GE Recruits Specialist 1 - Supplier Management

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GE is recruiting to fill the below position of:

Job Title: Specialist 1 - Supplier Management

Job Number: 1745257
Location: IIkoyi - Lagos, Nigeria

Role Summary/Purpose:
Liase with department leader and global commodity managers to execute the indirect commodity strategy as the local owner to achieve deflation, cash flow, and controllership goals

Essential Responsibilities:

• Manage supplier contracts, supply agreements, and e-auctions with preferred suppliers to ensure that market trends, supplier performance, and future business needs are aligned
• Execute global commodity contracts for a moderate group of suppliers, with varying levels of complexity
• Manage competitive negotiations to drive deflation with the global supply base, while meeting capacity and quality requirements
• Evaluate and select new suppliers, develop existing suppliers, and overall supplier management
• Define and drive use of preferred suppliers plus develop alternate sources to reduce single and sole sources
• Interacts with site teams to understand business needs and develop supply chain strategies that optimize total requirements
• Collaborate with supporting resources (engineering, quality, global supply chain, and regional teams) to achieve plan, ensure adequate cycle time to procure material and services, and escalate critical materials from supplier base to meet customer demands
• Develop technical and market expertise in commodity area
• Enforce business policies to meet business targets and customer needs, including improving procurement processes and optimizing Sourcing resources to enhance the customer experience with Sourcing
• Closely monitor supplier performance to plan and work with the suppliers to manage any required recovery plans / actions
• Hold regular reviews with suppliers
• Conduct Capacity Audits; track any Red Flags that impede supplier performance and control revisions at Suppliers
• Ensure any quality issues have the appropriate focus
• Develop process to look upstream for pending requirements to ensure sourcing given adequate cycle to procure material
• Support the company’s business strategy as defined through G&Os and business operating mechanisms.
• Coordinate identification and standardization of process, equipment, training and skill requirements
• Drive process and operational optimization at suppliers to meet fulfilment targets
• Drive sourcing initiatives (fulfilment, cost productivity, lead times, capacity, digitization, quality)
• Communicate at all levels of a matrix organization on implementation status
• Perform all other business related tasks as assigned

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited college university
• Minimum of 2 years in Supply Chain and or operational roles
• Knowledge of GE Oil & Gas, Power & Water products and services
• Demonstrated ability to work with internal and external customers
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Willingness and ability to travel regionally and globally

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
Desired Characteristics:

• Demonstrated negotiation skills, contracting expertise, and business law knowledge
• Working knowledge of sourcing buy to pay processes
• Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills
• Proactive self-starter and change agent
• Cross functional, matrixed, and international team experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Effectively communicate across all organizational levels, departments, and functions
• Proven project management and process improvement skills
• Aptitude with analytical tools (ex. Excel, Access); specific skills should include: data-mining, pivot tables, data manipulation
• Ability to perform scenario analysis
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills
• Demonstrated success in working in a multifunctional / matrix team as part of a solution based service process
• Proven ability to interpret internal and external customer requirements and identify business needs