Project Supply Chain Manager

GE Vernova is seeking a Project Supply Chain Manager for its Hydro Power North America division. This role is crucial in the fight against climate change, contributing to electrifying and decarbonizing the world. The manager will drive the execution of allocated project scope to maximize cash and margin, ensuring on-time delivery in compliance with contracts. Responsibilities include managing supply chain actions, budget, risks, and ensuring contractual requirements are met for equipment delivery. The role requires strong project management, operational effectiveness, and a team-oriented mindset.

Must Have

• Represent the Project within the Supply Chain organization and vice versa.
• Ensure full implementation of customer contractual requirements for equipment.
• Manage Supply Chain action progress plan for On Time Delivery, Quality, Cost, and compliance.
• Update, analyze, and manage key performance indicators and provide feedback.
• Manage detailed budget, risks, and opportunities related to the supply chain.
• Collaborate with Material Management, Planning, Sourcing, and Transport & Logistics teams.
• Ensure proper hand-over with ITO team for OTR execution.
• Organize working sessions to define project strategy and build EPP.
• Interact with Material Planner to ensure timely fabrication orders, purchase requisitions, and shipments.
• Regularly update key dates with the project team to secure OTD and cash flow.
• Monitor project budget for manufacturing, direct material, transport, and storage costs.
• Analyze slippages, consolidate information for project review, and ensure consistency of margin movement root causes.
• Timely update and review project risks and opportunities, deciding on actions for overall project performance.
• Assume full responsibility for allocated project scope delivery and report non-conformities and cost overruns.
• Drive EHS engagement and promote quality discipline and zero tolerance for delays.
• Bachelor to Master in Engineering, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or Project Management.
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in project management, manufacturing, sourcing/procurement/supply chain in a project context.

Good to Have

• Experience in project management: building milestone and resource plans, anticipating and managing risks & opportunities (Q, C, D, EHS), establishing operational rhythm and issue tracking.
• Clear thinker with ability to develop, communicate, and deliver clear strategy and action plans.
• Operational effectiveness, accountability, and urgency: result-oriented, managing customer expectations, and delivering effectively.
• Problem-solving skills: adapting to changing expectations, navigating conflicts, and balancing trade-offs.
• Team of Teams mindset: negotiation with all functions, engaging and creating consensus among partners and experts.
• Ability to work effectively across functions and manage in a global matrix environment.
• Good communication, convincing, and influencing skills.
• Continuous improvement: engaging direct and indirect teams to improve operations using Lean principles.
• Working technical knowledge of Hydro.
• Supply Chain: understanding operational process maps, recognizing customer requirements, influencing procurement/production, assessing and defining reaction plans for unforeseen events, developing long-term risk mitigation plans.
• Product Cost: recognizing deliverable metrics, predicting and justifying deviations from forecasts, supporting/influencing suppliers for competitive advantage.
• Design Integration + Manufacturing Engineering: influencing manufacturing process technology roadmap, developing close connection with Sourcing, Manufacturing, and Engineering.

Job Description Summary

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority. As a company whose technology is used to power ~25% of the world’s electricity, we take our responsibility seriously. GE Vernova is a purpose-built company leading a new era of energy – electrifying the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. We are accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life.

GE Vernova’s Hydro Power business designs, develops, manufactures, and services advanced technologies that harness the power of water to deliver reliable and sustainable power. For more than a century, hydropower has played an essential role in the North American and global electricity systems. Today, hydropower is the world’s largest source of renewable energy, and its pumped storage technology is the world’s largest source of energy storage. But to reach net-zero globally by 2050, we need to double the amount of hydro currently installed. Whether it’s through pumped storage, run-of-river, or by upgrading the existing installed base, hydropower will continue to be a cornerstone of North America’s energy future.

Do you have the energy to change the world? If you are ready to make a difference and usher in the new era of energy, come join us. You will get the opportunity to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry, work on cutting-edge technologies, and be part of a global team of ~75,000 people across more than 100 countries.

Drives execution of the allocated Project scope to maximize results with respect to Cash & Margin. Ensures on time delivery in compliance with the contract. Owns interface between Engineering, Planning and Supply chain.

