Supplier Account Manager People Leader

Job Description Summary

The Supplier Account Manager (SAM) People Leader will lead a team of Supplier Account Managers responsible for ensuring hardware order coverage for future demand and driving effective supplier engagement on existing orders within the commodity. This leader sets the strategic direction for supplier account health, oversees execution of long-term agreement (LTA) action plans, and provides guidance on non-LTA negotiations and deal reviews. The role is accountable for establishing and managing robust routines for daily triage and resolution of supplier issues, while ensuring strong supplier relationship management and alignment to commodity strategy. The SAM People Leader will partner closely with the Procurement Operations Center, commodity supplier teams, CPMs, and other cross-functional stakeholders to enable timely, reliable execution of strategic and process-focused procurement activities and to deliver on safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives.

Job Description

Role Responsibilities:

• Manages a team of professionals. Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise within buying/procurement.
• Requires commercial awareness and demonstrated commodity management and experience with large and complex supplier accounts and procurements.
• Accountability for partnership with transactional operation partners (i.e. the Procurement Operations Center, POC) who are performing procurement-related activities on your supplier accounts
• Leads and oversees the team's execution of supplier selection, proposals and quotes, quote analysis, negotiation, business approvals, supply awards, and contract authoring for parts procured outside of long-term agreements, stepping into high-impact or escalated situations as needed.
• Owns overall supplier order health across the team's portfolio of supplier accounts, setting strategy, reviewing health metrics, and directing the team on priorities and risk mitigation actions.
• Ensures the team partners effectively with supplier teams and procurement operations to meet all compliance requirements for sourcing and procurement activities, establishing standard work and controls to sustain compliance.
• Establishes and manages effective routines for triaging supplier questions, issues, and requests across assigned supplier accounts, ensuring timely resolution by the team and personally managing escalated or sensitive matters.
• Sponsors and prioritizes projects related to part procurement and technical changes requiring supplier engagement, assigning project leadership within the team and ensuring cross-functional alignment and timely execution.
• Maintains and shares market awareness and an in-depth understanding of key business drivers to shape commodity and supplier account strategies, guiding the team's supplier selection and negotiation approaches.
• Leads and facilitates ideation of contractual and commercial solutions to improve contract performance and total cost of ownership, reviewing and approving key proposals developed by the team.
• Applies technical knowledge, collaboration, and sound judgment to guide the team in resolving complex issues, serving as the escalation point for more challenging or strategic problems.
• Provides formal leadership, coaching, and development to Supplier Account Managers, including onboarding, skills development, and ongoing feedback to build team capability.
• Sets clear performance expectations for the team, manages performance and accountability, and routinely handles sensitive and high-visibility issues with suppliers and internal stakeholders on behalf of the organization.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university or a high school diploma/GED with a minimum of 4 years Sourcing/Buying/Procurement or relevant Supply Chain role experience + minimum of 5 years Sourcing/Buying/Procurement or relevant Supply Chain role experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated influential or direct people leadership.
• Acts with humility, seeks perspective of others, and creates an inclusive culture
• Delivers with focus on key business objectives, working across large matrixed organizations
• Leads with transparency to reach the best mutual outcomes for GE and GE partners
• Experience negotiating contracts with external suppliers
• Demonstrated ability in leveraging creative commercial solutions
• Demonstrated ability to build strong internal and external relationship
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• 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
• Role may require up to 10% travel

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like HealthAhead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage; access to a Health Coach from GE Aerospace; and the Employee Assistance Program, which provides 24/7 confidential assessment, counseling and referral services. Retirement benefits include the GE Aerospace Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and company retirement contributions, as well as access to Fidelity resources and planning consultants. Other benefits include tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability insurance, life insurance, and paid time-off for vacation or illness.

GE Aerospace (General Electric Company or the Company) and its affiliates each sponsor certain employee benefit plans or programs (i.e., is a "Sponsor"). Each Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, amend, suspend, replace or modify its benefit plans and programs at any time and for any reason, in its sole discretion. No individual has a vested right to any benefit under a Sponsor's welfare benefit plan or program. This document does not create a contract of employment with any individual.

Compensation Grade

SPB2

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

Additional Information

GE Aerospace offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE Aerospace is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE Aerospace will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes