects with competing priorities, risks, and resource requirements.
Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally based on business and project requirements.

Responsibilities

Directly lead and develop the Project Logistics Managers, Logistics Specialists, and Logistics Coordinators assigned to the portfolio.
Manage employee performance, development, workload, priorities, and resource allocation across the assigned logistics organization.
Provide coaching, mentoring, performance feedback, development planning, and succession planning for direct-report logistics personnel.
Assign logistics resources based on project complexity, risk, schedule, workload, customer requirements, and required technical expertise.
Establish portfolio priorities and ensure adequate logistics support is available throughout the project lifecycle.
Monitor team capacity and proactively address resource constraints, capability gaps, and competing project priorities.
Establish operating rhythms, governance reviews, escalation protocols, and performance expectations across the portfolio.
Provide leadership visibility into project status, logistics performance, emerging risks, supplier capacity, resource constraints, and required business decisions.
Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, customer focus, knowledge sharing, safety, and continuous improvement.
ITO Project Logistics Leads in developing logistics concepts, budgetary freight estimates, transportation schedules, sourcing strategies, execution assumptions, and risk assessments for tender opportunities.
Review and challenge proposed logistics plans, estimates, schedules, and assumptions to help ensure solutions are commercially competitive, operationally feasible, and executable.
Provide portfolio-level transportation market intelligence, carrier capacity information, historical cost data, lessons learned, and execution feedback to support ITO planning.
Support the establishment of logistics estimating methodologies, transportation planning standards, governance requirements, and approval processes for tender activities.
Ensure logistics assumptions appropriately address transportation modes, routing, route surveys, permits, escorts, port and rail requirements, site access, unloading, storage, customs, Incoterms, and other project-specific risks.
Partner with the ITO Project Logistics Leads and Commercial teams to align proposed logistics solutions with customer requirements, project schedules, contractual obligations, and business objectives.
Support the review of complex, high-value, oversized, or high-risk transportation strategies before tender submission.
Ensure lessons learned from OTR execution are communicated to the ITO Project Logistics Leads and incorporated into future estimating and planning activities.
Lead or participate in formal logistics handover reviews between the ITO Project Logistics Leads and the OTR logistics organization.
Partner with Project Execution teams to validate final shipment scope, equipment dimensions and weights, transportation requirements, delivery schedules, site constraints, and logistics execution requirements.
Confirm that differences between tender assumptions and final project requirements are identified, evaluated, documented, and escalated as necessary.
Ensure project-specific logistics plans, sourcing strategies, budgets, schedules, milestones, risk registers, and execution requirements are established following project award.
Coordinate with Project Logistics Managers, Logistics Specialists, and Logistics Coordinators to ensure successful transportation sourcing, award, mobilization, and execution readiness.
Conduct or support logistics feasibility reviews, transportation assessments, supplier-readiness reviews, and operational evaluations.
Ensure transportation providers meet contractual, safety, quality, insurance, regulatory, and operational requirements before award and execution.
Maintain portfolio-level oversight of logistics execution from project award through final delivery.
Ensure Project Logistics Managers, Logistics Specialists, and Logistics Coordinators perform their assigned responsibilities in accordance with established processes, governance requirements, project commitments, and performance expectations.
Review and approve logistics execution strategies for complex, high-value, oversized, or high-risk projects in accordance with established authorization levels.
Monitor portfolio-level logistics cost, schedule, risk, supplier performance, and execution readiness.
Ensure project teams maintain accurate logistics plans, shipment trackers, budgets, forecasts, milestones, risk registers, and performance reports.
Monitor critical logistics milestones and intervene when transportation, supplier, capacity, commercial, customs, site-readiness, or schedule risks threaten project commitments.
Lead or support the resolution of complex transportation, supplier, capacity, commercial, contractual, and project escalations.
Establish corrective-action plans and ensure timely resolution of issues affecting cost, schedule, service, safety, quality, or customer satisfaction.
Ensure appropriate communication and coordination among logistics personnel, project teams, suppliers, carriers, manufacturing facilities, and jobsites.
Consolidate transportation demand across multiple projects to develop portfolio sourcing strategies that optimize capacity, leverage buying power, and improve cost competitiveness.
Oversee the development and issuance of RFQs to carriers, freight forwarders, heavy-haul providers, and other logistics service providers supporting domestic and international requirements.
Review carrier bid analyses, commercial evaluations, cost comparisons, capability assessments, and supplier risk profiles.
Develop or approve transportation award recommendations in accordance with established authorization levels and governance requirements.
Lead negotiations of transportation rates, capacity commitments, service requirements, and commercial terms with carriers and logistics providers.
Oversee the development of Statements of Work, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and transportation contracts in partnership with Sourcing, Procurement, Legal, and Project teams.
Ensure suppliers comply with contractual, insurance, safety, quality, regulatory, and operational requirements.
Establish clear performance expectations and service requirements for carriers, freight forwarders, and other logistics providers.
Monitor carrier performance and ensure corrective actions are implemented when suppliers do not meet service, cost, schedule, safety, quality, or compliance expectations.
Partner with Corporate Logistics, Sourcing, and Procurement teams to expand and strengthen strategic carrier and freight-forwarder networks.
Identify, assess, qualify, and onboard transportation providers supporting specialized project cargo, heavy haul, superloads, over-dimensional cargo, breakbulk, rail, ocean, and multimodal transportation.
Develop long-term transportation sourcing strategies focused on capacity assurance, service reliability, risk reduction, supplier diversification, and cost competitiveness.
Establish and maintain strategic supplier relationships and support supplier-development initiatives.
Monitor transportation market conditions, carrier capacity, freight trends, regulatory developments, port and rail conditions, and other industry factors that may affect portfolio execution.
Develop alternative routing, modal, carrier, and contingency strategies to strengthen supply-chain resilience.
Identify opportunities to establish master agreements, preferred-supplier arrangements, and longer–term commercial agreements with qualified transportation providers.
Manage and monitor logistics budgets, transportation forecasts, actual costs, financial commitments, and cost-to-complete across the assigned portfolio.
Review project logistics costs against approved budgets and ensure material variances are identified, explained, and addressed.
Drive transportation cost optimization, freight-spend reduction, demand consolidation, and cost-avoidance initiatives.
Identify and mitigate transportation, customs, supplier, capacity, commercial, regulatory, site-readiness, and broader supply-chain risks.
Develop contingency plans that support transportation continuity and execution reliability.
Establish and monitor logistics KPIs, including freight spend, budget performance, carrier performance, on-time delivery, transit time, lead time, milestone adherence, and service levels.
Use performance data and portfolio analytics to identify trends, improve decision‑making, and implement corrective actions.
Provide regular portfolio performance updates to Logistics Leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders.
Support Transportation Management System implementation, shipment visibility, logistics technology, operational reporting, and digital‑transformation initiatives.
Utilize analytics and reporting tools to improve logistics planning, transportation sourcing, portfolio management, and procurement decisions.
Establish collaboration and feedback loops between the ITO Project Logistics Leads and OTR logistics teams to capture lessons learned and improve future planning and execution.
Standardize logistics processes, templates, planning tools, governance practices, KPIs, and operational reporting.
Drive continuous‑improvement initiatives focused on execution readiness, operational efficiency, cost competitiveness, supplier performance, and supply‑chain resilience.
Support organizational change‑management initiatives and cross‑functional process improvements.
Promote consistent use of approved logistics systems, tools, processes, and documentation standards across the portfolio.
Support organizational change‑management initiatives and cross-functional process improvements.
Promote consistent use of approved logistics systems, tools, processes, and documentation standards across the portfolio.