Senior Supplier Account Manager

Job Description Summary

The Supplier Account Manager ensures hardware order coverage for future demand and leads supplier engagement regarding existing orders for owned suppliers within a commodity. Responsibilities include managing long-term agreement (LTA) execution action plans within the Commodity, leading non-LTA negotiations and deal reviews, and daily triage of supplier issues on current orders. Senior Supplier Account Managers will have additional responsibilities including Supplier Team Action Plan Ownership, supplier relationship management and CPM support. The role also involves cross-functional partnership with the Procurement Operations Center, the supplier team for your respective accounts, and other roles within the commodity and the organization to enable timely execution of strategic and process focused procurement activities.

Job Description

Site Overview:
GE Aerospace has an advanced engineering center located in İstanbul, Kartal, complemented by cutting-edge laboratories in Kocaeli, Gebze.
Our offices in İstanbul and Ankara provide essential support to commercial and defense engines across the country. Our highly skilled engineers at the Türkiye Technology Center contribute to GE Aerospace’s engineering work on indigenous programs, new engine programs, software development, and additive manufacturing, supporting the country’s position as an advanced aerospace hub. We are committed to a culture based on respect for people and provide professional growth opportunities for our employees. Join us and find an opportunity to shape the future of flight.

Role Overview:

• Responsible for progressing the activities of supplier selection, proposals and quotes, quote analysis, negotiation, business approvals, supply award, and contract authoring for parts procured outside of a long-term agreement.
• Accountable for strategic decision-making related to supplier order health for assigned supplier accounts
• Partners with supplier team and procurement operations to ensure compliance requirements are met for owned sourcing and procurement activities.
• Triages incoming supplier questions, issues, and requests for assigned supplier accounts
• Leads projects related to part procurement, or technical changes on parts requiring supplier engagement and support.
• Actively maintains market awareness and an in depth understanding of key business drivers to inform supplier selection
• Participates in ideation of contractual solutions to promote contract performance / total cost of ownership
• Utilizes technical knowledge, collaboration and judgement to solve problems
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience to provide coaching and training
• Conveys performance expectations and may handle sensitive issues with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Travel up to 25%
• The ideal candidate should have flexibility to travel frequently and work on-site in Eskisehir and Istanbul as required.

The Ideal Candidate:

The ideal candidate is a commercially astute and collaborative sourcing professional with strong supplier management, contract negotiation, and project leadership experience, who can drive strategic procurement decisions, build effective internal and external relationships, and deliver business results with transparency, analytical thinking, and a focus on total cost of ownership.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree from an accredited university or college.
• 7+ years of experience in Commercial Operations, Sourcing/ Procurement, Supplier Relationship Management, Sales, Supply Chain or Contract Management roles.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Additional Information:
GE Aerospace Türkiye offers you the following:

• Being part of a dynamic global team
• Hybrid working model opportunit
• Flexible benefit plan
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Health insurance with wide coverage including spouse and children
• Fitness Benefit
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Referral Program

At GE Aerospace, we have a relentless dedication to the future of safe and more sustainable flight and believe in our talented people to make
it happen. Here, you will have the opportunity to work on really cool things with really smart and collaborative people. Together, we will
mobilize a new era of growth in aerospace and defense. Where others stop, we accelerate.

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About Us

At GE Aerospace, we invent the future of flight, lift people up, and bring them home safely. We are a world-leading provider of jet engines, components, and integrated systems for commercial and military aircraft. At GE Aerospace, respect for people is core to our culture and commitment to FLIGHT DECK, our proprietary lean operating model. We attract, develop, and retain industry-leading talent from all backgrounds and cultivate communities where people are respected and empowered to reach their fullest potential. For the people of GE Aerospace, their work isn't just a job. It's their passion and purpose. We work and win as one team, accountable to each other and our customers, and we are always finding a better way to climb higher together. We were meant to fly.