Senior Sourcing Manager

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Job Description Summary

The Senior Sourcing Manager owns strategy and execution for a defined commodity across multiple sites/programs. The role delivers Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC) by building multi-year category strategies, optimizing the supplier base, negotiating long-term agreements, and mitigating risk to ensure continuity of supply and competitiveness.

Job Description

Role Responsibilities

• Category strategy and roadmap: Develop a short- and long-term commodity strategy tied to demand forecasts, technology roadmaps, Make/Buy, and should-cost; segment spend and define value levers.
• Supplier portfolio optimization: Rationalize/dual source the supply base, qualify new suppliers, and drive supplier development to improve capability, capacity, and quality.
• Cost productivity and TCO: Build should-cost models, run clean-sheet analysis, leverage market indices, and deliver annual cost savings while protecting quality and delivery.
• Risk management
• Quality and delivery performance
• NPI and lifecycle management: Ensure sourcing readiness for NPIs and ramps; manage transitions, tooling/fixtures, obsolescence, and end-of-life strategies.
• Stakeholder leadership: Align with Engineering, Quality, Operations, Finance, Legal, and Program teams; run governance cadences and executive readouts.
• Compliance and ethics: Uphold export control, trade, anti-corruption, EHS, and data privacy requirements; ensure audit-ready documentation.
• Continuous improvement: Standardize processes, deploy KPI dashboards, and drive kaizen to reduce cycle times and variability.
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, and/or Business, from an accredited college or university with a minimum of 4 years Sourcing Commodity and/or Category Management experience or a high school diploma and with a minimum of 5 years Sourcing Commodity and/or Category Management experience
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Strategic sourcing/category management with multi-site/global scope
• Proven delivery of cost productivity, supplier performance improvement, and risk mitigation
• Expertise in negotiations, contracts, and TCO/should-cost analysis
• Familiarity with quality systems (e.g., AS9100, PPAP/FAI) and export/trade compliance
• Proficiency with ERP/MRP, eSourcing tools, and analytics (Excel/BI)
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication
  
  

The base pay range for this position is 149,000.00 - 225,000.00 USD Annual. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, education, and skill set. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on a percentage of your base salary/ commission based on the plan. This posting is expected to close on December 31, 2025

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.

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 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 Aerospace 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).

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

• This is a remote position
  
  

GE Aerospace 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.

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