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Essential Responsibilities
- Lead team to meet the repair shop fulfillment needs and support final customer delivery commitment.
- Drive all supplier negotiations, across multiple commodities, to get the best terms for the business, and to achieve the best contractual conditions and payment terms while also ensuring internal customer satisfaction.
- Develop, plan, and manage programs to meet GE’s purchasing commitments in Sourcing.
- Define and improve Sourcing strategies at the country level, to ensure complying with all sourcing policies and procedures.
- Coach and manage sourcing team at repair shops, to develop a talent pipeline and lead people’s reviews.
- Work and resolve complex sourcing and supplier performance management issues.
- Balance both tactical execution with strategic initiatives necessary to drive cost reduction projects, and focus on cost-out.
- Present team’s accomplishments and results to the leadership in MENASA and global sourcing teams.
- Partner with the sourcing leader and the global sourcing, in meeting regional and global targets, and setting the right strategies/deflation for the different commodities.
- Conduct competitive analysis of vendor products and services to develop and implement shouldcost strategies.
- Understand supplier performance management and develops initiatives and strategy to execute on key business needs.
- Regularly advises management in the function and/or in the business and a key decision maker in regards to sourcing operations.
- Has major influence on small business unit or Family within a Function or P&L.
- Leads the compliance/sourcing culture, and drive compliance campaigns across the region.
- Leads complex and multidisciplinary projects to optimize the sourcing operations.
Role Summary/Purpose
- Leader of Repairs sourcing teams in MENASA sub-region and managing the local buyers.
- Act as the focal point for the sub-region GM, in regards to sourcing operations and rhythms.
- Be the liaison between the sourcing quality, strategic sourcing and digital initiatives sourcing, as well as work horizontally across the different functions to drive an efficient operational rigor, to meet the sourcing’s metrics
Job Requirements
Qualifications/Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college.
- Minimum of 5 additional years of experience in Sourcing Management.
- Proficiency in the English language
- Seasoned and deep understanding of concepts, approaches and methodology used.
- Deep expertise on global sourcing and market trends.
- Strong business acumen, and the ability to communicate across different levels in the organization.
Desired Characteristics
- Strong oral and written communication
- Proficiency in multiple languages is a plus skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Proven track record of leading multi-cultural teams.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
