Buyer Lead

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­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 Vernova helps customers 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 the Gas 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 Buyer Lead is responsible for partnering with the Events Management team on outage demand planning and fulfillment for a specific region, sub-region or country. Manages all Sourcing activities with both internal and external stakeholders including the vendor selection process from the existing supply chain, negotiating pricing structures with new suppliers as needed, applying our standard terms and conditions for moderate to complex purchase orders/contracts, monitoring supplier performance, and participating in ongoing vendor management as well as supply chain performance improvements. Ensures compliance with purchasing procedures and policies by reviewing and analyzing purchase requisitions for completeness and information accuracy, soliciting bids from the approved vendor list (AVL), creating purchase orders, and working with vendors to ensure all invoices are paid. Participates in executing continuous improvement projects, identifying process gaps in vendor data and payments, and determining problem statements for IT improvements.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Partner with Service Managers and Outage Managers on outage planning to identify and execute on the services & materials needed at each outage
• Negotiate local Master Service Agreements (MSA) with approved suppliers
• Manage all Sourcing activities with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and vendors within a specific country and/or sub-region
• Achieve lowest possible cost for services & materials, balanced against optimum quality and schedule needs
• Initiate necessary actions to ensure customer value is received, customer delivery requirements are met, and problems are addressed at outage sites or facilities
• Convert business function requisitions and statements of work to purchase orders based on customer contracts by selecting suppliers per policy, procedure, and prices
• Review, evaluate, and monitor purchase requisitions for proper authorization, specifications, and compliance prior to purchase order release
• Develop and maintain an effective vendor base to procure various services, equipment, materials, and supplies. Identify and select vendors from the approved vendor list to procure materials and/or services meeting criteria of price, quality, availability, and delivery
• Coordinate procurement activities for assigned commodities and/or countries. Ensure compliance with sourcing policies and procedures while updating and tracking information in ERP systems
• Facilitate resolution of goods receipts, invoice receipt and accounts payable issues (i.e. supplier bank detail updates, timely invoice submission, etc.)
• Identify new suppliers and understand local internal and external market dynamics impacting supply base
• Collaborate and partner with Project Procurement Leads or Sourcing Managers to provide data for strategy development, cost savings efforts, and associated reporting. Monitor large spend items and support regional team to suggest alternative approaches to reduce cost
• Participate in cross functional meetings with Lean, Quality, Process Improvement, AP, and others to streamline all Sourcing activities as needed. Coordinate training of suppliers to accomplish business initiatives needed
• 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 or diploma in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain Management
• Minimum 4 years of experience in a Sourcing or procurement role
• Experience with procurement and purchasing systems such as SAP, Ariba, etc.
• Knowledge of sourcing processes and/or materials management
• Strong computer skills, specifically Microsoft Office and MRP / ERP systems
• Familiarity with Accounts Payable concepts
• English proficiency required

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong oral and written communication
• Solid analytical skills and strong results-oriented aptitude, attention to detail and good organizational skills
• Skillful in establishing and maintaining working relationships with departments and suppliers
• Strong troubleshooting, problem solving and creative thought processing skills
• Subject matter expert for purchasing practices and procedures, including vendor qualification and performance monitoring

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 .