Senior Commercial Operations Turbo Machinery Solutions at GE Oil & Gas

Posted on Mon 13th Oct, 2014 - www.hotnigerianjobs.com --- (0 comments)

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GE Oil & Gas is recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: Senior Commercial Operations Turbo Machinery Solutions

Job Number: 1997778
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Role Summary/Purpose:
  • The candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy to build the Commercial Operations function for Turbomachinery Solutions in the SSA region, starting in Nigeria.
Essential Responsibilities:
  • The Commercial Manager 4 demonstrates accountability for functional, business, and broad company objectives. In this role you will integrate and develop processes that meet business needs across the organization, manage complex issues within functional area of expertise, be involved in long-term planning, and contribute to the overall business strategy.
  • Responsible for all aspects of contract management, including proposal development, risk management and mitigation, specification compliance, scope development, transactional pricing, customer negotiations, customer communications and issue resolution
  • Lead the transactional deal process having the ability to structure creative, commercially and technically sound quality deals as well as fully manage associated contractual issues that arise over the life of the project
  • Provide leadership during the deal review process to ensure that all technical risk points, risk mitigation, and business risk acceptance levels are properly incorporated in the development of the scope, cost and proposal wording
  • Interface with the Region Sales teams to develop commercial strategies and solutions that will meet customer requirements as well as meet or exceed business goals
  • Coordinate the output of proposals to insure the production schedule dates are met and that a quality proposal is issued to the customer
  • Meet order budget, proposal timeliness (VTW), cycle time, hit Rate / win Rate, DPMO reduction and project profitability
  • Develop appropriate Terms and Conditions for standard Customer proposals based on Risk / Reward Analysis
Qualifications/Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college
  • At least 5 additional years of commercial experience with the ability to structure creative deals for customer solutions, negotiate contracts, and deal effectively with customers
Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
Desired Characteristics:
  • Prior experience in sales, commercial finance, contract negotiation and execution is preferred
  • Strong business acumen
  • Knowledge of how transactions affect the business model (both GE and customer)
  • Knowledge of legal aspects and implications of contracts, terms and conditions, negotiation, etc to allow constructing contracts with minimizing risk
  • Industry knowledge / competitive landscape understanding at a transaction level
  • Ability to influence and lead cross functional teams
  • Six Sigma training is preferred
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
Application Closing Date
Not stated.

Method Of Application
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