Sourcing Operations Director Remote, Mexico

FieldCore; Massachusetts; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

FieldCore seeks a Sourcing Operations Director I to enhance efficiency in sourcing operations and drive standardization across functional teams. The role requires a deep understanding of sourcing practices, excellent project management skills, and the ability to operate in a complex, international environment. Candidates must possess strong problem-solving abilities and a proven track record in supplier management and team leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive sourcing and supply chain experience required.
• 5+ years managing multi-discipline teams, preferably internationally.
• Understanding of supplier management and development of sourcing platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operations of sourcing activities metrics.
• Design and manage sourcing dashboards for operational efficiency.
• Lead sourcing initiatives including supplier events and digitization projects.

Skills

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Project management

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, or related area

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Excel

Job description

About GE Vernova:
GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernovahelpscustomers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.

GE Vernova’s Gas Power business engineers advanced, efficient natural gas-powered technologies and services, along with decarbonization solutions that aim to help electrify a lower carbon future. As part of theGas Power One Field Services team, FieldCore installs, maintains, and upgrades power generation equipment, enabling operators of the world’s energy infrastructure to provide more reliable and affordable energy.

Job Summary:

The Sourcing Operations Director I is responsible for developing and driving standard operating processes, procedures, and practices across the sourcing organization to simplify, streamline, and increase overall efficiency. This position leads a team that creates and manages the tools, processes, reports, and systems used within Sourcing. This role partners with each functional organization and each global Region Operations team to drive continuous improvement.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Owns day-to-day operations and reporting of delivery of all operating metrics as it relates to field sourcing activities (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost) as a part of the broader global thread
• Design, develop, and manage the sourcing Tableau suite of dashboards to help drive clear Leader Standard Work and Daily Management for regions, including aggregation of data and partnership with Data & Analytics to build strong reporting/monitoring infrastructure with leading indicators
• Drive and implement standardization and global standard operating processes and practices by partnering with internal stakeholders including Operations, Value Stream, and Region leadership, utilizing effective change management techniques
• Leads sourcing initiatives and projects including supplier events, digitization projects, and projects to support SQDC KPI’s
• Manage Supplier Quality process and initiatives in partnership with corporate GE Gas Power supplier quality team
• Creates and manages process standards with both sourcing and regional execution teams, including as part of the Plan-Execute-Closeout phases of outages
• Lead and support sourcing directors to build, own, and drive the overall sourcing Bowler, Action Plan, and Kaizen calendar, including individual 1-pagers for each relevant KPI
• Develop, implement, and track supplier assurance actions to meet or exceed supplier Quality and EHS performance and compliance standards
• Manage and maintain the development, on-going facilitation of end-to-end Sourcing platforms utilized as functional sourcing enablers to increase operational efficiencies and expediate supplier sourcing time to market (i.e., e-RFx, e-Catalog, SRM, etc.)
• Support sourcing GM in driving operating rigor in the team to deliver SQDC metrics to support the business team
• Travel may be required
• You may be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our FieldCore vision and align with our organization’s core values.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, or similar related area, or equivalent
• 10+ years of progressive and demonstrable sourcing and supply chain or related experience
• 5+ years managing and developing multi-discipline teams, preferably with international reach across multiple service types
• Must possess understanding of supplier management and sourcing practices as well as with large-scale system sourcing platforms development and/or implementations
• Demonstrated ability to effectively engage cross-functional and cross-regional teams in the collaboration and delegation of required activities and ability to lead by influence
• English proficiency required

Desired Characteristics:

• Advanced degree preferred
• Ability to work autonomously and manage priorities and objectives with minimal supervision
• Ability to prioritize and execute on goals and objectives in a fast-paced environment given multiple demands/requirements
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, along with creative thought leadership skills
• Effective project management skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, including ability to influence and negotiate in a matrixed organizational structure
• Ability to work well across international time-zones and partner effectively with diverse cultures, talents and varied skillsets
• Attention to detail and outstanding organizational skills
• Depth of knowledge and broad business acumen across multiple industries and/or functional areas including various commodity/category areas
• Excellent computer skills in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, including the ability to generate and work with Excel models

FieldCore is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, ancestry, genetic information, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.