Lead Strategic Sourcing Specialist in Rugby

GE Vernova’s Power Conversion business provides electrification systems that are critical to customers’ power and energy needs for their high-performance applications. We work with some of the world’s major energy, maritime and industrial organizations, helping to enable a transition to energy efficiency and decarbonization, including through our specialist motors, drives and control technologies.

Job Description

Please note: The applicant must be a sole national British citizen and have a valid UK passport, and holds, or is eligible to obtain, UK security clearance to SC level to be considered for this role. Reporting to the Senior Sourcing Manager, you will serve as the Lead Strategic Sourcing Specialist within our Naval business unit. You will hold full accountability for the end-to-end sourcing process for assigned direct and indirect commodities—including tooling and facilities. You will drive competitive advantage through proactive supplier management, strategic selection, and performance optimization, ensuring all activities align with both local requirements and global commodity strategy. You need to be able to drive as this role requires to work between sites based in Rugby and Leicester.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Sourcing and Commodity Management: Formulate and execute robust commodity strategies based on historical data, project demand, and market intelligence. Lead sourcing board reviews to align with business objectives.
• Supplier Performance and Development: Lead supplier selection, onboarding, and development in collaboration with Quality teams. Manage supplier performance against defined quality, cost, delivery, and risk metrics, conducting regular reviews to foster strategic relationships.
• Commercial and Financial Excellence: Drive cost-out, deflation, and cash-flow targets while negotiating the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Perform detailed cost breakdown analysis and lead contract negotiations in partnership with Legal.
• Risk Mitigation and Quality Assurance: Manage risk mitigation plans and drive low Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ) metrics. Collaborate with Quality and Warranty teams to ensure supplier support for product resolution and continuous process improvement.
• Bid Support and Integration: Support bidding teams with RFQs to ensure competitive TCO and lead times, leveraging ‘Make vs. Buy’ analysis to win new business.

Essential Candidate Requirements

• Experience within a technical or engineering manufacturing environment.
• CIPS accredited or equivalent professional qualification.
• Proven ability to formulate sourcing strategies, lead contract negotiations, and conduct ‘Make vs. Buy’ assessments.
• Strong analytical capabilities with the ability to influence at all stakeholder levels, including senior leadership.
• Proficiency in SAP, MS Office Suite, and Power BI.
• Security & Citizenship: You must be a sole British national, hold a valid UK passport, and have the ability to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (SC) to the required level.
• Location: Ideally you will work on a hybrid basis, 2 days a week in Rugby, 2 days a week in Leicester and one day a week at home.

Desirable Characteristics

• Experience within the a technical, electrical engineering or defence sectors.
• Familiarity with cyber security requirements in a supply chain context.
• A hands-on, team-oriented approach with the ability to manage competing priorities in a high-demand environment.

What We Offer

At GE Vernova, we invest in your long-term success and wellbeing through a comprehensive, flexible benefits package designed to support what matters most to you.

• Competitive compensation
• A performance-related bonus
• Flexible pension with a 10% employer contribution
• Employer-funded private health insurance
• Income protection
• Life assurance
• 26 days of holiday, plus bank holidays
• Through the "Flex Choice" programme, you can take advantage of corporate benefits such as buying and selling holiday, a cycle-to-work scheme, financial planning, critical illness insurance, personal accident cover, dental cover, the option to add family to a private health scheme, and travel insurance.

Why Join Us?

Join us at a pivotal time as we modernise our manufacturing capability and shape the future of quality across our Rugby operation. This is an opportunity to influence strategy, lead meaningful change, strengthen digital capability, and make a lasting impact on the performance, reliability, and integrity of products used in critical applications worldwide.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different...we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, "GE," in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. "Ver" / "verde" signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. "Nova," from the Latin "novus," nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.