Commercial Business Development Leader - Americas

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova is focused on bringing together technologies and expertise to help solve the toughest power system challenges, accelerating the global transition to a more resilient and reliable grid.

The Enterprise Commercial BD is a senior leadership position that reports directly into the Americas General Manager. In this role, you will lead large‑scale commercial growth initiatives that span across our region and across product lines, jointly with our wider commercial organization. You will be accountable for driving long‑term growth, delivering current fiscal year targets, and building the pipeline 2‑3 years out.

The successful candidate will manage the non‑technical business disciplines to include tender strategy, pricing and commercial/legal negotiations of large enterprise deals, translating the GridOS journey to customer outcomes. In addition, the candidate will drive standardization within the region in alignment to global initiatives.

The ideal candidate will be a motivated and proven leader who can inspire a diverse, cross‑functional team and can lead successfully with influence. You will have strong commercial expertise, as well as strategic leadership and change management skills to navigate through the transformation of a traditional long‑cycle project business to a value‑driven software business.

• Focus on creating a pipeline of revenue in future years (not necessarily in the current fiscal year).
• Contribute to the region goals for orders (plus cash/profitability) and be accountable for regional targets.
• Responsible for the forecast management for the deals in scope.
• Ensure alignment of short‑term business execution to long‑term commercial strategic growth plan.
• Develop growth and expansion plans for key signature and target accounts by adoption of our GridOS roadmap and customer account plans.
• Participate in account planning sessions ensuring GridOS journey is mapped with clear enterprise‑wide deals identified.
• Drive Enterprise deals and planning with key customers to ensure a consistent pipeline of opportunities in future years.
• Engage customers in POCs on key offerings, so that revenue generating contracts can follow in future years after the POC.

• Drive and/or support business development actions with support from the wider commercial teams from the early stages of identifying opportunities.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams (namely Sales, Tech Sales, Comm Ops, Services, Product Management, and Engineering) to structure and deliver winning proposals.
• Lead deal reviews in accordance with underlying delegation of authority, up to ESW corporate level.
• Identify & structure resources to support tender preparation and submission.
• Provide hands‑on leadership for the deals you are following and support development of high‑performing ITO teams.

• In conjunction with sales and Comm Ops, drive the clarification and customer discussions of enterprise offers.
• Lead the deal negotiation process for signature accounts and key selected targets.
• Support OTR team with partner strategy and negotiations.

• Owner of end‑to‑end Enterprise Deal process in Americas region for identified deals.
• Ensure standardization of processes and methodology within the region and across the globe.
• Support improving regional operating metrics, such as productivity, proposal throughput, cost accuracy, or cycle time measures.
• Ensure continuous & effective communication between all stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.
• Strong business and commercial acumen. Purpose‑led, value‑driven leader with a track record of delivering orders growth with 10+ years of leadership experience in commercial, project delivery and sales.
• Experience with software products and services.
• Ability to direct complex daily activity of multiple work streams, focused on issue resolution.
• A good understanding of contract management principles, the ability to manipulate and shape deals and formulate.
• Willin…