Operations Excellence Leader

Job description / Role

About Us:
GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Role Summary:
The Operations Excellence leader will manage the optimization of processes across the MENATI region for BHGE. He/She will work horizontally across the Product Companies to align and optimize processes and define a common set of KPIs to ensure Business growth. He/She will enable to Operations Support team to engage with key Business Stakeholders deliver on Targets and Priorities established by the team.

Essential Responsibilities:
The Operations Excellence Leader will be responsible for:
- Ownership of the Operations Support process for the MENATI region
- Creation of a unified and competent procurement organization, set up for success
- Establishing a set of internal and external KPIs to adequately measure the health of the business
- Develop long term strategy for Indirect procurement savings using all available resources
- Enable visibility to impact Operations Support team activities on each Product Company and GeoMarket
- Execute on Indirect Sourcing synergy and savings targets
- Develop Operations Excellence playbook for the region
- Work to ensure processes are compliant to BHGE requirements and gaps are highlighted to the leadership team
- Support the Regional Integration team with setting Synergy targets and reporting on progress
- Communicate clearly and effectively to Key Business Stakeholders demonstrating the value add
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, preferably Engineering or Supply Chain Management
- Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
- Willingness and ability to travel to required GE sites and suppliers.
- Experience in supply chain and manufacturing operations with proven track record of results using Lean methodologies

Requirements

Desired Characteristics:
- Demonstrated ability to influence and drive cross functional cultural change.
- Executive level presentation skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Master's degree in Business or other related area
- Demonstrated ability to excel in all customer service areas
- Responsible for meeting customer/business needs

Locations: United Arab Emirates; Dubai

About the Company

GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company, dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and oil and gas, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 300,000 people worldwide.

GE's Oil & Gas business is a leader in the development and delivery of advanced product and service offerings for the global oil and gas industry. As a consequence of the rapid expansion of its technology base, GE's Oil & Gas is capable of addressing the largest and most complex engineering and application challenges entirely from its own worldwide resources. So whether it's the world's largest LNG compression trains, re-injection of high sulfur gas, enhancing the safety and productivity of the world's oil and gas pipelines, or equipment for the production of oil and gas from harsh environments, GE is leading the charge.