Job Description

Role purpose

• Is the Project representative within the Supply Chain organization,
• Is the Supply Chain representative within Project team, representing during execution, all Supply Chain’ sub-functions such as Manufacturing, Sourcing, Procurement and Transport & Logistics
• Guarantee within the Supply Chain and beyond, the full implementation of the Customer’ contractual requirements for the Equipment to be delivered,
• Will be the conduit between the supply chain, engineering COE and the projects team to drive execution of the allocated Project
• Manage Supply Chain action progress plan to ensure On Time Delivery, Quality (NCR), Cost and contractual compliance
• Update, analyze and manage key performance indicator and ensure regular feedback of experience
• Manage detailed budget (CTC), risks and opportunities belonging to supply chain
• Work closely with the Material Management, Planning, Material Planner (make or buy), Sourcing and Transport & Logistic team. As well as with all project team members, under the lead of the project director

Essential responsibilities

• Ensure hand-over with ITO team to properly start OTR execution (costing files, ITO EPP, Cost hypothesis and related industrial scheme),
• Perform working sessions with all other functions at project start, to settle project strategy, taking into account procurement strategy plan and to building EPP. As well as regular review along execution to ensure implementation as planned.
• Interact with Material Planner in order to guarantee that the fabrication order submission, Purchase Requisition creation, Purchase Order placement, shipment and day to day activities are well performed, to respect the project planning and all milestones/targets of the project
• Interact with project team to regularly update key dates and ensure that actions are deployed to secure OTD (planning) and cash (financials).
• Monitor project budget for the total cost of is related scope (Manufacturing, Direct material, transport, warehouse/storage)
• Analyze slippages issues for is related scope, consolidate information for project review and ensure the consistency of the root cause of margin movement.
• Timely update and review the risk and opportunity of the Project, evaluate and decide on action that benefits overall performance of the project
• Assume full responsibility for the delivery of the allocated project scope. Ensure then all non-conformities and cost overrun reporting.
• Drive EHS engagement, promote and enhance discipline toward quality and zero tolerance for delay.

Desired characteristics

Project Management experience: Build milestone and resource plan, anticipate and manage Risk & Opportunities (Q, C, D, EHS), builds operating rhythm and tracking mechanism for issues. Knows when to escalate issues and helps remove bottlenecks and barriers to progress. Includes total cost management of respective scope. Clear thinker with ability to develop, communicate, and deliver clear strategy and action plans

Operational Effectiveness, Accountability, & Urgency: Result oriented, manage customer expectations and effectively delivers in the spirit of the agreement. Problem solving: Able to pivot with changing customer expectations or unexpected events, navigate conflicts between contract profitability and customer satisfaction, balance trade-offs between time/efficiency vs. performance/need for more creative solutions.

Team of Teams mindset - Negotiation with all functions. Engage and create consensus between business partners and subject matter experts on taking action. Ability to work effectively across functions and manage in a Global matrix environment. Good communication, convincing and influencing

Continuous Improvement: Engages across the direct and indirect teams to improve operations and delivers for customers. Using of Lean principles and methodologies

Product Knowledge: Working technical knowledge of Hydro

Supply Chain: Production & Material control: Understand the operational process map. Able to recognize and communicate customer specific requirements, understands levers to influence procurement/production, assess and define reaction plans for an un-forecasted delivery, quality or operations event, develops long term plan to mitigate risks, improve OTD, and expedite opportunities to meet customer demands. Interfaces with planning.

Product Cost: Recognizes the deliverable metrics for the various business functions. Predicts, requests and provides rationale for deviations from forecasts. Support /influence suppliers to develop and execute resource, capacity, and technology plans which create a competitive advantage for GE. Design Integration + Manufacturing Engineering: Influences Manufacturing process technology roadmap, developing a close connection with Sourcing, Manufacturing (Advance Manufacturing) and Engineering (System Integrators)

Qualification & Requirements

• Bachelor to Master in Engineering or Business Administration or Supply Chain management or Project Management
• Minimum 3 to 5 year’ experience (LPB), coordination in project Management, Manufacturing, sourcing /procurement/ supply chain in project related context.

Organizational reporting

Reports to the Supply chain organization and equally part of the Project Director team(s)

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No