GE - Sourcing/Commodity Manager

Essential Responsibilities

- Identify and understand the winning price/Best Cost for commodities in the Bought out Items, Civil, ETC, insourced components, Logistics etc

- Work with Project Manager and Engineering to define /Optimize the BOQs and work with local and Global Commodity leaders, get the most competitive prices available on time that would enable GE to win the tender

- Work with Supplier quality teams to ensure all required audits and pre-approvals are in place for the suppliers and commodities involved in the tender.

- Ensure that the GE preferred suppliers are considered for the tendering and work with a commercial team to get customer acceptance on them.

- Create a strong operating rhythm with RCL / GCL / project buyers and supplier quality team to ensure the price availability and supplier approvals on time.

- Partner with the commodity team and engineering to lead the supplier negotiations for strategic cost improvement based on the cost position to win the tender.

- Work with engineering team to dive cost optimization ideas on all key commodities and coordinate with commodity managers to get them executed through suppliers

- Create cost synthesis against target prices for direct material and other sourcing related items and work with Project commercial teams and Commodity managers and leadership team to meet the targets and timelines

- Drive strategic initiatives such as pay term improvement, Sole source reduction, Localization, Supplier rationalization, Lead time reduction, OTD improvement etc through early engagement with commodity buyers, engineering, and quality teams

- Connect with Global teams to understand the overall business plan, create visibility on tenders happening at different location and create BCC sourcing opportunities

- Comply with QMS and compliance requirements, GE Contracting policies and integrity guideline

- Identify and execute pre-bid tie-up opportunities that would help in cost improvement both at Tendering as well as at execution stage

- Work with cross-functional team to identify and execute standardization of commodities, localization, simplification of process etc.

- Work with OTR team to ensure margin improvement on the tenders at execution state.