Supplier Account Manager Leader

Job Description Summary

Are you ready to see your future take flight? At GE Aerospace, we are advancing aviation technologies for today and tomorrow. Your work will contribute to the production of advanced jet engines, components, and integrated systems that power commercial and military aircraft. You'll be part of a team that embraces your drive, your curiosity, and your unique ideas and perspectives. Most importantly, you'll share in our pride and purpose that affects the lives of millions around the world!

• 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.
• Role may require up to 10% travel

• 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

• 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…