Senior AI-Driven Sourcing Leader

GE Vernova; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova Gas Power Sourcing seeks a Senior Sourcing Manager to lead AI-enabled capabilities across the sourcing organization. You will translate sourcing challenges into scalable AI solutions, drive proof-of-concept pilots, and ensure secure, compliant deployment with measurable business impact.

You will partner with Digital Technology, AI Foundry, and legal/compliance teams, shaping an ambitious AI roadmap and standardized practices for value realization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• Significant experience in Sourcing, Supply Chain, Procurement Operations, Commercial Operations, Digital Transformation, Analytics, or a closely related business function.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives in a global, matrixed environment; driving change management and user adoption of new processes/tools.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into structured requirements, operating rhythms, project plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong understanding of sourcing processes, supplier management, RFx execution, contract lifecycle, spend analytics, compliance, and operational performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex information, identify root causes, develop practical recommendations, and influence stakeholders at multiple levels.
• Experience preparing leadership updates, executive summaries, business cases, and decision-support materials.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to simplify technical or analytical topics for non-technical business stakeholders.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Sourcing AI initiatives portfolio for Gas Power Sourcing, including opportunity identification, prioritization, business case development, execution governance, benefits tracking, and leadership reporting.
• Partner with Sourcing Operations leadership to define a practical AI roadmap across source-to-buy, supplier management, contract intelligence, cost forecasting, commercial escalation, RFx automation, spend analytics, compliance, and process productivity use cases.
• Translate complex sourcing pain points into clear problem statements, process maps, requirements, user stories, data needs, success metrics, and deployment plans for AI-enabled solutions.
• Serve as the business product owner or initiative leader for selected AI proof-of-concepts, pilots, and scaled deployments, ensuring alignment to business outcomes, standard work, and user adoption.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution with Digital Technology, Foundry / AI teams, data engineering, legal, compliance, cybersecurity, finance, project sourcing, commodity leaders, and external delivery partners. Lead the overall AI value stream for each use case, with clear benefit and value identification, and ensure value realization after production deployment.
• Drive responsible AI practices by ensuring appropriate data handling, access controls, validation, human-in-the-loop review, traceability, model output quality checks, and compliance with GE Vernova requirements.
• Build and maintain operating rhythms for AI initiative reviews, including portfolio dashboards, health status, risk and blocker escalation, milestone tracking, value realization, and executive updates.
• Apply Lean principles to simplify, standardize, and digitize sourcing processes before automation; ensure AI solutions reinforce standard work rather than automate process variation.
• Lead change management and adoption planning, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training, usage monitoring, feedback loops, and sustainment plans.
• Develop clear executive narratives that explain business value, tradeoffs, risks, adoption status, investment needs, and decision points for senior leadership.
• Use data and sourcing domain expertise to identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve sourcing cycle time, enhance supplier and contract insights, reduce cost leakage, and increase transparency across sourcing operations.
• Coach and influence global stakeholders in a matrixed environment, helping teams build AI fluency while maintaining accountability for business ownership and measurable outcomes.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Executive reporting

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

SAP

Ariba

Jaggaer

Sourcing 360

Tableau

Power BI

SharePoint

Job description

GE Vernova Gas Power Sourcing seeks a Senior Sourcing Manager to lead AI-enabled capabilities across the sourcing organization. You will translate sourcing challenges into scalable AI solutions, drive proof-of-concept pilots, and ensure secure, compliant deployment with measurable business impact.

You will partner with Digital Technology, AI Foundry, and legal/compliance teams, shaping an ambitious AI roadmap and standardized practices for value realization.