Job Description Summary

The Executive, Indirect Sourcing will lead a global team of approximately 70 people managing $4.5B in Indirect spend and 4,000+ suppliers. The team is responsible for category management including category strategy development, strategic sourcing, supplier management, contracting, sustainability, and demand management. The categories in scope are all Indirect categories including Professional Services, Marketing, Logistics, Packaging, MRO, Capital & Construction, Facilities Management, Utilities, Travel & Expense, Meetings, Fleet, and HR Services (excludes IT). This individual will report directly to the Chief Procurement Officer and sit on the Sourcing & Supplier, Quality, and Development Leadership Team.

Job Description

Executive – Indirect Sourcing

The Executive, Indirect Sourcing will lead a global team of approximately 70 people managing $4.5B in Indirect spend and 4,000+ suppliers. The team is responsible for category management including category strategy development, strategic sourcing, supplier management, contracting, sustainability, and demand management. The categories in scope are all Indirect categories including Professional Services, Marketing, Logistics, Packaging, MRO, Capital & Construction, Facilities Management, Utilities, Travel & Expense, Meetings, Fleet, and HR Services (excludes IT). This individual will report directly to the Chief Procurement Officer and sit on the Sourcing & Supplier, Quality, and Development Leadership Team.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Building the vision and execution of the strategy for the Indirect Sourcing organization that will include the go to market sourcing roadmap, risk management plan, savings delivery, sustainability plan, supplier management program, tail management, and customer satisfaction metrics

• Owning category management strategy and execution across all Indirect categories excluding IT. Creating sourcing strategies that will drive a competitive advantage for GE HealthCare for the Indirect categories of spend (excludes IT) and delivering 5-7% of savings.

• Overseeing a team of Business Engagement Leaders who are assigned to GE HealthCare’s core businesses to understand the business need, monitor spend, identify savings opportunities, ensure that sourcing strategies are driving value, and assist with demand management.

• Building strong relationships with senior business partners by helping them deliver goals and objectives, including delivering material improvements on quality, price, and service.

• Leading a demand management program that brings visibility of the indirect spend to business partners

• Owning the company policies that are related to Indirect Sourcing

• Leveraging the new process that will be rolled out for managing tail spend and back-office support

• Driving the Lean strategy and execution of continuous improvement across Indirect Sourcing

• Leading a large team of strategic category leaders, including managing talent development and performance management

• Overseeing Supplier Management for Indirect Sourcing including the supplier segmentation and program execution

• Owning the operational metrics/dashboards for Indirect Sourcing

• Keeping up with industry trends that may influence Indirect Sourcing

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, or Finance

• Minimum 15 years Sourcing (Procurement), Supplier Management, or operations experience

• Deep category and domain knowledge in the Indirect categories

• Extensive people leadership experience including leading large teams with broad priorities

• Experience managing global supplier relationships

• Proven experience with establishing and executing a strategy/vision and strong influencing across functions

• Proven ability to effectively communicate at an executive level internally and with the supply base

• This position is to be based in the US, in the eastern or central time zone

• Required travel up to 15%

Desired Characteristics:

• Demonstrated capacity to execute on complex tasks in a timely manner

• Ability to lead change management

• High learning agility

• Strong leadership skills with clear global perspective and understanding of factors impacting the GE HealthCare businesses and our suppliers.

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.

• Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Established project management skills.

For U.S. based positions only, the pay range for this position is $224,000.00-$336,000.00 Annual. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The specific compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills, qualifications, experience and location. In addition, this position may also be eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). GE HealthCare offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.

GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights_10_20.pdf) . 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 HealthCare 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 drug screen (as applicable).

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

Application Deadline: September 20, 2024