Sourcing Manager Job Job in New York, New York US

Sourcing Manager Job

The Sourcing Manager will demonstrate 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 areas of expertise, be involved in long-term planning, and contribute to the overall business strategy. In this role, you will: Essential Responsibilities - Develop, plan, and manage programs to meet GE purchasing commitments in Sourcing - Manage the complete purchasing and contract administration functions as required to meet program commitments - Develop sourcing strategy targets on quality, price, delivery, and service necessary to meet requirements - Implement and maintain a quality improvement process targeting reduction in product variation and product losses using key management tools - Collaborate with manager in setting realistic and challenging operational goals, and contribute to their accomplishment - Periodically prepare and implement supporting work plans - Manage Buyer / Contract Administrators in fulfilling purchasing commitments and organize the appropriate program plans - Provide for the evaluation of vendor quotations utilizing appropriate negotiation and purchasing analysis techniques and implementation of proper contracts with emphasis on quality, price, delivery, and service necessary to meet requirements - Provide for evaluation of suppliers capabilities and identification of appropriate items to buy - Provide support to GE Marketing and Sales in their proposal efforts - Lead commodity Sourcing with accountability over direct / indirect buy, and cost reduction targets - Develop, implement and lead overall supplier strategy for commodity area, including simplification, ensuring sourcing process integrity, and optimize productivity, quality and fulfillment - Set sourcing strategy and lead a team with strong process responsibility to develop complex and comprehensive supplier / buyer contractual relationships to meet the business needs - Ensure supplier compliance with regulatory and reputation requirements - Partner with Supplier Quality to drive quality initiatives for Sourcing - Be responsible for people management activities including recruiting, performance management, compensation, and organizational structure Qualifications/Requirements: - Bachelor s Degree from an accredited university or college - Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Sourcing position ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS : - Ability and willingness to travel as required Additional Eligibility Qualifications GE will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen. Desired Characteristics - Strong oral and written communication skills - Strong interpersonal and leadership skills - Ability to cope with multiple complex situations daily - Knowledge of GE Department of Defense procedures - Negotiation expertise Why join one great company when you can join many? We are more than 280,000 people with jobs that range from biochemist to finance specialist to wind energy engineer. We re passionate about making life better with new ideas and technologies. We re diverse, supporting our communities in more than 140 countries. Experience personal growth and competency development as part of the GE team. Around the world, we are helping build the healthcare, transportation and aviation of the new century. 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We have been servicing major customers of Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and General Dynamics for more than 40 years. Our staff of dedicated professionals has consistently applied creative engineering solutions to support mission critical requirements. These solutions have repeatedly been successfully applied with state of the art manufacturing techniques in both high and low volume production programs. Our site is housed in a 94,000 square foot facility, designed specifically to provide vertical integration of the broad range of capabilities required to give us control of all aspects of the design, development, manufacturing and test of products. These capabilities include: computer aided design center, transformer manufacturing capability, sheet metal fabrication department, fully integrated assembly and testing, as well as a complete environmental testing laboratory. 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