GE Gas Power Looking for Gas Power IT PMO/VMO Project Manager at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

Job Description Summary

Vendor Mgmt. Office facilitates and maintains the relationships between Internal IT teams and vendors/partners, negotiating contracts, creating standards for the vendors, and finding the best available vendors. Also, this position will lead, consult, and oversee overall relationship between GE and IT vendor(s) to ensure on-time delivery and quality outcome of any IT products that are supported or enabled by vendors, while improving end-user experience through continuous improvement and communication with internal and external stakeholders

Job Description

Vendor Management Process, Tools, and Data Governance

Develop and implement Vendor engagement process to ensure that requests are compliant with internal and external requirements, improve the input quality from requesters for sourcing review and support internal stakeholders to find the right vendor at the right time with right price

Help design and roll-out a vendor lifecycle management framework to oversee planning and risk assessment, sourcing, and selection of new vendors, manage data for vendor performance and manage vendor off-boarding

Improve internal process productivity and end-user experience ensuring on-time delivery of overall vendor engagement cycle time

Partner with sourcing team, develop and implement the VMO and Sourcing tool strategy to optimize contract document mgmt. and communication across Internal IT, Sourcing/VMO team and suppliers

Provide the clear visibility of overall contract data to stakeholders, and proactively identify potential risk, implement key controls

Develop reporting, support VMO Leader to facilitate Quarterly Business Reviews with key suppliers, and develop Annual Supplier Portfolio Summary reports

Vendor Engagement & Onboarding Management

Review and confirm Vender Engagement and Contract Purchase Order requests across Contractor Services, Hardware, Software from internal GE IT teams

Create the collaborative environment across the vendors, internal stakeholders such as Sourcing, Finance and Ops leaders, lead group of people from different teams to define common solution(s)

Support sourcing team to better negotiate vendor agreement terms varying in size, scope, and type by improving/ensuring solid input quality from stakeholders

Define and implement the process for identifying, onboarding, and managing new suppliers to meet business needs and company financial and diversity objectives

Vendor engagement process – End user & Vendor training

Evaluate existing processes and continually formulate/refine guidelines and supplier engagement and contracting practices

Deliver relevant training content to business stakeholders to ensure a consistent vendor relationship management framework

Basic Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or business-related degree program

Minimum 5 years Business Operations and Financial experience working with managed technical services

Minimum 2 years in Information Technology sourcing or vendor management

Desired Characteristics/Technical Expertise:
Program management background to develop and manage schedules, identify, and manage risks, manage scope and timelines by mitigating constraints/blockers

Technical background to solve complex technical problems, design solutions, make technical trade-off decisions, and work closely with teams to drive implementation

Advanced knowledge of operations, processes, and tools; understanding of change management, knowledge management and project management concepts

Understand key cross-functional concepts that impact the organization; is aware of business priorities and organizational dynamics

Business Acumen:
Excellent problem solving and critical thinking ability with strong understanding of Agile methods

Demonstrates the initiative to explore alternate technology and approaches to solving problems

Skilled in breaking down problems, documenting problem statements and estimating efforts

Has the ability to analyze impact of technology choices

Skilled in negotiation to align stakeholders and communicate a single synthesized perspective to the scrum team

Balances value propositions for competing stakeholders

Demonstrates knowledge of the competitive environment

Leadership:
Demonstrated leadership skills with ability to influence outcomes and organize teams to attain shared goals

Ability to manage and solve for complex business problems and priorities

Influences through others; builds direct and “behind the scenes” support for ideas

Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team

Personal Attributes:
Able to work under minimal supervision

Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity

Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility

Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members

Shows ability to effectively delegate work

About Us

GE 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.

Disclosure of your Gender or Sexual orientation is completely Voluntary and not mandatory.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No