Supplier Development Manager

General Electric (GE)

UAE

Ref: KP132-519

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Role Summary:

About Us:

Baker Hughes, a GE company (NYSE:BHGE) is the world's first and only fullstream provider of integrated oilfield products, services and digital solutions. Drawing on a storied heritage of invention, BHGE harnesses the passion and experience of its people to enhance productivity across the oil and gas value chain.

BHGE helps its customers acquire, transport and refine hydrocarbons more efficiently, productively and safely, with a smaller environmental footprint and at lower cost per barrel. Backed by the digital industrial strength of GE, the company deploys minds, machines and the cloud to break down silos and reduce waste and risk, applying breakthroughs from other industries to advance its own.

With operations in over 120 countries, the company's global scale, local know-how and commitment to service infuse over a century of experience with the spirit of a startup - inventing smarter ways to bring energy to the world.

Role Summary:

Responsible for developing and implementing the supplier strategy for sourcing products and services for the Chemicals Commodity. Strategically, the role requires driving and developing comprehensive plans for establishing synergy and supporting strategic tenders through strong technical/market expertise

Essential Responsibilities:

- Implements global sourcing strategies and initiatives to help improve the supply base.
- Supplier qualification - Drive the supplier qualification process, ensures the supply base is, and remains fully qualified and compliant. Schedules, monitors and approves supplier part, material and service qualification activities, Supplier Product Qualification Process, capacity analysis, and verification in accordance with BHGE project timing and milestones
- Coordinate efforts from engineering and quality resources from different plants
- Supplier assessment & Supplier audit: Plans and conducts supplier assessments, reporting findings and opportunities for improvement and verifies effective closure of assessment findings
- Supplier development: Develop and support suppliers to achieve ongoing conformance with BHGE requirements and focuses on continuous improvement in quality
- Supplier performance monitoring: Monitors and reports supplier performance (KPIs), quality issues, and development actions, Performance Evaluation (SPE), On Time Delivery (OTD) and quality KPIs
- Collaborating with key business stakeholders to ensure sourced material and services meet the needs of the business.
- Supporting Supplier Quality Program, ensuring supplier compliance with FDA, EHS, transportation and other regulatory and reputation requirements.
- Partner with other Engineering, Quality and Strategic Sourcing managers in the respective product lines to ensure alignment and sharing of best practices; disseminate best practices to category team and drive continuous learning

Requirements

Qualifications/Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Supply Chain Management
- Proficient in Oil Field Chemicals
- Able to lead and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Able to liaise with peers and senior leaders both within and across business units
- Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Comfortable making presentations to senior leadership
- Proficient in financial, quantitative, and analytical skills
- Possesses strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills; track record capturing value and savings
- Strong project and internal relationship management skills, including stakeholder, timeline, and meeting management
- A flexible, dynamic, self-demanding and proactive individual; able to motivate him/herself and others
- Background in Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing and/or Materials Management especially in chemicals

Desired Characteristics:

- Oil & Gas industry experience
- Experience in Oilfield Chemicals Sourcing
- Previous experience in a Regional position

Locations:

Dubai, UAE

Baker Hughes, a GE company is an Equal Opportunity 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.

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.

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