Productivity Integration Operations 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!

The Productivity Integration Operations Leader serves within the PSM Direct Procurement Cost-Collaboration Team to operationalize supplier productivity and value-creation initiatives across commodities.

The role translates enterprise strategy into execution through disciplined operating rhythms, shared metrics, and cross-functional alignment with Engineering, Supply Chain Quality, Finance, and Commodity Management. The leader enables commodity teams and key suppliers to deliver validated cost savings and total cost-of-ownership improvements without compromising safety or quality.

You will establish and run the operating system (cadence, dashboards, governance) for the Cost-Collaboration portfolio—driving transparent execution from idea through financial validation and sustainment.

Enterprise Integration, Metrics, and Cadence

• Serve as the operational integrator for the Cost-Collaboration portfolio across Direct Procurement commodities
• Define, deploy, and sustain standardized metrics, dashboards, and execution cadences aligned to SQDC and annual productivity targets
• Run a dedicated Productivity weekly operating review (WOR) and cross-functional huddles to drive decisions, problem solve, and ensure on-time milestones
• Partner with Finance to validate savings and ensure tie-out, timing, and sustainability tracking

Value Creation Enablement with Suppliers

• Orchestrate supplier-focused value levers: design-to-cost with Engineering, should-cost and commercial levers with Commodity Managers, and manufacturing/process improvements with Quality and suppliers
• Drive visibility to on-time execution of supplier source changes, onboarding, qualification, and with Commodity teams, Quality, and Engineering
• Drive pipeline health: ideation, feasibility and execution, with focus on flow into execution and on-time delivery of execution milestones

Collaboration and Stakeholder Leadership

• Align Commodity Managers, Engineering, Quality, and Finance around shared priorities, stage gates, and SLAs
• Maintain a single source of truth for the direct-procurement productivity portfolio (status, risks, actions, financials)
• Surface risks early, facilitate corrective actions, and escalate decisively to protect schedule and quality

Continuous Improvement and Operating Excellence

• Apply FLIGHT DECK, GE Aerospace’s proprietary lean operating model, to improve operational performance via process improvements
• Lead structured problem-solving aging WIP and high-impact blockers
• Standardize playbooks, templates, and visual management to improve predictability and throughput

Communication and Accountability

• Provide concise, data-driven updates to leaders and stakeholders
• Drive accountability through owner-based actions, dated commitments, and transparent metrics
• Ensure changes preserve safety and quality, while delivering measurable delivery and cost improvements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing/Operations, Industrial Management, Supply Chain, or related field
• Minimum 5 years in industrial/manufacturing/operations/supply chain or military procurement/logistics environment

• 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 document, plan, market, and execute programs.
• Established project management skills.

GE Aerospace offers comprehensive benefits and programs to support your health and, along with programs like Health Ahead, your physical, emotional, financial and social wellbeing. Healthcare benefits include…